Principal Software Engineer - Python

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

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer - Python, VP in India. This role focuses on designing and engineering software with customer outcomes at the core, shaping architecture and engineering excellence across the bank's platforms.

You will lead technical strategy, drive end-to-end automation, and collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions. Executive-level leadership is expected.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture within DevOps/Agile.
• Strong Python expertise and production-grade API/service design.
• Experience with AI/GenAI, LLMs, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end software solutions for scalable platforms.
• Collaborate with architects to align designs with business goals.
• Lead automation of build, test, and deployment processes.
• Mentor teams and promote DevOps practices.

Job description

Principal Engineer - Python, 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:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Python, with experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and production-grade applications, APIs, and distributed services
• Experience developing AI agents and GenAI solutions using Large Language Models , agent orchestration frameworks, tool integration, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering techniques
• Ability to productionise AI solutions with appropriate evaluation frameworks, observability, security controls, responsible AI guardrails, and human oversight mechanisms.
• 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

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 06/11/2026

Experience Level Executive Level