Principal Engineer, Java, VP

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer in India to lead design and engineering with customer-centric solutions. You will contribute to architecture, governance, and the automation of build, test, and deployment processes within cross-functional teams.

You will work with Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native architectures in large-scale environments, driving performance, security, and reusable components across platforms and services.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Java, Spring Boot and enterprise application development.
• Significant leadership of software development teams in a matrix structure.
• Experience with DevOps, Agile, and automation of build/test/deploy.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern engineering and design solutions with end-to-end automation.
• Collaborate in platform/feature teams to design complex software and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps for reusable components.
• Design, test and implement production code with Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Enterprise application development

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Cloud-native architectures

Performance optimization

Tools

Sybase

PostgreSQL

Oracle Coherence

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.

You’ll also be:

• 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.

You’ll also need:

• 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