Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work
Working with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bank
Drives adoption of AI, machine learning, and emerging agentic platforms to transform financial services capabilities
Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools
Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent
The skills you'll need
And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you'll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.
You'll demonstrate:
Excellent leadership and management skills
Embeds security-first engineering practices by championing DevSecOps, secure coding, and architectural security patterns to meet stringent financial regulatory requirements and protect critical data assets
Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
Good communication skills
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
12/06/2026
Additional Information
Join us as a Principal Engineer - Commercial Banking, Director
If you're an experienced software engineer and you're ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential
You'll harness your extensive experience (Cloud and AI models to enhance financial services) and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexity.
Application Security by integrating DevSecOps and security patterns to meet rigorous financial regulatory standards and safeguard data integrity.
Proven track record in full-cycle system design and development, optimizing infrastructure, and ability to influence cross-functional technical teams.
You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues
Royal Bank Of Scotland · Bengaluru, India