WoW-Principal Engineer, VP

National Westminster Bank PLC; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Digital X in Bengaluru invites applications for a Principal Engineer role at VP level. You will design and engineer software with a customer-centric focus, contributing to architecture and a centre of excellence while collaborating with architects and engineers to deliver scalable, automated solutions.

The role emphasizes DevOps, Agile practices, API design, and modern tech like Python, React, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, with DevOps and Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Define, create and govern end-to-end engineering solutions focused on automation, resilience, security and performance.

Skills

Prompt engineering

Python

React Js

MCP protocol and architecture

Cloud & DevOps

AI workflow frameworks RAG

REST API

Test-driven development

APIs design

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Kafka

Hadoop

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

Closing date for applications: 25/08/2026

Location Bangalore, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

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

Youll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the banks overall software engineering capability

Youll 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, youll 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.

Youll 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. Well 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.

Youll 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

Youll 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, youll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

Youll also need:

• A strong background in Prompt engineering, Python, React Js, MCP protocol and architecture, Cloud & DevOps, AI workflow frameworks RAG, rest API
• 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

Welcome to our Bangalore hub

Located at Taurus 4, Bagmane Constellation Business Park, our new office stands as a state-of-the-art hub for innovation and collaboration.

Key facts:

• A 30 acre campus
• Space for 6,000 colleagues
• Opened in 2025

Our tech stack

Heres just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

• JavaScript
• ReactJS
• AngularJS

Back end

• Python
• Java
• Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

• AWS
• GitLab
• Google Cloud Platform

Data

• Kafka
• Hadoop
• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake .