Leading the architecture and design of microservices, event-driven systems, BPMN workflows, and distributed platforms, ensuring scalability and resilience
Defining and maintaining architectural roadmaps, engineering standards, reusable components, and reference implementations
Driving legacy modernisation by transforming monoliths into cloud-native solutions and leading migration across IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS
Providing end-to-end technical governance across design, development, testing, security, performance, and release management, ensuring compliance
Partnering with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to deliver high-quality, high-performance solutions and measurable business value
Championing engineering excellence through automation, including unit and integration testing, performance tuning, observability, and production troubleshooting
Mentoring and leading engineers while tracking delivery progress, improving capability, and ensuring platforms meet functionality, scalability, and reliability goals
The skills you'll need
In addition, you'll need:
Deep expertise of at least 12 years in Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, and building scalable, cloud native applications across AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, PaaS, and CaaS platforms
Strong experience in Camunda BPMN, event-driven systems, APIs such as REST and SOAP, IAM technologies including Ping, TYK, and JWKS, and enterprise integration patterns
Solid data engineering capability across SQL and NoSQL technologies such as Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, and DB2, including schema design, optimisation, migrations, and high-volume processing
Proven technical architecture leadership across large-scale enterprise programs, including cloud migration, legacy transformation, and distributed system design
Expertise in DevOps and engineering excellence, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing such as TDD and Mockito, code quality tools, release management, and production readiness
A strong focus on non-functional excellence, including performance optimisation, security, accessibility, observability, and monitoring tools such as Splunk and APM
Strong leadership, communication, and Financial Crime expertise such as SAR, case management, and workflows, able to mentor teams, influence stakeholders, and drive governance and best practices
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
18/06/2026
Additional Information
Join us as a Principal Engineer
This is a high-impact position where you'll design and engineer modern, resilient, and cloud-ready platforms, with customer and user experience at the heart of every solution
You'll play a key role in our Engineering Centre of Excellence, elevating engineering standards, guiding strategic technology transformation, and enabling high-performing engineering teams
This role offers significant senior-level stakeholder exposure, broad architectural responsibilities, and the opportunity to influence and shape the bank's next generation technology landscapes
We're offering this role at vice president level
Royal Bank Of Scotland · Gurugram, India