Principal Software Engineer - Vice President Level

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer (VP level) to drive architectural design, engineering excellence and customer-centric software delivery. You will shape platform and product architectures, lead engineering teams, and advance automation, testing and deployment practices across the bank’s software ecosystem.

You will collaborate with domain and enterprise architects, build scalable solutions, and contribute to a culture of high performance, security and reliability in a DevOps

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile frameworks.
• Strong leadership in matrix organisations and technical strategizing.
• Experience designing or implementing APIs and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define, govern and oversee end-to-end engineering solutions with emphasis on automation, resilience and performance.
• Collaborate within platform/feature teams to design complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical needs, ensuring usability across products.
• Design, develop, test and deploy code with Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture design

DevOps

Agile methodology

Automation

API design

RPA lifecycle

Leadership

Test-driven development

Performance optimization

Tools

Code repositories

Bug tracking tools

Wikis

CI/CD

Job description

Principal Engineer, 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.

• 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. We’ll also be looking for broad knowledge of the Agile manifesto and its principles, together with an understanding and experience of applying empirical process control. 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
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Experience of changing organisational, team or department mindsets and structure
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• Experience of the RPA automation lifecycle and good understanding of running and managing automation projects
• 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

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 20/10/2026

Experience Level Executive Level