Principal Engineer, .NET Core, VP

RBS; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with a customer-centric focus and high performance, security, and robustness in mind.

You will collaborate with architects and engineers to validate and leverage architectures across platforms, driving automation of build, test, and deployment activities while elevating software engineering practices within the organization.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture with DevOps/Agile practices.
• Expert understanding of market trends, technologies and tools; strong focus on scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability and performance.
• 10+ years of Architecture and Design experience including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture and enterprise app development.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and technical leadership skills.
• Proven experience in large-scale enterprise environments leading complex technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Create and govern end-to-end software solutions with emphasis on automation, resilience, security and performance.
• Collaborate with platforms and engineering teams to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms, apps and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps for components to meet business and technical requirements across products.
• Design, implement and test code using Agile methods and DevOps practices.

Skills

Architecture and Design

.NET Core, Angular, Databases

Agentic AI (LLMs, AI Agents, RAG)

Communication & Leadership

Enterprise-scale delivery 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.

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

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

18/10/2026