Wow Software Engineer-Database

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 Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
• We're offering this role at associate level
  
  
  

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
  
  
  

The skills you'll need

This is a individual contributor role – must have the capability of performing independent POCs and working with cross functional departments along with the below Tech skills.

• Design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• Work within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, business analysts across the platform as well as other key stakeholders to understand the objectives, goals and requirements
• Design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking
• Proven experience in managing large-scale distributed systems and understanding the principles of scalability and reliability.
• Minimum of 4-9 years experience in IT and preferably from Banking Domain.
• Mandatory Skills:
  
• Development: Postgres, SQL/PgSQL
• Design: Database Design & Modelling
• Optimisation: Knowledge of indexing, query optimisation, partitions and performance tuning in PostgreSQL.
• Architecture: Data architecture, Security and Controls
• DevOps: GitLab, CI/CD, Liquibase
  
  
• Preferred Skills:
  
• Experience with cloud-based PostgreSQL services (e.g., AWS RDS,).
• Working experience with ETL tools (preferably IDMC)
  
  
• Good Team player, good written and oral communication