Data Engineer, VP

Closing date for applications: 16/09/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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.

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Data Engineer

• You’ll be the voice of our customers, using data to tell their stories and put them at the heart of all decision-making
• We’ll look to you to drive the build of effortless, digital first customer experiences
• If you’re ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you’re looking for
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Data Engineer, you’ll be looking to simplify our organisation by developing innovative data driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design, inspiring to be commercially successful while keeping our customers, and the bank’s data, safe and secure.

You’ll drive customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tool to gather and build data solutions. You’ll support our strategic direction by engaging with the data engineering community to deliver opportunities, along with carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through removal of manual stages
• Embedding new data techniques into our business through role modelling, training, and experiment design oversight
• Delivering a clear understanding of data platform costs to meet your departments cost saving and income targets
• Sourcing new data using the most appropriate tooling for the situation
• Developing solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with our streaming strategy

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies and experience of extracting value and features from large scale data. You’ll also bring practical experience of programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals.

Additionally, you’ll need:

• Expertise in designing and building AI agent architectures, including planning loops, tool integration, memory management, multi-turn conversations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, grounding, and output validation
• Strong experience in developing MCP servers/clients, APIs, microservices, asynchronous processing, queues, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and integrating AI solutions with enterprise systems and data platforms
• Proficiency in cloud-native infrastructure, deployment, scaling, IAM, secrets management, networking, observability, cost optimisation, and operating production-grade AI applications securely and reliably
• Ability to build evaluation frameworks, automated testing and regression controls, implement guardrails and compliance measures, ensure auditability and model governance, and provide technical leadership to drive engineering excellence
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage and manage a wide range of stakeholders

Welcome to our Chennai hub

Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.

Key facts:

• Surrounded by 10 acres
• Space for 3,600 colleagues
• Opened in 2009