Data Engineer

Closing date for applications: 14/07/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Flexible Schedule Available

This role is open to discussion on flexible scheduling such as part-time, compressed hours, or job share options.

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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

This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical expertise to collaborate with colleagues and build effortless, digital first customer experiences

You’ll be simplifying the bank by developing innovative data driven solutions, using insight to be commercially successful, and keeping our customers’ and the bank’s data safe and secure

Participating actively in the data engineering community, you’ll deliver opportunities to support the bank’s strategic direction while building your network across the bank

We're offering this role at associate level

What you'll do

As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in driving value for our customers by building data solutions. You’ll be carrying out data engineering tasks to build, maintain, test and optimise a scalable data architecture, as well as carrying out data extractions, transforming data to make it usable to data analysts and scientists, and loading data into data platforms.

You’ll also be:

Developing comprehensive knowledge of the bank’s data structures and metrics, advocating change where needed for product development

Practicing DevOps adoption in the delivery of data engineering, proactively performing root cause analysis and resolving issues

Collaborating closely with core technology and architecture teams in the bank to build data knowledge and data solutions

Developing a clear understanding of data platform cost levers to build cost effective and strategic solutions

Sourcing new data using the most appropriate tooling and integrating it into the overall solution to deliver for our customers

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a good understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and the end customer, as well as experience of extracting value and features from large scale data.

You’ll also demonstrate:

At least five years of experience of ETL technical design, including data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, and data warehousing and data modelling capabilities

Experience in engineering and maintaining innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust solutions using AI

Experience of using programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals

Good knowledge of modern code development practices

Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with 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