Closing date for applications: 10/09/2026

Location London, United Kingdom

Salary £75,520 – £113,280

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month 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.

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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, API Management Platform

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, API Management Platform, 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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

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
Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll bring expertise in cloud architecture across AWS and GCP, designing secure, resilient and scalable solutions in complex enterprise environments. You'll have a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes platforms (GKE/EKS), container services and API management, with knowledge of Apigee Hybrid being advantageous.

You'll be experienced in shaping architecture strategy, producing high and low-level designs, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements and business outcomes.

You'll also bring:

Deep expertise in API architecture and adoption, defining secure, scalable and reusable services for internal and external consumers
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and communicate architecture decisions at all levels
Experience working in Agile delivery environments, collaborating across engineering, architecture, security and product teams
Strong knowledge of cloud security, DevSecOps and infrastructure automation, including Terraform, CI/CD and modern identity and access management practices
An understanding of emerging cloud-native AI capabilities, such as Vertex AI, would be beneficial

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.

Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

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
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