Principal Engineer - Python, VP

Overview

Principal Engineer role at vice president level, designing and engineering software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective, and contributing to the architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence.

What you'll do

• Create great customer outcomes through engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, with technology designs that are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.
• Work with software engineers on the production and prototyping of innovative ideas.
• Engage with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these ideas in wider contexts by incorporating relevant architectures.
• Design and develop software with a focus on automation of build, test and deployment activities.
• Develop the discipline of software engineering across the business.
• Define, create and provide oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.
• Work within a platform or feature team with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools that enable delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations.
• Define and develop architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains.
• Design, produce, test and implement working code, applying Agile methods and DevOps techniques to software development.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture.
• Experience developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
• Expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools.
• Significant and demonstrable experience implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
• Strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, with experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and production-grade applications, APIs, and distributed services.
• Experience developing AI agents and GenAI solutions using Large Language Models, agent orchestration frameworks, tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering techniques.
• Ability to productionise AI solutions with appropriate evaluation frameworks, observability, security controls, responsible AI guardrails, and human oversight mechanisms.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools.
• A background in designing or implementing APIs.

Details

• Location: Gurugram.
• Hours: 45 per week.
• Job posting closing date: 06/11/2026.