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Principal Engineer

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In-Office
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Senior level
In-Office
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Senior level
The Principal Engineer will design and engineer high-performance software focusing on user experience, lead technical assignments, and oversee engineering governance while collaborating with teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
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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
  • 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
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 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

We’re looking for someone with significant experience in software architecture and engineering, as well as in software and database design, combined with strong experience in developing software within continuous delivery, DevOps, and Agile environments. Alongside an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies, and tools, you’ll also need to have substantial, demonstrable experience in implementing programming best-practices, particularly in the areas of scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, performance, and cost efficiency.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the ability to use this expertise to quickly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions that align with our architectural goals and standards.

In addition, you’ll need:

  • A strong background in leading software development teams, shaping and executing technical strategies, and providing both individual and group coaching and mentoring
  • Extensive experience in designing scalable and resilient architectures using techniques suited for real-time systems, including microservices, event streaming, and distributed data
  • Significant experience with test-driven development, including the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing, contract testing, and unit testing tools
  • A background in designing or implementing APIs and microservices, as well as the infrastructure required to run them
  • Strong experience with cloud-computing platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

16/04/2026

Ways of Working:Office First

Top Skills

Agile
Amazon Web Services
Architectural Models
Automated Test Frameworks
Cloud-Computing
Continuous Delivery
Database Design
DevOps
Distributed Data
Event Streaming
Microservices
Software Architecture
Software Development
Test-Driven Development
HQ

NatWest Group Edinburgh, Scotland Office

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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