Principal Engineer , VP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead design and engineering efforts with a customer-centric focus. This VP-level role emphasizes architecture, automation, security, and scalable platforms across banking environments.

You will oversee end-to-end delivery, drive CI/CD modernization, and mentor multi-disciplinary teams while aligning with regulatory requirements and business goals.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with architecture design and modernization.
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade platforms in heavy-regulated environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms, large-scale migrations, and DevOps transformations.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture models and roadmaps for applications to meet business and technical needs.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Provide governance of engineering designs focusing on scalability, security and reliability.
• Lead cross-functional teams and translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

Software architecture

DevOps

Leadership

CI/CD

Cloud migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Git

Jenkins

APIs

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 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 bring at least fifteen years of overall experience with expertise in designing, modernizing, and scaling enterprise-grade platforms, with deep expertise in banking, risk, and data-intensive environments. You'll need experience in large-scale cloud and platform migrations, drive CI/CD modernization initiatives, and leverage GenAI-assisted technologies to enhance engineering productivity and delivery outcomes.

You’ll also need experience in architecture strategy and technical decision-making, provide strong leadership across cross-functional teams, and consistently deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions within highly regulated environments while ensuring alignment with business and compliance requirements.

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

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 19/08/2026