WOW - Principal Engineer, VP

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

Job summary

NatWest Group in India is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architectural design and engineering across the bank's software platforms. You will shape end-to-end solutions with a focus on scalability, security, and performance, while collaborating with stakeholder teams to deliver customer-centric outcomes.

The role emphasizes governance, automation and high-quality software delivery within an Agile/DevOps environment, guiding multiple platforms and services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture.
• Experience developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
• Demonstrable experience with scalable, automated, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Defining and creating architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements.
• Collaborating with feature teams to produce software rapidly and with high quality.
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all platform software throughout its life.
• Working with platform/feature teams as a contact for solution design considerations.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Microservices

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Tools

AWS

Job description

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 be playing a major role in the 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 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.

You’ll also be:

• 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
• Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
• 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

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’d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• 12-15 years of Java , J2EE technologies and microservice architecture
• AWS expert with hands on experience