Principal Engineer, VP

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai seeks a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the core objective. The role sits in the Engineering Centre of Excellence at VP level, focusing on end-to-end automation, resilience and scalability.

You will define architecture models, drive usable software across domains, and work with feature teams to deliver high-quality solutions at pace. Strong leadership and hands-on expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Fifteen years of extensive software engineering experience with distributed, real-time, high-throughput platforms.
• Proven programming best practices for scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability and performance.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of microservices, event-driven patterns, cloud platforms (AWS), Kubernetes, and modern API frameworks.
• Delivery experience in large-scale platform engineering or architectural leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee architecture models and roadmaps for applications and software components.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Set design and delivery approaches for the platform's software throughout its life.
• Work with platform/feature teams to design complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms.

Skills

Distributed systems

High performance/low latency

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Architecture leadership

Performance engineering

Observability

Tools

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Automation (CI/CD)

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 fifteen years of extensive experience in software engineering roles, with strong expertise in distributed systems and real‑time, high‑throughput, low‑latency platforms . We'd also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You'll also need:

• Deep hands‑on knowledge of microservices, event‑driven patterns, cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern API frameworks
• Proven delivery experience in large‑scale platform engineering or architectural leadership roles
• Strong understanding of performance engineering, resilience patterns, observability, and operational excellence
• Ability to influence at senior levels and lead without formal authority