Closing date for applications: 16/11/2026

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 easy solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Join us as a Data Engineer

- This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical expertise to support colleagues in building effortless, digital first customer experiences
- You’ll be simplifying the bank by developing innovative data driven solutions, using insight to be commercially successful, and keeping our customers’ and the bank’s data safe and secure
- Participating actively in the data engineering community, you’ll deliver opportunities to support the bank’s strategic direction while building your network across the bank
- We're offering this role at senior analyst level

What you'll do

As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in providing support to drive value for our customers by building data solutions. You’ll be carrying out data engineering tasks to build, maintain, test and optimise a scalable data architecture, as well as carrying out data extractions, transforming data to make it usable for data analysts and scientists, and loading data into data platforms. In addition, you'll be developing comprehensive knowledge of our data structures and metrics, and advocating for changes where needed for product development.

You’ll also be

- Developing comprehensive knowledge of the bank’s data structures and metrics,



advocating change where needed for product development
- Practicing DevOps adoption in the delivery of data engineering, proactively performing root cause analysis and resolving issues
- Collaborating closely with core technology and architecture teams in the bank to build data knowledge and data solutions
- Developing a clear understanding of data platform cost levers to build cost effective and strategic solutions
- Sourcing new data using the most appropriate tooling and integrating it into the overall solution to deliver for our customers

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need at least two years years of experience in data usage, as well as experience of extracting value and features from large scale data.

You’ll also demonstrate

- Experience building intelligent digital onboarding journeys using React, Python, AWS and MongoDB, creating scalable, intuitive experiences that simplify complex customer and business onboarding
- Expertise in developing AI-enabled and agentic capabilities, using LLMs, AI agents, APIs and automation patterns to help orchestrate workflows, interpret information, support decision-making and reduce manual effort across the onboarding journey
- Experience in engineering and owning capabilities end-to-end, combining cloud-native architecture, CI/CD and automated testing
- Knowledge of responsible AI engineering to take solutions from technical design and experimentation through integration and production delivery

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

📌 Data Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 NatWest Group
📍 Chennai