NatWest Group
Principal Platform Engineer
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Principal Platform Engineer
Principal Engineer
Join us as a Principal Engineer - a challenging role focused on designing and engineering software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective.
With your software development background, you’ll work closely with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap. You’ll also gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure, while refining your technical talents and leadership skills.
About the Role
You’ll be responsible for creating outstanding customer outcomes through innovative solutions to existing and new challenges. Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure and robust technology designs.
- Leading technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, and ensuring their technical work aligns with strategic targets and investor metrics.
- Offering oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions, with a focus on:
- End-to-end automation
- Simplification
- Resilience
- Security
- Performance
- Scalability
- Reusability
- Collaborating with platform or feature teams and software engineers to design and implement complex software, scripts, and tools.
- Serving as the central point of contact for solution design considerations.
- Establishing and executing architecture models and roadmaps that address both business and technical needs, while enforcing consistent usability across products and domains.
- Contributing to domain and enterprise-level strategy, identifying transformational opportunities in the business and technology areas.
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Responsibilities
Solution Engineering & Design
- Deliver innovative solutions to real-world challenges while prioritising customer outcomes.
- Drive technical roadmaps and architecture evolution aligned with long-term business goals.
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor development teams in a matrix structure by applying best practices in technical direction.
- Translate product and business requirements into cohesive and executable technical solutions.
Technical Governance
- Define and maintain policies for automation, scalability, security, and resiliency.
- Continuously refine solutions using user sentiment and data-driven insights.
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Skills & Experience
Core Requirements
- Extensive experience in infrastructure software engineering, software architecture, and database design.
- Strong background in software development within a DevOps and Agile environment.
- Expertise in the latest market trends, technologies, and tools aligned with modern software development.
- Proven ability to implement best practices in:
- Scalability
- Automation
- Virtualisation
- Optimisation
- Availability
- Performance
Technical Proficiencies
- Broad knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform or Ansible, with CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Experience integrating IaC into release management workflows.
- Proficiency in stateful persistence technologies and message-brokering systems, such as:
- NoSQL databases
- Kafka
- Advanced skills in observability platforms, using data to guide continuous improvement.
Systems Administration
- Deep expertise in Linux systems administration, including:
- Networking management
- Security best practices
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