Software Engineer, Associate Vice President

Closing date for applications: 23/07/2026

Location Gurugram, India

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

\#R\-00280510

• *Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X**
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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.

• *Job description**
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This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day\-to\-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

• *What you'll do**
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In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
• Designing reusable mainframe\-centric plug\-ins, modules, templates, and environment\-ready components to support provisioning, automation, and cross\-platform consistency across z/OS and distributed systems
• Engineering reusable environment patterns and supporting artefacts that integrate core mainframe technologies with distributed and cloud platforms
• Working within feature or domain teams to implement repeatable mainframe\-driven patterns and tooling that improve environment stability, scalability, and developer experience

• *The skills you'll need**
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You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need

• Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Strong Python programming expertise, developing scalable and reusable solutions while integrating with mainframe technologies such as DB2, VSAM, CICS, and batch processing environments
• Experience applying Python within DevOps, testing, and Agile environments, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and tooling for mainframe\-integrated platforms
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

• *Welcome to our Gurugram hub**
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Spanning 437,000 sq. ft., our campus in Gurugram features two state\-of\-the\-art towers – 1A and 2A at the Candor TechSpace in Sector 21\.

### **Key facts:**

• Surrounded by 28 acres
• Space for 4,100 colleagues
• Opened in 2010

### **Our tech stack**

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

### **Front end**

• JavaScript
• ReactJS
• AngularJS

### **Back end**

• Python
• Java
• Microsoft Dynamics

### **DevOps**

• AWS
• GitLab
• Google Cloud Platform

### **Data**

• Kafka
• Hadoop
• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake