IT & Software

Principal Engineer, Digital Assets

NatWest Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Principal Engineer role, you will shape the technical direction for digital asset capabilities within the bank. You lead architecture, deliver high-performance systems, and govern software development life cycles across teams. You will engage senior stakeholders to tailor solutions that meet product goals, while fostering innovation and operational excellence. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of fintech, cloud, and AI-enabled engineering.

Responsibilities
  • Drive architecture and software development lifecycle standards to meet project objectives
  • Plan, develop and deploy high-performance, resilient systems for the bank
  • Lead engagements with senior stakeholders to propose suitable technical solutions
  • Manage technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams and ensure quality
  • Define technical strategy, advise on roadmaps and migration plans
  • Monitor progress against plans, ensuring scalability, performance and security
  • Coach and develop engineers, expanding impact through others
  • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies without compromising fundamentals
Key requirements
  • Established architect and senior engineer with financial technology experience
  • Hands-on expertise in digital assets, Web3, distributed ledger technology, and blockchain
  • Ability to lead through influence and set engineering direction
  • AI-first mindset with experience embedding AI across design, build, test, deployment and operations
  • Experience designing end-to-end solutions spanning data, integration, platforms, cloud, APIs and user-facing tech
  • Strong decision-making under evolving requirements, standards and market infrastructure
  • Proven track record in production cloud environments and DevSecOps practices
  • People development including coaching and line management responsibilities
  • Ability to validate designs, resolve complex engineering challenges and accelerate delivery
  • Experience evaluating emerging tech without compromising security or control
  • leadership and people development
  • stakeholder engagement
  • communication and influence
  • digital assets
  • Web3
  • distributed ledger technology

Reference: WJ-747_31224940

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