Principal Engineer - Python, VP

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer in Gurugram to design and build customer-centric software with emphasis on performance, security and scalability. You will work with production-grade engineering teams, drive architecture decisions and promote automation across build, test, and deployment.

The role focuses on AI-enabled solutions, API design and platform engineering, while mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy within an agile, DevOps-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience implementing DevOps and Agile development processes.
• Strong focus on scalability, automation, virtualization, performance, security.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer software with customer-centric outcomes.
• Collaborate with architects to validate and leverage architectures in broader contexts.
• Develop architectures, roadmaps and reusable components across platforms.
• Apply Agile and DevOps practices to automate build, test and deployment.

Skills

Python

AI/GenAI

DevOps practices

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Tools

APIs

Distributed systems

Large Language Models

RAG

Observability

Security controls

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
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, with experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and production-grade applications, APIs, and distributed services
• Experience developing AI agents and GenAI solutions using Large Language Models , agent orchestration frameworks, tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering techniques
• Ability to productionise AI solutions with appropriate evaluation frameworks, observability, security controls, responsible AI guardrails, and human oversight mechanisms.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs