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.

Principal Engineer – Director, NatWest Group (Chennai, Onsite)

Lead enterprise software, cloud, data, and AI engineering at NatWest Group. Shape technical strategy, resilient systems, APIs, testing practices, and engineering team delivery.

Description

  • Set application development and software lifecycle standards across the bank
  • Deliver software components for platforms, applications, and services
  • Represent the bank at internal and industry events, conferences, and related activities
  • Translate functional and non-functional requirements into effective technical designs
  • Plan, build, and deploy high-performance, robust, and resilient systems
  • Work with senior stakeholders to determine appropriate technical solutions
  • Direct the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams
  • Maintain work quality and adherence to technical standards across teams
  • Set technical strategy and advise on product roadmaps and migration plans
  • Uphold sound architectural and engineering principles across systems
  • Track technical delivery against plans while protecting functionality, scalability, and performance
  • Keep stakeholders informed of delivery progress
  • Create reusable libraries and APIs
  • Develop unit and integration tests in automated testing environments

Requirements

  • At least 18 years of full-stack engineering experience
  • Professional experience building software with service-oriented or microservices architectures
  • Advanced knowledge of full-stack development, microservices, event-driven architecture, AWS cloud services, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering
  • A track record of leading technical strategy, architecture, innovation, automation, code quality, and performance optimisation
  • Experience mentoring engineering teams and partnering with Product, Data Science, Architecture, and business stakeholders
  • Strong experience leading software development teams and delivering technical strategies
  • Familiarity with recognised industry frameworks and development tools
  • Experience with test-driven development, automated testing frameworks, mocking, stubbing, and unit-testing tools
  • Experience designing or implementing APIs
  • Experience supporting, enhancing, and maintaining systems and code created by other teams
  • Ability to interpret product and business needs and turn them into technical solutions

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