Software Engineer, Associate Vice President

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

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru is seeking an AVP-level Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of high-performance, secure software across platforms. You will work in a feature team, mentor peers, and drive quality through automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

You will apply Python extensively, integrate with mainframe technologies such as DB2, VSAM, CICS, and contribute to DevOps initiatives, architecture discussions, and scalable automation across z/OS and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
• Strong Python programming expertise for scalable, reusable solutions.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Experience applying programming best practices for scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure software across platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and analysts to deliver complex software quickly.
• Design reusable mainframe plugins, modules, and environment-ready components.
• Build automation and tooling to improve environment stability and developer experience.

Skills

Python

Mainframe technologies

DevOps

CI/CD

Tools

DB2

VSAM

CICS

Batch processing

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Software Engineer. This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge. Day-to-day, you\'ll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority. It\'s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career. We\'re offering this role at associate vice president level.

What you\'ll do

In your new role, you\'ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You\'ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You\'ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
• Designing reusable mainframe-centric plug-ins, modules, templates, and environment-ready components to support provisioning, automation, and cross-platform consistency across z/OS and distributed systems
• Engineering reusable environment patterns and supporting artefacts that integrate core mainframe technologies with distributed and cloud platforms
• Working within feature or domain teams to implement repeatable mainframe-driven patterns and tooling that improve environment stability, scalability, and developer experience

The skills you\'ll need

You\'ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You\'ll also need:

• Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Strong Python programming expertise, developing scalable and reusable solutions while integrating with mainframe technologies such as DB2, VSAM, CICS, and batch processing environments
• Experience applying Python within DevOps, testing, and Agile environments, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and tooling for mainframe-integrated platforms
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance