Job Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid: based at any of our UK offices Birmingham, London, Telford, Edinburgh with time spent working in the office and at home

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: 15th October

Salary and benefits: from £75,000 (dependant upon experience) plus an indicative bonus range of 16–32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Who are we?

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters so you can bring your best, every day.

The role

This senior, hands-on role will shape and operate the orchestration and developer platform solutions supporting our Pensions & Savings technology services. You will lead delivery across developer tooling, automation and reusable workflows—including GitHub, GitHub Copilot, developer portals, artefact and container management, observability and cloud integration—while partnering across application, architecture, security, risk and technology teams to provide secure, governed and scalable developer experiences.

What you will do

• Build, operate and continuously improve secure, reliable and reusable internal developer platform capabilities for Pensions & Savings.
• Create and evolve golden paths and automated onboarding journeys that help engineering teams onboard new and existing workloads, adopt approved developer tooling and deliver software consistently.
• Administer and improve GitHub and GitHub Copilot capabilities, including organisation, team and repository onboarding, access, policies, rulesets and reusable workflows.
• Develop robust platform automation using appropriate combinations of GitHub Actions, APIs, infrastructure as code and scripting, replacing manual or inconsistent processes wherever practical.
• Support secure artefact and container management, including integration with build and delivery workflows and appropriate controls for access, provenance, retention and vulnerability management.
• Contribute to developer portal and self-service capabilities that improve discoverability, documentation, service ownership and access to standard platform journeys.
• Embed security, identity, governance, compliance and observability into platform services and onboarding processes, while maintaining the operational health and auditability of enterprise developer tooling.
• Partner with application, product, architecture, security, risk and operations teams to resolve complex issues, support effective use of tools such as Jira and Confluence across the software development lifecycle, and improve platform capabilities through documentation, enablement and feedback.