Principal Engineer, .NET Core, VP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Principal Engineer at VP level to design and engineer software with customer outcomes at the core. You will contribute to architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to raise the bank's software engineering capability.

As a Principal Engineer, you will work with software engineers on production and prototyping of innovations, engage with domain and enterprise architects, focus on automation of build, test and deployment, and

Qualifications

• Must have architecture and design experience in large-scale software systems.
• Hands-on expertise in modern tech stacks and cloud-native patterns.
• Demonstrable experience with DevOps practices and Agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software with a focus on customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with architects to validate and leverage architectures in wider contexts.
• Lead end-to-end automation for build, test and deployment and drive engineering discipline.

Skills

Architecture & design

Microservices

Event-Driven Architecture

Dot NET Core

Angular

AI tooling (LLMs, RAG)

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

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.

• 10 or more years of experience in Architecture and Design, including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and enterprise application development
• Strong hands‑on expertise in .NET Core, Angular, and database technologies
• Strong understanding of Agentic AI, including LLMs, AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, and AI coding tools
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills
• Proven experience working in large-scale enterprise environments and leading complex technology initiatives

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

18/10/2026