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It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

About the Job

This role is designed for a visionary technical leader who can set long-term technical direction and act as a strategic force multiplier for engineering. 

As a Principal Engineer, you will define technical strategy, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and guide senior engineering talent across the organization. You will collaborate with senior technology leaders, shape engineering standards, and influence the future of NAB’s platform and developer ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Define and own long-term technical vision, architecture, and roadmaps for key platform domains.
• Lead architectural design of complex, cross-functional platform solutions that are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Solve large-scale, ambiguous platform challenges through deep technical exploration and innovation.
• Establish engineering best practices, author design documents and RFCs, and drive engineering excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers (SDE3s), acting as a force multiplier for technical capability across teams.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to align platform strategy with broader business and technology goals.

What You’ll Bring

• 17+ years of software/platform engineering experience, including senior or principal-level leadership.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems design and operation at enterprise scale.
• Mastery of Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including multi-tenant environments.
• Ability to influence technical direction across large engineering groups without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex concepts to technical and leadership audiences.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to anticipate future needs and shape long-term platform strategy.
• Experience leading AI and GenAI adoption across engineering platforms.
• Strong grounding in security and risk principles for highly regulated environments.

Good to Have

• Experience building AI-driven platform capabilities.
• Contributions to open-source cloud-native or infrastructure software.
• Expertise in advanced deployment strategies and modern delivery platforms (e.g., Harness).
• Published thought leadership (talks, blogs, whitepapers) on distributed systems or platform engineering.

Additional Requirements

• 1+ years of work experience with AWS
• Experience with Java & Spring Boot
• Experience designing and developing Microservices
• Experience with React / Angular frameworks
• Experience working with COTS products
• Domain experience in Trade & Working Capital
• Domain experience in Liquidity Management

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:

Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you:

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India:

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities

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