Join us as a Principal Engineer

• Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity
• This role is available as either a full time or reduced hours/part time (min 28 hours) opportunity

What you'll do

You’re joining a team that’s passionate about building on the foundations of our ‘one-bank’ approach to deliver simple, safe and secure solutions for NatWest Markets, enabling our people, clients and businesses to thrive.

With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, you’ll coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software, scripts and tools that are customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, you’ll create efficiency where it doesn’t already exist by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
• Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work
• Working with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bank
• Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools
• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent

The skills you'll need

As a senior engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.

You'll demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
• In depth understanding of front to back markets workflows and processes, including e-trading, risk and trade lifecycle management
• Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication skills

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

27/08/2024

Ways of Working:Remote First