Principal Software Engineer - Vice Principal Level

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru seeks a Principal Engineer (Executive level) to lead architecture and engineering initiatives with a customer-centric focus. You’ll drive automation, scalable design, and robust software solutions across platforms and services, collaborating with enterprise architects and engineers to elevate the bank’s software capabilities.

You’ll guide end-to-end development, governance, and performance improvements while shaping technical strategies and roadmaps in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Strong background leading software development teams in matrix structures.
• Proven expertise in DevOps, Agile practices and API design.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern engineering solutions with focus on automation, security and performance.
• Lead platform/feature teams to design and engineer complex software and tooling.
• Develop architecture roadmaps across applications to meet business and technical needs.
• Write and test code using Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Team leadership

DevOps

Agile methodologies

API design

Automation

Tools

Git

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

Principle 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 prenciple 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
• 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
• 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: 26/08/2026

Experience Level Executive Level