Principal Engineer, VP

NatWest Group

. Design and engineer software with customer or user experience as the primary objective .

Posted 9/29/2026full-timeBengaluru • IndiaLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on customer-centric technology designs, driving automation, scalability, and performance in large-scale platforms. Proven ability to lead architectural initiatives and influence stakeholders at senior levels.

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Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsMicroservicesAWSKubernetes

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Hard Skills

Software DesignAutomationPerformance EngineeringScalabilityVirtualisationOptimisationReal-Time SystemsEvent-Driven PatternsAPI FrameworksObservability

Soft Skills

InfluencingLeadership

Industry Keywords

BankingEngineering Centre of ExcellenceCustomer ExperienceGovernanceOperational Excellence

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKubernetesMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and engineer software with customer or user experience as the primary objective
Improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability through the engineering centre of excellence
Create customer outcomes through engineering, innovative solutions and customer-centric technology designs
Define, create and provide oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions
Drive end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
Define and develop architecture models and roadmaps for application and software components
Drive common usability across products and domains
Work with feature teams to produce high-quality software rapidly
Determine design and delivery approaches for platform software throughout its life
Design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms, applications and services
Act as a point of contact for solution design considerations

Requirements

What you’ll need

Fifteen years of extensive experience in software engineering roles
Strong expertise in distributed systems and real-time, high-throughput, low-latency platforms
Significant and demonstrable experience implementing programming best practices, especially scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Deep hands-on knowledge of microservices, event-driven patterns, AWS, Kubernetes and modern API frameworks
Proven delivery experience in large-scale platform engineering or architectural leadership roles
Strong understanding of performance engineering, resilience patterns, observability and operational excellence
Ability to influence at senior levels and lead without formal authority