Join us as a Principal Engineer, Director
- This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
- With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
- You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
- We're offering this role at director level
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards.
You’ll also be:
- Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
- Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
- Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
- Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
- Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality
You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. You'll need at least eighteen years of experience in full stack engineering, leading the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure solutions across front-end, backend, APIs, and cloud platforms. You'll bring deep expertise in modern software engineering, including full stack development, microservices, event-driven architectures, AWS cloud services, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering to build enterprise-scale Data and AI products.
You'll need experience in driving technical strategy, architecture, innovation, automation, code quality, and performance optimisation whilst mentoring engineering teams and collaborating closely with Product, Data Science, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact Data and AI initiatives.
You’ll also need:
- A strong background in leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Knowledge of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
- Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
- A background in designing or implementing APIs
- Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own
- The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
12/10/2026Skills Required
- At least 18 years of experience in full-stack engineering
- Experience leading the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure solutions
- Experience with software engineering, software or database design, and architecture
- Significant experience developing software using SOA or microservices
- Expertise in full-stack development, microservices, event-driven architectures, AWS cloud services, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering
- Experience building enterprise-scale Data and AI products
- Experience driving technical strategy, architecture, innovation, automation, code quality, and performance optimization
- Experience leading software development teams and executing technical strategies
- Knowledge of industry-recognized frameworks and development tooling
- Experience with test-driven development, automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing, and unit testing tools
- Experience designing or implementing APIs
- Experience supporting, modifying, and maintaining systems developed by other teams
- Ability to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
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.
