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Principle Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong background in software engineering, software design and architecture
  • Experience in Avaloq scripting and parameterisation
  • Deep experience of Avaloq securities-trading (STEX) component
  • Understanding of trade lifecycle and regulatory requirements

Responsibilities

  • Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance solutions
  • Produce complex software rapidly with high quality
  • Collaborate to optimize software engineering capability
  • Work across the full life cycle from requirements analysis to deployment and operations

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Mentorship
  • Communication

About the company

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NatWest

  • Banking
  • Large
  • 10,001+
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.

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Job description

Join us as a Principle Engineer


  • This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
  • You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
  • Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
  • You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend at least twice a week working from our London or Bristol office

What you'll do


In your new role, you'll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You'll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, 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 code
  • Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need


You'll need a strong background in software engineering, software design and architecture, with the seniority to own a complex workstream end to end and set the engineering standard for others. You'll bring experience of hands-on Avaloq scripting and parameterisation, including Report Writer, Workflows (WFC/WFA), Order Validations, Migration Scripts, Interface Definitions and related modules.


This is a hands-on build role, you'll be doing the Avaloq customisation and development yourself, alongside the wider project team, not only designing or overseeing it.


You'll also need deep experience of the Avaloq securities-trading (STEX) component and the securities trade lifecycle within a Core Banking or Wealth Management environment, supporting our investment-dealing capability as part of a major migration programme.


Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:


  • Hands-on expertise in Avaloq STEX, order lifecycle, business-unit setup and order piping (nostro or vostro containers, SWIFT messaging and message-delivery rules, pooling and placement)
  • Experience across the full trade lifecycle including order generation, pooling, placement, execution via an OMS, settlement and reconciliation, with awareness of MiFID II and EMIR transaction reporting and best execution
  • A track record of leading delivery, owning a workstream autonomously, coordinating with testers, business users and architects, mentoring engineers and providing post-go-live support
  • Warehousing or bulk-rebalance trading, OMGEO, CTM settlement matching and T+1, FIX connectivity, corporate actions, FX, fund dealing, and the Avaloq integration spine would be desirable

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

12/11/2026Ways of Working:Hybrid

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