Principal Engineer, VP

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with a customer-centric focus and high performance. You will work with engineers and architects to validate architectures and deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will lead automation of build/test/deploy, drive DevOps practices, and shape cloud-native platforms on AWS. This role requires deep expertise in Java microservices, CI/CD pipelines and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering, design and architecture experience within a DevOps/Agile framework.
• Expert understanding of market trends, technologies and tools; experience with scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer software with a customer-centric, high-performance focus.
• Collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage architectures.
• Develop automation for build, test and deployment; promote software discipline.
• Define governance of engineering solutions emphasizing automation, resilience and security.
• Lead engineering teams and drive cross-functional decisions; oversee deployment strategies.
• Develop architecture roadmaps for applications and services; ensure reusable components.
• Design and implement APIs; translate product requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

AWS cloud

Java microservices

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Docker / Kubernetes

Automation scripting

Agile methods

Observability tools

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS ECS/EKS

Docker

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

• 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

• At least 10 years of hands‑on experience designing, operating, and scaling cloud‑native platforms on AWS, with strong knowledge of core services, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and production‑grade Java microservices
• Deep expertise in CI/CD and deployment automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline; strong experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS/EKS), multi‑environment management, and observability stacks such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams, influence stakeholders, and drive cross‑functional decisions, supported by strong scripting skills (Python, Bash/shell) and hands‑on ownership of deployment strategies and operational excellence
• 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