Principal Engineer, .NET Core, VP

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 10,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in India seeks a Principal Engineer at VP level to design and engineer software focused on customer outcomes, with performance, security and robustness at the core. You will shape architecture and collaborate with engineers, domain and enterprise architects to deliver innovative solutions.

You will drive end-to-end automation, governance and continuous improvement while partnering with platform teams to enable delivery across bank platforms, applications and services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Architecture and Design, including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and enterprise app development.
• Proven hands-on expertise in .NET Core and Angular with database technologies.
• Experience delivering in DevOps/Agile environments and implementing programming best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer software with customer outcomes as primary objective.
• Collaborate with architects to validate and leverage ideas within wider contexts.
• Automate build, test and deployment activities and promote software engineering discipline across the business.
• Define governance of engineering and design solutions focusing on automation, resilience, security, performance, scalability, and reusability.
• Work with platform/feature teams to design and engineer complex software and services for bank platforms.

Skills

DotNet Core

Angular

Database tech

LLMs

RAG

AI tooling

Stakeholder leadership

DevOps

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:

• 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