Software Engineer, AVP
NatWest Group
About the Role
- Opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge.
- This role is offered at Associate Vice President (AVP) level.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust solutions.
- Work within a feature team to engineer complex software, scripts, and tools.
- Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business analysts across the platform.
- Produce complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality that adds value to the business.
- Work in permanent teams responsible for the full life cycle (development, enhancement, maintenance, replacement, or decommissioning).
- Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability.
- Design, produce, test, and implement working code.
- Work across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment, and operations.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- AWS
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- DevOps
- Agile methodology
Qualifications
- Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
- Understanding of how your area of expertise supports customers.
- Strong expertise in designing and implementing scalable, secure AWS-based microservices architectures, with clear patterns, standards, and reusable solutions.
- Hands-on development of Java, Spring Boot, and microservices with a focus on high-quality, resilient, production-ready systems, including code reviews and best practices.
- Proven ability to solve complex technical challenges, lead teams, drive innovation (POCs), and ensure reliability, performance, security, and automated DevOps-enabled delivery.
- Experience of DevOps, Testing, and Agile methodology and associated toolsets.
- Background in solving highly complex, analytical, and numerical problems.
- Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance.


