Join us as a Lead Data Engineer
- We'll look to you to drive the build of effortless, digital-first customer experiences as you simplify our bank while keeping our data safe and secure
- Day-to-day, you'll be at the forefront of NatWest's AI-first strategy by leading the data engineering function that powers the Chief AI and Research Officer (CAIRO) team's cutting‑edge model development
- This is your opportunity to explore your leadership potential while bringing a competitive edge to your career profile by solving problems and creating smarter solutions
What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll champion modern engineering practices, leading a high‑performing team to simplify legacy complexity and deliver cloud‑native solutions that scale with the bank’s AI ambitions. You’ll bridge research and enterprise engineering, translating experimental AI needs into robust, production‑ready solutions in close partnership with architecture, security, and data governance teams.
We’ll look to you to drive impact by working in collaboration with CAIRO to accelerate delivery, reduce friction, and respond rapidly to evolving priorities. You’ll also deliver a clear understanding of data platform cost levers to meet department cost savings and income targets.
You’ll also be responsible for:
- Driving customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tools to gather and build data solutions
- Actively participating in the data engineering community to deliver opportunities to support our bank’s strategic direction
- Driving data engineering strategies to build complex, scalable data architecture and a customer feature‑rich dataset
- Working alongside colleagues, scrums and project teams while liaising with technology and engineering teams to build business stakeholder engagement and to develop data solutions
The skills you’ll need
We’re looking for someone with hands on experience with Teradata, strong communication skills and the ability to proactively engage and manage a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll have extensive experience working in a governed, and regulatory environment.
You’ll also need:
- Experience of extracting value and features from large‑scale data
- An understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and end customers and knowledge of modern code development practices
- Advanced experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, exploration and analysis, and data warehousing and data modelling capabilities
- Experience of using programming languages, alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals
- An understanding of modern code development practices
Hours: 35
Job Posting Closing Date: 27/10/2025
Ways of Working: Hybrid
