Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Data Engineering Lead
- You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing data engineering solutions, working across the lifecycle of the system
- Hone your existing data engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
- We're offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
You’ll also be:
- Applying Agile methods to the development of data engineering solutions on the backlog
- Producing resilient and long-lived solutions and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
- Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Designing and developing solutions with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
- Leading and line managing a team of 5 Data Engineers aligning to data engineering best practices
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in data engineering design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements, coupled with leadership and people management skills
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- Experience of leading the implementation of best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
- Strong proficiency in relational databases, advanced SQL, and robust data modelling, database optimisation, Python pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and dbt transformation
- Experience designing, building, and operating cloud‑based data solutions (Azure preferred)
- Extensive experience working with scalable batch and streaming architectures using distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark and PySpark
- Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business and data teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
- Experience of information security policies and data governance practices within the financial sector
- Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
- Experience of leading and line managing data engineers
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
29/10/2026Skills Required
- Strong full-stack experience in data engineering design and implementation
- Programming experience for solving complex problems
- Complex requirements analysis, capture, and validation against business and systems requirements
- Leadership and people management skills
- Experience implementing best practices for scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability, and performance
- Strong proficiency in relational databases, advanced SQL, data modeling, and database optimization
- Experience building Python pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and dbt transformations
- Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-based data solutions; Azure preferred
- Extensive experience with scalable batch and streaming architectures using distributed processing frameworks such as Spark and PySpark
- Collaboration with business and data teams to deliver pragmatic solutions
- Experience with information security policies and data governance practices in the financial sector
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience leading and line managing data engineers
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
