Join us as a Principal Engineer
- 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.
Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.
You’ll also need:
- At least 10 years in leading architecture and delivery of Treasury and Financial-Markets systems, with deep expertise in financial markets, market data (pricing, reference, real-time feeds), and risk domains, ensuring solutions meet both functional and regulatory requirements
- Expereince of owning end-to-end technical strategy for cloud-native platforms on AWS, designing scalable, resilient, and secure solutions using best practices across compute, data, and integration services
- Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
- A background in trtanslating complex business and risk requirements into robust technical designs, driving high-performance systems that support trading, analytics, and risk management workflows
- Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own
- Hands-on technical leadership across engineering teams, mentoring engineers and enforcing engineering excellence in distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time processing
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
24/06/2026Skills Required
- 10+ years leading architecture and delivery of Treasury and Financial-Markets systems with deep market data and risk domain expertise.
- Proven ownership of end-to-end technical strategy for cloud-native platforms on AWS.
- Significant software engineering background with experience in SOA or microservices paradigms.
- Experience with test-driven development, automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing, and unit testing tools.
- Ability to translate complex business and risk requirements into robust, high-performance technical designs.
- Experience supporting, modifying, and maintaining systems and code developed by other teams.
- Hands-on technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and enforcing engineering excellence in distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time processing.
- Understanding of scalability, availability, and performance best practices in software design.
- Experience designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs and writing unit/integration tests within automated environments.
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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