Principal Platform Engineer
Job description
Closing date for applications: 30/06/2026 Location London, United Kingdom Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time Remote / On-site Hybrid You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues. Managerial / Technical Lead This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details. #R-00280689 Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure. So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter. Job description This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom. 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 You’ll come with significant experience in infrastructure software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. You’ll also need: A background in leading engineering development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or Ansible with experience integrating it into CI/CD pipelines and release management Familiarity with, and ability to install, configure and manage stateful, persistence technologies and broker/queuing systems, like NoSQL DBs, and Kafka Strong experience in observability platforms, with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions Experience in Linux systems administration, including networking management and security best practices Your benefits breakdown Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond. Tap each segment for details. Your pay package 80% Base pay This is the part your your pay package that you take home every month. 10% Pension funding 10% of your salary goes towards your pension every month. 10% Benefit funding 10% of your salary goes towards a range of benefits you can choose from. Your leave allowance 30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off. 3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about. 3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career. Total rewards package Welcome to our Bishopsgate hub Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work. Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable. Our tech stack Here’s just some of the technologies we use. Front end JavaScript ReactJS AngularJS Back end Python Java Microsoft Dynamics DevOps AWS GitLab Google Cloud Platform Data Kafka Hadoop PostgreSQL Snowflake