NatWest Group

<p>Closing date for applications: 18/10/2026</p>
<p>Location Gurugram, India</p>
<p>Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time</p>
<p>#R-00286374</p>
<h2><strong>Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X</strong></h2>
<p>In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.</p>
<p>So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.</p>
<h2><strong>Job description</strong></h2>
<p>This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.</p>
<p>Join us as a Principal Engineer</p>
<ul>
<li>This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective</li>
<li>You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability</li>
<li>You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents</li>
<li>We're offering this role at vice president level</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You’ll also be:</p>
<ul>
<li>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</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>The skills you'll need</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You’ll also need:</p>
<ul>
<li>10 or more years of experience in Architecture and Design, including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and enterprise application development</li>
<li>Strong hands-on expertise in .NET Core, Angular, and database technologies</li>
<li>Strong understanding of Agentic AI, including LLMs, AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, and AI coding tools</li>
<li>Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills</li>
<li>Proven experience working in large-scale enterprise environments and leading complex technology initiatives</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Welcome to our Gurugram hub</strong></h2>
<p>Spanning 437,000 sq. ft., our campus in Gurugram features two state-of-the-art towers – 1A and 2A at the Candor TechSpace in Sector 21.</p>
<h3><strong>Key facts:</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Surrounded by 28 acres</li>
<li>Space for 4,100 colleagues</li>
<li>Opened in 2010</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Our tech stack</strong></h3>
<p>Here’s just some of the technologies we use.</p>
<h3><strong>Front end</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>JavaScript</li>
<li>ReactJS</li>
<li>AngularJS</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Back end</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>Microsoft Dynamics</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>DevOps</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>AWS</li>
<li>GitLab</li>
<li>Google Cloud Platform</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Data</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Kafka</li>
<li>Hadoop</li>
<li>PostgreSQL</li>
<li>Snowflake</li>
</ul>


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