NatWest Group
NatWest Group
NatWest Group is a UK-based banking and financial services organisation serving personal, commercial and institutional customers. Its work spans banking, finance and fintech, with services that include commercial banking, wealth management and risk management. The group also highlights its relationships with customers and communities, alongside opportunities for people building careers across its banking and technology-focused teams.

Lending AI Platform Lead, Director - NatWest Group, Bengaluru Onsite

Lead Matrix, NatWest Group’s strategic agentic AI platform for commercial lending transformation. Direct enterprise AI architecture, engineering, governance, operations, and platform strategy across Lending.

Description

  • Set the strategic direction and roadmap for the Commercial Lending AI Platform
  • Own the architecture and engineering strategy for Matrix and the broader AI platform ecosystem
  • Direct the design and delivery of enterprise agentic AI capabilities, including orchestration, agent lifecycle management, model and tool integration, retrieval, governance, observability, evaluation, and operational controls
  • Advance engineering excellence through modern software practices, platform engineering, automation, reliability engineering, and operational discipline
  • Oversee architecture, engineering, build, testing, implementation, operations, risk management, and ongoing optimisation
  • Partner with senior business leaders, product owners, architects, and engineering leaders to turn business outcomes into scalable technology solutions
  • Embed security, risk management, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and governance into platform delivery
  • Manage financial, commercial, and operational platform performance and present results through executive governance forums
  • Sequence initiatives against delivery, adoption, engineering quality, risk, and cost objectives
  • Lead multidisciplinary engineering, platform, and architecture teams
  • Ensure the stability, availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of AI platforms, infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling
  • Create reusable platform services, standards, frameworks, controls, and engineering patterns
  • Represent platform and technology strategy in executive forums and influence senior stakeholders

Requirements

  • Extensive experience directing strategy, architecture, engineering, and delivery for large-scale AI, platform, or cloud-native capabilities in complex enterprise environments
  • Deep knowledge of platform architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, modern software practices, and enterprise technology operations
  • Proven experience designing, building, and operating agentic AI platforms, including orchestration frameworks, agent architectures, LLM ecosystems, model integration, governance, and operational capabilities
  • Track record of creating foundational technology platforms used by multiple engineering teams and business domains
  • Strong architectural leadership and technical credibility with senior engineers, architects, and technology leaders
  • Experience delivering resilient, secure, regulated technology platforms, preferably in financial services or another regulated sector
  • Commercial judgment and the ability to turn complex business problems into scalable technical solutions
  • Leadership experience encompassing Agile and servant leadership, with a record of delivering transformational programmes through complex governance structures
  • Expertise in risk management, financial oversight, stakeholder engagement, and executive collaboration
  • Experience in operations, risk management, financial management, collaboration, and negotiation
  • Advanced architecture, platform engineering, and software engineering expertise
  • Experience defining AI platform operating models, engineering standards, governance frameworks, and reusable technology capabilities
  • Strong understanding of enterprise AI, machine learning, and agentic AI technologies, including production-scale applications
  • Hands-on experience delivering AI platforms for model serving, agent orchestration, observability, evaluation, governance, and operational management
  • Understanding of large technology programmes involving multiple teams, disciplines, and senior governance forums
  • Ability to operate effectively as both a senior technology executive and a highly technical engineering leader

Benefits

  • Full-time employment
  • Director-level position

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