Join us as a Software Engineer – Controls & Governance
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
- You’ll play a key role in enabling high-quality, secure, and compliant software delivery through robust engineering controls, governance, and assurance practices
- You’ll help embed resilient, risk-aware engineering standards across the organisation
- We're offering thios role at vice president level
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll build knowledge across business, applications, data, and infrastructure while enabling safe and compliant delivery through strong engineering controls and governance practices.
You’ll collaborate with principal engineers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure engineering outputs align with architectural principles, control standards, and the bank’s risk appetite.
You’ll also be:
- Implement and maintain engineering controls and technical guardrails that support safe, compliant, and high-quality delivery
- Contribute to the design and operation of control frameworks, governance processes, and assurance mechanisms
- Participate in design and code reviews to ensure alignment with engineering strategy, architecture, and mandated control standards
- Embed secure-by-design principles and modern engineering practices across teams
- Support assurance activities such as control assessments, risk-focused deep dives, and quality reviews, driving remediation
- Work with Architecture, Risk, Cyber Security, and Operations teams to ensure controls are practical, automated where possible, and integrated into delivery workflows
- Contribute to continuous improvement and standardisation of engineering quality and governance practices
- Monitor control effectiveness through metrics and reporting, escalating risks or gaps where appropriate
We’re looking for someone with strong software engineering knowledge and experience, with the ability to support governance, control, and risk management practices in complex environments .
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- Experience applying engineering best practice across scalability, resilience, automation, and performance
- A strong understanding of engineering controls, governance frameworks, and secure development principles
- Experience of information security policies and regulatory expectations within financial services
- The ability to analyse and validate complex requirements against business and control objectives
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across business, engineering and risk functions
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
16/07/2026Skills Required
- Strong software engineering knowledge and experience
- Experience applying engineering best practices across scalability, resilience, automation, and performance
- Strong understanding of engineering controls, governance frameworks, and secure development principles
- Experience of information security policies and regulatory expectations within financial services
- Ability to analyse and validate complex requirements against business and control objectives
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across business, engineering and risk functions
- Experience participating in design and code reviews and supporting assurance activities (control assessments, quality reviews)
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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