Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy, VP

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

3 days ago

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy

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're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll doAs 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
Driving innovation by evaluating and implementing new tools, frameworks, and best practices that enhance the platform’s cloud capabilities
Developing and executing a comprehensive cloud strategy for investment banking use cases including model based valuation control, profit and loss attribution control, trading wind down strategy and tax reporting
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

The skills you'll needYou’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 experience in implementing cloud strategy and architectures using AWS that aligns with the overall technology platform vision while designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud solutions as per industry standards for applications using microservices, containerisation and CI/CD pipelines.You'll need experience in optimising cloud costs and enhancing performance through data-driven decisions. You'll also need in depth knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance standards using best in-class security frameworks ensuring data protection in cloud environments.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: 15/09/2025

NatWest Group

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