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About the Job
NatWest Group is seeking a driven Associate Software Engineer with a strong focus on PySpark to join our team in Chennai. In this role, you will engineer and maintain high-performance, secure, and robust data solutions. You will collaborate within a feature team, contributing to the full software development lifecycle, from initial development and testing to enhancement, maintenance, and deployment. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career, hone your technical skills in areas like PySpark, AWS data services, and DevOps, and build a strong network of stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, testing, and implementing innovative software solutions, scripts, and tools that deliver business value. You will work closely with other engineers, architects, and business analysts, ensuring the quality and rapid delivery of complex and critical software. You'll be part of permanent teams responsible for the complete lifecycle of our software assets and will actively contribute to optimizing our software engineering capabilities.
We are looking for candidates with a solid foundation in software engineering, design, and architecture, with a clear understanding of how your expertise benefits our customers. The ideal candidate will possess at least seven years of experience with PySpark, AWS data engineering ecosystems (e.g., Athena, Glue Catalog, S3, EMR Serverless), and Airflow. Experience with development and testing tools, bug tracking systems, wikis, multiple programming languages or low-code toolsets, and DevOps and Agile methodologies is also essential. A proven ability to solve highly complex, analytical, and numerical problems, along with experience in implementing programming best practices for scalability, automation, and performance, will be highly valued.