Skipton Building Society
Principal Engineer - Digital Experience Platform
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Principal Engineer – Digital Experience Platform
Hours & Location
- 35 hours per week, hybrid
- Closing Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026
About the Role & Kindred Spirit
The Digital Experience Platform (DEP) is the backbone of Skipton Building Society’s public-facing websites and Design System, serving millions of visits monthly to members, prospects, customers and brokers. Our mission is to deliver fast, intuitive and inclusive digital journeys that feel simple, personal, and human.
As Principal Engineer, you will:
✔ Set the engineering tenets, patterns, and paved roads that shape how our platforms and products are built, deployed, and operated ✔ Maximise platform capabilities while strengthening engineering fundamentals ✔ Define technical design and delivery standards, drive adoption of the Golden Path, and establish guardrails for security and compliance ✔ Partner across teams (Architecture, UI Design, DevSecOps, Environments, Release, Quality Engineering) to turn strategy into safe, frequent changes ✔ Lead and manage a team of engineers, fostering growth through coaching, mentorship, and culture-building
Why This Role Matters
Skipton’s public websites and journeys are its digital branches—critical touchpoints for self-service, support, and information. The Design System ensures consistency in UI interfaces across applications, products and platforms.
Your impact: 🔹 Ensures reliability, accessibility, and performance of digital channels 🔹 Maximises AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) and Design System capabilities 🔹 Drives first-class engineering alongside a culture of psychological safety and high standards
What’s in It for You
Kind Workplace, Kind Rewards
- Hybrid working with a modern, collaborative head office
- 25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays), rising to 30 days with tenure
- Holiday trading scheme
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution
- Colleague mortgage support (conditions apply)
- Hybrid & electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Private medical insurance
- 3 paid volunteering days per year
- Inclusive colleague networks (Carers, Pride Alliance & more)
- Wellbeing benefits: Cycle-to-work, discounted gym memberships
- Strong commitment to training and development
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What You’ll Be Doing
Key Responsibilities
🔸 Set the technical direction—define patterns, guardrails, and architectural boundaries for small, safe, frequent deployments with low lead times and high reliability.
🔸 Design and evolve the Golden Path: Secure-by-default CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery frameworks, and ephemeral, data-ready environments.
🔸 Drive Value-Flow-Quality (VFQ)—optimise delivery flows, enhance test automation, integrate observability with deployment metrics (logs, traces, golden signals).
🔸 Lead platform evolution: Collaborate with DevSecOps, Environments, Release & Quality Engineering to unify design, security, compliance-as-code and operability standards.
🔸 Elevate engineering excellence: Mentor engineers, lead Communities of Practice (COPs), shape hiring standards, and author technical decision narratives.
In short: Twilight Zone’d to build a system where fast, safe, user-centred tech flows seamlessly.
What We Need from You
Prerequisites
🌟 Proven leadership in high-performance delivery (VFQ mastery)
- Decreased lead times, increased deployment frequency with low change-failure rates
- Fluent in automation-first pipelines, trunk-based development, progressive delivery, and observability.
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🌟 Deep craft knowledge: Cloud-native + secure-by-design
- Expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), web platforms, APIs, resilience engineering, IaC, policy-as-code, and testability.
🌟 User-centred software innovator
- Use data, telemetry and user insights to align public face (websites, AEM experiences) with real needs.
- Make digital journeys human-friendly, simple, and accessible.
🌟 Organisational multiplier
- Shapes hiring standards, mentoring, engineering patterns, and enterprise-wide influence.
🌟 Values-led, evidence-driven mindset
- Aligns with Be Accountable, Be Curious, Be Collaborative, Be Brave
- Celebrates safe, fast releases backed by metrics, SLOs, and error budgets.
What You’ll Bring
- Deep modern engineering expertise: Cloud-native architecture, security, resilience, IaC, progressive delivery.
- AEM/Hybris craft mastery: Improve developer experience while maximizing platform capabilities.
- Front-end/web expertise: Accessibility, performance, modular UI consistency via Design System.
- People leadership: Experience in coaching multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Influenced-driven:SEAMLESS COLLABORATION ACROSS Architects, DevSecOps, QA, UI and compliance stakeholders.
Join Us
Skipton isn’t just the fourth largest building society in the UK—it’s a mutual, making decisions with customers and colleagues at heart. Ranked internationally as the “happiest place to live”, we’re building digital experiences where everyone thrives.
Ready to make an impact? Dive into your legacy today. 🚀
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