• Job Description

  Req#: R-00249798

  Join us as a Software 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 Software 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 working in a collaborative environment where your ideas and expertise are valued.

  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
  • Contributing to the development of cutting edge software solutions, trialling and rolling out Gen-AI enabled services such as GitLab Dup, Git Hub Copilot and Amazon Q to support engineers, testers, and architects that drive our mission forward

  The skills you'll need

  You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of 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 practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

  You’ll also need:

  • A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
  • Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and the use of automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools
  • The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
  • A core understanding of CICD Tools such as GitLab, BitBucket, Artifactory and Teamcity, CM and automation for example, Ansible Automate Platforms or Octopus
  • BDD Development experience using Cucumber and Gherkin to build testing scenarios, with development of validating those scenarios using Java, Node or Python
  • Experience with Grafana and Prometheus for observing the K8s platform
  • Experience of Gen AI Developer productivity tools such as GitLab Duo, GitHub CoPilot, Tabnine or Poolside AI

  Hours

  35

  Job Posting Closing Date:

  05/02/2025

  Ways of Working:Remote First

• About the company

  NatWest Group plc, is a majority state-owned British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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