Join us as a Principal Engineer
- This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment
- With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
- As well as developing your technical talents, you'll have the opportunity to build project and leadership skills which will open up a range of exciting career options
- We're offering this role at vice president 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, and will develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams.
You’ll also gain a distinguished leadership status in the software engineering community as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities.
You’ll also be:
- Designing and developing high performance and high availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies
- 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 of expertise in designing High-Level and Detailed Solution Designs (HLSD/HLD, LLD), with strong experience in AWS cloud architecture, cloud-native technologies, and scalable enterprise solutions
- Experience of leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, RAG frameworks, vector databases, model orchestration, LLM-based applications, AI agents, guardrails, and Responsible AI principles
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Python-based automation to build, deploy, and manage resilient platforms
- Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
- A background in designing or implementing APIs
- Proven ability to apply Python and advanced analytical skills to solve real-world business challenges, develop intelligent solutions, and drive innovation across cloud and AI ecosystems.
- Good to have experience with Amazon Connect and AWS Cloud Architect certification
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
30/07/2026Skills Required
- 10+ years expertise in High-Level and Detailed Solution Designs (HLSD/HLD, LLD) and scalable enterprise solutions
- Strong experience in AWS cloud architecture and cloud-native technologies
- Experience leading software development teams and executing technical strategies
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, RAG frameworks, vector databases, model orchestration, LLM-based applications, AI agents, guardrails, and Responsible AI principles
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Proven Python experience and Python-based automation for building, deploying, and managing platforms
- Experience with test-driven development, automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing, unit and integration testing
- Background in designing or implementing APIs and SOA/microservices paradigms
- Experience with Amazon Connect
- AWS Cloud Architect certification
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.
