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Principal Engineer, VP

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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Design and engineer customer-centric, high-performance, secure software and architectures. Lead platform and feature teams to deliver microservices, automate CI/CD, apply DevOps/Agile practices, define architecture roadmaps, and mentor engineering practices across the bank.
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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 actively contribute to our architecture, design and 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're 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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You’ll also 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques
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.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

  • We are ideally looking for experience of 12+ years in the below mentioned skills:
  • Expertise in coding with Java 17 and above, with significant experience in microservices/API development using SpringBoot, and containerization using Docker.
  • Strong expertise in Java performance optimisation to build low-latency, high-throughput systems.
  • Proficiency in using TDD/BDD frameworks like Cucumber/Selenium to ensure code quality.
  • Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres and MongoDB.
  • Skilled in using CI/CD tools, preferably GitLab/GitHub, and developing on AWS Kubernetes clusters using Helm Charts.
  • Exposure to cloud deployment, preferably on AWS.
  • Experience with KAFKA or any other event-driven framework.
  • Experience leveraging AI/GenAI tools within the SDLC to improve developer productivity and software quality.

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

25/06/2026

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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