Principal Engineer, Vp Job in Natwest Group

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 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 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 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 Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform s software throughout its life 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 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. We d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. You ll also need: A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies You'll need eleven years of experience in java technologies 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