Principal Engineer, Cloud, VP

Job Description

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure. So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter. Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Job Description Join us as a Principal Engineer, Cloud 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 actively contribute to our architecture, design and 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're offering this role at vice president level What you'll do 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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We?ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business. You?ll also 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 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 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 Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques The skills you'll need 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 twelve years of experince in Snowflake, Cloud technologies, Bigdata technologies, Database like Oracle and SQL Server and team management. You'll also need experience in migrating existing application on AWS cloud managing Snowflake development and handling Database and Data warehouse team. 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