Overview
Software Engineer, Database Specialist – NatWest Group. Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and bank-wide collaboration to deliver cutting‑edge solutions for our customers.
What you’ll do
* Develop and maintain database infrastructure to support real‑time transaction processing, ensuring high availability and scalability.
* Work with business, application, data and infrastructure teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
* Apply Agile methods to manage the backlog and deliver incremental value.
* Design intentional architecture and drive emergent design through experimentation and prototyping.
* Provide insights into payments, collections and reconciliations flows, including cut‑off times, settlement cycles and exception handling.
* Mitigate operational risk, fraud detection and controls for high‑value transactions and sensitive financial data.
* Manage and optimise databases for real‑time transaction processing and performance monitoring.
Skills & Experience
* Strong full‑stack experience in software design and implementation, with the ability to solve complex problems using multiple programming languages.
* Expertise in complex requirement analysis and validation against business and system needs.
* Demonstrated leadership in implementing programming best practices around scalability, automation, virtualization, optimisation, availability and performance.
* Excellent collaboration skills, working effectively with business teams to deliver pragmatic, business‑focused solutions.
* Deep understanding of cloud‑native database services, provisioning, scaling and performance tuning.
* Advanced SQL skills for efficient query writing and performance optimisation across large datasets.
* Ability to design scalable, normalised and secure data models tailored to business requirements.
* Proficiency with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or custom scripts for performance troubleshooting.
* Proficiency in PowerShell, Python or Bash for automating routine tasks.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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