Principal Engineer, Java, VP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Principal Engineer in India to design and engineer software with a strong focus on customer outcomes and user experience. You will contribute to architecture and the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to elevate the bank’s software engineering capabilities.

You will lead with domain Architects to validate ideas, build automation for build/test/deploy, and drive scalable, secure enterprise solutions in a modern cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture.
• Experience implementing programming best practice around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
• Strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure.

Responsibilities

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations.
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains.
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

GCP

Kubernetes

DevOps

PostgreSQL

Oracle Coherence

Tools

Sybase

Performance tuning

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective

You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability

You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents

We’re offering this role at vice president level

What you’ll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You’ll be working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you’ll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• 12+ years of experience in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and enterprise application development within complex, large-scale environments
• Proven expertise in designing scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications, with a track record of solving complex business and engineering challenges
• Hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modernization of legacy enterprise platforms
• Strong experience working with Sybase and PostgreSQL databases, distributed caching technologies such as Oracle Coherence, and performance optimization of data-intensive applications
• Self-driven problem solver with strong ownership and analytical skills, capable of navigating ambiguity and delivering robust, scalable, and maintainable enterprise solutions

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

06/09/2026