Software Engineering, TechnologyPrincipal Engineer, VPClosing date for applications: 28/06/2024

Chennai, India
Permanent
Full Time #R-00236168


Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital XIn 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.

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. 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
• Youll be playing a major role in the 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 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. Youll 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 platforms 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 Youll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing scalable, robust and high-performance applications. Wed also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. Youll also need:

• Expertise in Java, spring boot and microservices
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tool
• Experience of PostgreSQL, Kafka, containerization technologies and Kubernetes
• 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

How were building the digital bank of the futureIts a perfect time to join the digital revolution with us in a technology role, and weve a wide range of opportunities available. Discover whats surprised some of our colleagues about their job and see what its like to be part of our innovative team.