Principal Software Engineer - .NET Core

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

Job summary

NatWest Group in Gurugram invites a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with a customer-centric focus, working on .NET Core, C#, and ASP.NET within a modern architecture.

You will lead architectural decisions, drive end-to-end automation, and collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

This is a Vice President level role requiring 10+ years of software engineering and hands-on leadership in microservices and cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in Principal/Lead roles
• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices and micro-frontend architectures
• Strong expertise in the Microsoft stack: .NET Core/.NET, C#, ASP.NET, and DevOps practices

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end engineering solutions with focus on automation, resilience, security and performance
• Collaborate with architects to design platforms and services for scalable bank-delivered software
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps ensuring usability across products and domains
• Implement working code with Agile/DevOps methods and continuous delivery

Skills

Software leadership

Architectural design

DevOps collaboration

Microservices

Cloud awareness

Tools

.NET Core

C#

ASP.NET

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Principal Engineer, .NET Core, VP

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

Youll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the banks overall software engineering capability

Youll 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, youll 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. Youll 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. Well 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.

Youll 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

Youll 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, youll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

Youll also need:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least three years in a Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role
• Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices and micro-frontend architectures
• Strong expertise in the Microsoft technology stack, including .NET Core/.NET, C#, and ASP.NET
• Deep understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes with solid understanding of security, scalability, reliability, and performance considerations in cloud-native environments
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, including cloud architecture, deployment, and operational best practices

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 17/07/2026

Experience Level Senior Level .