Data Engineer, VP

Closing date for applications: 30/07/2026

Location Gurugram, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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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

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 to design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using AWS cloud-native services and modern data engineering frameworks to support both batch and real-time streaming workloads, ensuring high availability, performance, and fault tolerance across the data platform.

You'll also establish and govern end-to-end data lineage, metadata management, and data cataloguing capabilities to enable traceability, impact analysis, regulatory compliance, and improved transparency across enterprise data products.

Additionally, you’ll need:

Define and implement data quality frameworks through automated validation, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability of critical datasets

Apply DevOps and DataOps best practices by implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes. Demonstrate a good working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools such as Terraform to support the delivery and management of data solutions

Work effectively within AWS-based cloud environments, possessing a solid understanding of core AWS services relevant to data and analytics platforms, including security, monitoring, and operational best practices

Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and business teams to support the evolution of the Data & Analytics platform, contributing ideas and improvements that enhance scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency

Evaluate and improve existing data engineering processes, standards, and platform capabilities, helping to drive continuous improvement and adoption of cloud engineering best practices

Welcome to our Gurugram hub

Spanning 437,000 sq. ft., our campus in Gurugram features two state-of-the-art towers – 1A and 2A at the Candor TechSpace in Sector 21.

Key facts:

Surrounded by 28 acres

Space for 4,100 colleagues

Opened in 2010