Join us as a Principal Engineer
- This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
- You’ll be playing a major role in the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
- You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
- We are offering this role at vice president level
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust. You’ll be defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.
You’ll also be:
- Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
- Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
- Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
- Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. You'll need at least fifteen years of total experience as a strategic Principal Engineer with a proven ability to define and drive enterprise-wide technical strategy across AI, Intelligent Automation, and Power Platform capabilities. You'll bring deep expertise in building and scaling reusable platforms leveraging Power Platform, workflow orchestration, GenAI/Agentic AI, APIs, and enterprise automation solutions, while influencing senior stakeholders across Technology, Operations, and Business functions.
You'll need strong transformation mindset, using platform-led thinking to solve complex business and operational challenges through simplification, innovation, and scalable engineering practices rather than point solutions. You'll need experience in setting engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, foster a culture of quality, resilience, security, and reuse, and lead the adoption of modern technologies. You'll need experience in adopting of AI and automation capabilities, creation of reusable enterprise assets, delivery of measurable business outcomes, and development of a high-performing engineering culture that supports the organisation's Intelligent Automation and AI platform strategy.
You’ll also need:
- A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
- A background in designing or implementing APIs
- The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
- A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
25/08/2026Skills Required
- At least fifteen years total experience as a strategic Principal Engineer
- Significant experience in software engineering
- Experience in software or database design and architecture
- Experience developing software within DevOps and Agile frameworks
- Proven ability to define and drive enterprise-wide technical strategy across AI, Intelligent Automation, and Power Platform
- Deep expertise building and scaling reusable platforms leveraging Power Platform, workflow orchestration, GenAI/Agentic AI, APIs, and enterprise automation solutions
- Experience setting engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers
- Experience adopting AI and automation capabilities and creating reusable enterprise assets
- Strong background leading software development teams in a matrix structure
- Significant demonstrable experience of test-driven development and automated test frameworks
- Experience with mocking, stubbing, and unit testing tools
- Background in designing or implementing APIs
- Ability to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions rapidly
- Experience working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
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.
