The role
Job description
Closing date for applications: 26/10/2026
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 Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
- Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
- It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
- We're offering this role at associate level
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll be a key technical member of the Enterprise Services team in India within Middleware (Core Solutions), responsible for designing, building and operating high‑performance, secure and scalable integration solutions.
You'll bring strong, hands‑on expertise in Java/Python; middleware integration platforms (IBM App Connect, IBM MQ); container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and event‑driven architectures. You'll also apply sound technical knowledge to drive end‑to‑end solution design, technical delivery, performance optimization and the effective use of AI/LLM capabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
You’ll also be:
- Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
- Contributing to the architecture, design, build and manage services as required by the Enterprise Service Platform team using IBM App Connect, IBM MQ and API platforms
- Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners and Jenkins
- Designing and building cloud‑native, containerized solutions on OpenShift/Kubernetes
- 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
- Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you'll need
To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.
You’ll also need:
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3+ years of hands‑on software engineering and integration experience in SOA / IBM middleware applications involving Websphere Message Broker and IBM WebSphere MQ
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Strong programming skills in Java and Python, including multithreading and concurrent programming
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Hands-on experience with IBM App Connect, IBM MQ and API technologies like SOAP/XML, REST/JSON, YAML, XSL, ESQL, WSDL, XSD
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Experience with CP4I and ArgoCD (or similar GitOps tools)
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Proven ability to implement integration patterns (orchestration, aggregation, pub/sub, fire‑and‑forget, etc.)
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Experience with automation, static code analysis, code coverage, and automated testing & deployment
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Experience with DxAPM, OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Splunk, or similar observability tools
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
Our tech stack
Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
Front end
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS
Back end
- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics
DevOps
- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform
Data
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake