Fixed Income Securities Principal Engineer, Director

Job Description

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. Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Job Description Join us as a Fixed Income Securities Principal Engineer This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities We're offering this role at director level What You'll Do As a Fixed Income (FI) Securities Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards. You’ll also be: Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality The Skills You'll Need To succeed in this role, you should have an overall experience of 15-20 years in investment banking and banking software development. You'll be FI subject matter expert with at least Seven years of experience in Bonds, Repos and Futures. You’ll have a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as have significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance. You’ll also need: FI Subject matter expert with 10 years of experience in Bonds, Repos and Futures trade booking & life cycle management Overall experience of eighteen years in investment banking and banking software development Experience of working in lead transformation, architecture blueprint, decommission of legacy apps creating microservices stack for java based apps Mandatory experience of GCP/Cloud Experience of handling a team size of 20+ individuals including managers and Senior managers across Dev, QA and support