NatWest Group

Principal Engineer, Digital Assistant

NatWest Group  •  Manchester, GB (Onsite)  •  6 days ago
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Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Digital Assistant

  • This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment
  • With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
  • As well as developing your technical talents, you'll have the opportunity to build project and leadership skills which will open up a range of exciting career options

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, and will develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams.

You’ll also gain a distinguished leadership status in the software engineering community as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities.

You’ll also be:

  • Designing and developing high performance and high availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies
  • Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
  • Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
  • Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
  • Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.

Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

  • Experience of leading software development teams whilst introducing and executing technical strategies
  • The ability to use industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
  • Knowledge and proficiency in designing full stack software and architecture solutions, preferable Chat or AI based
  • Experience in CI/CD pipelines, hosting on prem and cloud platforms including AWS and IBM Cloud
  • Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own using Python and NodeJS

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

27/05/2026Ways of Working:Remote First

NatWest Group

About NatWest Group

We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.

As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.

Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.

One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.

We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Edinburgh, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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