WoW - Software Engineer
NatWest Group is hiring a WoW - Software Engineer in Chennai, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on NatWest Group.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Cobol, Jcl and Db2 among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- NatWest Group has 87 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Software Engineer responsible for engineering and maintaining robust banking software solutions using COBOL and related mainframe technologies.
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 working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
You’ll also be:
- Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
- 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
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
- 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:
- Experience of 4 to 7 years in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
09/11/2026How we rate this
WoW - Software Engineer at NatWest Group rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
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- $167k
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- Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- What's a project where you used Cobol hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Jcl in your day-to-day work.
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