Principal Engineer, .NET Core, VP

Natwest Digitalx; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx seeks a Principal Engineer to drive customer-centric software engineering and architecture initiatives in a banking tech context. You will lead design efforts, influence across domains and advance capabilities through automation and modern engineering practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with enterprise architects, delivering scalable, secure solutions while shaping platform and product engineering roadmaps, at a VP-equivalent level.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Architecture and Design, including Microservices and enterprise app development.
• Expert in .NET Core, Angular and database technologies.
• DevOps and Agile software development experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience leading large-scale technology initiatives in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Create customer-focused outcomes through engineering and innovative solutions for existing and new challenges.
• Collaborate with software engineers and architects to validate and leverage architectures.
• Design, develop and automate build, test and deployment processes while promoting software engineering discipline.
• Provide governance of engineering and design solutions focusing on automation, resilience, performance and security.

Skills

.NET Core

Angular

Database technologies

DevOps & Agile

Technical leadership

Job description

Job Summary

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
• Youll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the banks overall software engineering capability
• Youll 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

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, youll 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.

Youll 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. Well 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

Skills and experience

Youll 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, youll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You'll also need:

• 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