WOW - Principal Engineer - AI Platforms, Director

Closing date for applications: 18/06/2026

Location Bangalore, India

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

\#R\-00280093

• *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 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 are offering this role at director level

• *What you'll do**
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As a Principal Engineer, *you'll act as a architectural backbone of the AI platform ecosystem—guiding multiple teams, shaping long\-term strategy, and ensuring scalable, secure, and reusable cloud\-native solutions* .

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**
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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 bring 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
• 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

• *Welcome to our Bangalore hub**
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Located at Taurus 4, Bagmane Constellation Business Park, our new office stands as a state\-of\-the\-art hub for innovation and collaboration.

### **Key facts:**

• A 30 acre campus
• Space for 6,000 colleagues
• Opened in 2025

### **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