Closing date for applications: 19/08/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In 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.

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

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're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating excellent 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 bring at least fifteen years of overall experience with expertise in designing, modernizing, and scaling enterprise-grade platforms, with deep expertise in banking, risk, and data-intensive environments. You'll need experience in large-scale cloud and platform migrations, drive CI/CD modernization initiatives,



and leverage GenAI-assisted technologies to enhance engineering productivity and delivery outcomes.

You'll also need experience in architecture strategy and technical decision-making, provide strong leadership across cross-functional teams, and consistently deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions within highly regulated environments while ensuring alignment with business and compliance requirements.

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

Welcome to our Chennai hub

Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.

Key facts:

- Surrounded by 10 acres
- Space for 3,600 colleagues
- Opened in 2009

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS

Back end

- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform

Data

- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake

📌 Principal Engineer , VP (India)
🏢 National Westminster Bank
📍 India