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
What you'll do
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
The skills you'll need
You’ll have a Core Knowledge and Expertise and strong background in AWS cloud technologies and cloud-native architectures. Practitioner knowledge of software engineering best practices including Agile and DevOps frameworks. Proven ability to produce high-quality software designs, architecture roadmaps, and technical standards. Strong programming and analytical skills, with the ability to apply AI-driven approaches to solve complex problems.
You'll also have experience in leading Proofs of Concept (PoCs), technology evaluations, and innovation initiatives from concept through to production. Designing and delivering end-to-end solution flows across complex enterprise environments. Defining platform architecture for: Model servingAI gatewaysAPIsObservabilitySecurity and governance. Collaborating across engineering, product, architecture, data science, and security teams to deliver business outcomes. You'll need an experience of 12+ years with teh below skillsets.
You’ll also need: Technical Skills:
- Proven expertise in creating High-Level Solution Designs (HLSDs) and Detailed Solution Designs.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tools, including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python for platform engineering, automation, and AI/ML solution development.
- Strong experience in Cloud Architecture, preferably AWS.
- Strong programming and analytical skills with practical experience applying AI to real-world problems.
- Good to Have:
- Experience with Amazon Connect.
- Familiarity with AI agents, Guardrails, and Responsible AI principles and implementations.
- Expertise in GenAI platform architecture, AI/ML solutions, and cloud-native technologies.
- AWS Cloud Architect certification is an added advantage.
- Strong knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, model orchestration, and LLM-based solutions
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
27/10/2026Skills Required
- Background in software engineering, software design, or database design and architecture
- Significant experience developing software using SOA or microservices architectures
- Development experience in one or more programming languages
- Strong understanding of scalability, availability, and performance best practices
- Experience leading software development teams
- Experience introducing and executing technical strategies
- Knowledge of industry-recognized frameworks and development tooling
- Experience with test-driven development and automated test frameworks
- Experience with mocking, stubbing, and unit testing tools
- Background designing or implementing APIs
- Experience supporting, modifying, and maintaining systems developed by other teams
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.
