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
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
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 at least five years of experience in data engineering and 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:
- Experience in Apache Spark for distributed data processing and transformations
- Proficiency in AWS EMR, Glue, Athena, and S3 for scalable data processing and storage
- 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
