Principal Engineer, Data… at NatWest Group · Gurugram

Principal Engineer, Data Stream(Lending), Director Location: Gurugram 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 With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills We're offering this role at director 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 leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors. 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 Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas 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. Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll be accountable for delivering technical excellence in defining and implementing a data strategy across the Lending domain, ensuring a robust data catalog and dictionary, well‑understood data flows, and appropriate technologies for data extraction, transformation, loading and analysis to support platforms, customers and AI agents 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 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 22/05/2026 Additional Locations: Bengaluru