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NatWest Group

Principal Engineer, VP

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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Lead architecture and engineering for customer-focused, secure, high-performance software platforms. Define roadmaps, oversee design governance, enable end-to-end automation and reuse, mentor engineers, drive adoption of AI, Intelligent Automation and Power Platform capabilities, and collaborate with feature teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
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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
  • You’ll be playing a major role in the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
  • You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
  • We are offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll 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. You’ll 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. 

You’ll 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 platform’s 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

You’ll 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. You'll need at least fifteen years of total experience as a strategic Principal Engineer with a proven ability to define and drive enterprise-wide technical strategy across AI, Intelligent Automation, and Power Platform capabilities. You'll bring deep expertise in building and scaling reusable platforms leveraging Power Platform, workflow orchestration, GenAI/Agentic AI, APIs, and enterprise automation solutions, while influencing senior stakeholders across Technology, Operations, and Business functions.

You'll need strong transformation mindset, using platform-led thinking to solve complex business and operational challenges through simplification, innovation, and scalable engineering practices rather than point solutions. You'll need experience in setting engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, foster a culture of quality, resilience, security, and reuse, and lead the adoption of modern technologies. You'll need experience in adopting of AI and automation capabilities, creation of reusable enterprise assets, delivery of measurable business outcomes, and development of a high-performing engineering culture that supports the organisation's Intelligent Automation and AI platform strategy.

You’ll also need:

  • A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
  • 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

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

25/08/2026

NatWest Group Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office

Kosmo One, Plot No 14 3rd Main Road, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600 058

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