Principal Engineer, UCX Platform, VP

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru seeks a Principal Engineer for the UCX Platform at VP level to shape software engineering with a customer-centric focus, delivering high-performance, secure solutions and end-to-end automation.

You will lead architecture, drive roadmaps, collaborate with feature teams to ship scalable systems, and mentor engineers in a DevOps/ Agile environment, including exposure to AI technologies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience designing and engineering scalable software solutions.
• Strong background in architecture, APIs, and end-to-end SDLC.
• Experience leading teams in a Matrix structure within DevOps/ Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop architecture models and roadmaps for scalable components.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Determine the design and delivery approach for the platform's software lifecycle.
• Lead solution design and provide governance for engineering initiatives.

Skills

Java

Microservices

AWS

DevOps

Technical leadership

API design

Cloud architecture

Agile

Python

AI tech exposure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Jira/Wiki tools

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, UCX Platform

• 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 be playing a major role in the 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 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.

You’ll also be:

• 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
• Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
• 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

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. You'll need at least fifteen years of experience in designing and engineering scalable software solutions with a strong focus on customer experience, accessibility, and internationalisation. You'll need experience in defining and delivering architecture roadmaps, lead solution design, and drive engineering excellence across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring automation, resilience, security, performance, scalability, and reusability.

You'll need to be hands-on with Java, microservices, AWS cloud technologies, and modern software design patterns while providing technical leadership and guiding teams to deliver complex enterprise platforms and services. Experience in solution architecture, team management, and end-to-end SDLC delivery is essential. Exposure to React, Python, and AI technologies, including Amazon Bedrock, agentic AI, RAG frameworks, and vector databases, will be highly advantageous.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• 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
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis