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About this Principal Engineer, API Management Platform role at NatWest Group

NatWest Group · Onsite · London

Join us as a Principal Engineer, API Management Platform

  • 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, API Management Platform, 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

To succeed in this role, you'll bring expertise in cloud architecture across AWS and GCP, designing secure, resilient and scalable solutions in complex enterprise environments. You'll have a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes platforms (GKE/EKS), container services and API management, with knowledge of Apigee Hybrid being advantageous.

You'll be experienced in shaping architecture strategy, producing high and low-level designs, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements and business outcomes.

You'll also bring:

  • Deep expertise in API architecture and adoption, defining secure, scalable and reusable services for internal and external consumers
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and communicate architecture decisions at all levels
  • Experience working in Agile delivery environments, collaborating across engineering, architecture, security and product teams
  • Strong knowledge of cloud security, DevSecOps and infrastructure automation, including Terraform, CI/CD and modern identity and access management practices
  • An understanding of emerging cloud-native AI capabilities, such as Vertex AI, would be beneficial

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

09/09/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First
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