Join us as a Lead Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven Lead Engineer to join us and support the technical delivery of a software engineering team
- You’ll be responsible for developing solution design options and explaining the pros and cons to key stakeholders for appropriate decision making
- Hone your existing technical skills and advance your career in this innovative and challenging role
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
In this role, you’ll support a team of developers and set the technical direction of the deliveries, applying the principles and methodologies of software engineering to the technical design, development, testing, and maintenance of applications and services.
We’ll look to you to oversee the work quality of the software engineering team, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output, as well as implementing a culture of concise and comprehensive technical documentation as a continuous process.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Supporting and monitoring the technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance and providing updates to stakeholders
- Supporting and mentoring the team in the understanding of relevant software languages and technical domains
- Driving the adoption of software engineering principles, processes and best practices
- Liaising with engineers, architects, business analysts and other key stakeholders to understand the objectives, requirements and options
- Designing and developing high-volume, high-performance and high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies
To be successful in this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience in providing technical leadership and accountability for a software engineering team.
We’ll also look to you to have experience of test-driven development and the use of automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools, along with knowledge of the key phases of the software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Strong experience in object-oriented application development, with hands-on expertise in Python, PostgreSQL, Unix/Linux, and shell scripting
- Proven experience leading feature teams and driving the delivery of high-performance, scalable, and resilient software solutions
- Strong background working in Agile and DevOps environments, with a focus on engineering best practices, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- The ability to develop software in an SOA or micro-services paradigm
- Experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
29/07/2026Skills Required
- Background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture
- Experience providing technical leadership and accountability for a software engineering team
- Experience with test-driven development and automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools
- Knowledge of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
- Strong experience in object-oriented application development
- Hands-on expertise in Python
- Hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL
- Hands-on expertise in Unix/Linux and shell scripting
- Proven experience leading feature teams and delivering high-performance, scalable, resilient software
- Strong background working in Agile and DevOps environments, with focus on CI/CD
- Ability to develop software in an SOA or micro-services paradigm
- Experience using industry-recognised frameworks and development tooling
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.
