Principal Engineer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ |
| Cwmni: | NatWest Group |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | R-00250875 |
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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 actively contribute to our architecture, design and 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
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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.
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
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques
The skills you'll need
You’ll have experience in software engineering platform CI/CD design and implementation, including the ability to produce reusable CI/CD patterns and templates to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against business and systems requirements.
You'll have experience of DevOps best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance along with development experience in at least one mainstream programming language such as Python. Experience with AWS cloud and Kubernetes along with automation using Python would be advantageous.
You’ll also need:
- DevOps experience using SCM with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible or Helm
- Significant and demonstrable experience of using Gitlab CI/CD templates and pipelines including building custom Gitlab runners
- Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
- Experience of bank change governance process RTL/SAR to improve developer experience