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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure. So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter. Job description This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom. Join us as an Engagement and Partnerships Manager - In this crucial role, you'll lead innovative initiatives across the bank by collaboratively identifying potential opportunities and strategic partnerships that drive purposeful outcomes - We'll look to you to build and strengthen relationships both within and outside the bank to identify and progress the most strategically impactful innovation opportunities - This is a great opportunity to expand your leadership profile as you collaborate with the internal and external stakeholders to identify and understand key focus areas for exploration What you'll do As an Engagement and Partnerships Manager in Open Innovation, you'll help identify, explore, and validate opportunities that create value for customers and the bank. Working at the intersection of emerging technology, customer needs, and business strategy, you'll bring external insights, innovative thinking, and strong partnerships to shape the bank's future. You'll also work closely with start-ups, technology providers, academic institutions, and other ecosystem partners to source new capabilities and opportunities. Internally, you'll build strong stakeholder relationships, secure sponsorship for innovation initiatives, and help take ideas from discovery and experimentation through to implementation and scale. In addition, you'll be: - Identifying and developing innovation opportunities aligned to strategic priorities and emerging technology trends - Building and managing relationships across the external innovation ecosystem to source ideas, capabilities, and partnerships - Bringing market and technology insights to inform strategy, decision-making, and investment priorities - Collaborating with stakeholders across the bank to build support, manage delivery, and maximise impact - Representing innovation initiatives through governance forums, while ensuring alignment with relevant risk and policy requirements The skills you'll need We're looking for someone with a strong understanding of the external innovation landscape and its impact on customers, with the ability to translate emerging technologies, market trends, and ecosystem developments into meaningful opportunities for the business. You should also have a good grasp of financial services strategy and be excited by the opportunity to explore, test, and scale technology-enabled propositions. To succeed in this role, you must be comfortable collaboratively incubating ideas, identifying high-potential opportunities, and shaping innovation pathways informed by developments both within financial services and across adjacent sectors. In addition, you'll need: - The ability to build productive relationships and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, while managing commercial discussions and partnership negotiations where required - Proven experience in shaping and delivering innovation initiatives, with the ability to adapt to new insights, navigate ambiguity, and progress opportunities through structured innovation pathways - Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to define experimentation and validation approaches, take concepts from discovery to implementation, and make informed investment recommendations - Experience building and managing relationships with a broad range of external partners, including start-ups, scale-ups, academic institutions, technology providers, and industry networks - A strong understanding of emerging technology trends and their implications for financial services, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, data, and digital platforms - Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders, build alignment, and secure support for new opportunities

We're building something better This role is in NatWest Boxed At NatWest Boxed, we're a high performing team that's always on the lookout for exceptional people. We encourage an inclusive and diverse working environment, where teamwork, input and collaboration is valued no matter your level. Job description This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom. Join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test - This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Development Engineer in Test - Work in customer-focused agile squads and collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define the next iteration of NatWest Boxed - Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role What you'll do You'll be working collaboratively across our missions to define and continually improve our testing strategy for new and existing products. You'll also drive the direction of our testing chapter to ensure it maintains the highest standards of technology and process. You'll also be: - Developing clean, elegant and reusable code that is easy to maintain and extend - Building scalable automated testing systems that enable us to ship value to customers at pace - Supporting other engineers to test their software and act as a subject matter expert - Working with stakeholders across the business to shape the future of quality engineering at NatWest Boxed and put long-term interests of our customers at the heart of key decisions The skills you'll need You'll need hands-on experience with common back end test automation frameworks, and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline. We are also looking for people with an awareness of cloud infrastructure and configuration. You'll also need: - Hands on experience with ReactNative, front-end test automation frameworks and integrating these into the continuous deployment pipeline - Knowledge of software performance and automates security testing techniques and tooling - A strong understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - Experience delivering and testing distributed microservices as part of an agile team

Job description This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom. Join us as a UI Software Engineer - This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a UI Software Engineer - You'll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system - Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role What you'll do Working in a permanent feature team, you'll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You'll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives. You'll also be: - Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog - Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs - Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping - Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns The skills you'll need We're looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You'll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements. Additionally, you'll demonstrate: - Extensive experience designing and developing modern, responsive, accessible user interfaces using React and related front-end technologies, with a strong focus on usability, performance, and customer experience - Hands-on experience building and supporting mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms, delivering intuitive and engaging user journeys - Strong experience working with wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, user journeys, and interaction flows, collaborating closely with UX/UI designers, product owners, and business stakeholders to influence product and design decisions - Good full-stack engineering experience, including developing Java-based microservices using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ - Experience applying test-driven development (TDD), automated testing frameworks, unit testing, mocking and stubbing techniques, alongside Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and associated toolsets - A growth mindset with a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply new technologies, tools, and engineering practices, contributing wherever needed across the technology stack to deliver customer value, with a focus on continuous improvement and engineering excellence