Data Engineer, AVP

Overview

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 Data Engineer

• We’re looking for someone to build effortless, digital first customer experiences to help simplify our organisation and keep our data safe and secure
• Day-to-day, you’ll develop innovative, data-driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design while inspiring to be commercially successful through insights
• If you’re ready for a new challenge, and want to bring a competitive edge to your career profile by delivering streaming data ingestions, this could be the role for you
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level
  
  
  

What you’ll do

Your daily responsibilities will include you developing a comprehensive knowledge of our data structures and metrics, advocating for change when needed for product development. You’ll also provide transformation solutions and carry out complex data extractions.

We’ll expect you to develop a clear understanding of data platform cost levels to build cost-effective and strategic solutions. You’ll also source new data by using the most appropriate tooling before integrating it into the overall solution to deliver it to our customers.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Driving customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tools to build data solutions
• Participating in the data engineering community to deliver opportunities to support our strategic direction
• Carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture and the transformation of data to make it usable to analysts and data scientists
• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through the removal of manual stages
• Leading on the planning and design of complex products and providing guidance to colleagues and the wider team when required
  
  
  

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll have an understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and the end customer. You’ll also have experience of extracting value and features from large scale data.

We’ll expect you to have experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, exploration and analysis, and data warehousing and data modelling capabilities.

You’ll also need:

• 8 to 12 years experience in React, Node.js, Python, SQL, and database programming with experience in building scalable ETL pipelines, real-time streaming, and data warehousing
• Proficiency in AWS and IBM Cloud, integration with AI tools (AWS Bedrock, IBM Watson), and strong knowledge of data modeling for NLP, LLMs, and vector databases
• Ability to design dashboards and deliver data storytelling using Tableau, Power BI, or IBM Cognos
• Experience of using programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals
• Good knowledge of modern code development practices
• Great communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a range of stakeholders