Principal Software Engineer (.NET Core) - Vice President Level

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

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer (VP level) in Gurugram to drive customer-centric software architecture and engineering excellence. You will lead the design of scalable, secure banking platforms, collaborating with enterprise architects and product teams to deliver robust digital experiences.

You will apply DevOps practices, automate build, test and deployment, and mentor teams across enterprise initiatives, focusing on performance, resilience and innovation while engaging

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture design.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile development.
• Strong focus on scalability, automation and performance in large enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end engineering and design solutions emphasizing automation, resilience, security and performance.
• Collaborate in platform teams to design and engineer software for bank platforms, applications and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical needs across domains.
• Develop, test and deploy code using Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Architecture & design

Leadership

Agile & DevOps

Software performance

Communication

Tools

.NET Core

Angular

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 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:

• 10 or more years of experience in Architecture and Design, including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and enterprise application development
• Strong hands-on expertise in .NET Core, Angular, and database technologies
• Strong understanding of Agentic AI, including LLMs, AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, and AI coding tools
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills
• Proven experience working in large-scale enterprise environments and leading complex technology initiatives

Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 04/11/2026 Experience Level Executive Level