Principal Engineer - Digital Experience Platform

Principal Engineer - Digital Experience Platform

Hours:

35 hours per week, hybrid. Closing Date:
Wed, 29 Apr 2026.

The Digital Experience Platform (DEP) powers Skipton’s public websites and our Design System. Our websites and digital journeys serve our members, prospects, customers and brokers through millions of visits each month. Our Design System provides consistency across User Interfaces for our products and platforms, to ensure an accessible and intuitive digital experience.

As Principal Engineer, you set the engineering tenets, patterns and pave roads that these platforms and products (and the teams who build them) depend on every day. The technologies and platforms used within this platform group include our enterprise content management system Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), along with Java, React, React Native, and .NET. Operating across the platform scale, you will maximise the use of platform capabilities and strengthen our engineering fundamentals.

You will define engineering, technical design and delivery standards, drive adoption through the Golden Path, and establish guardrails that make security and compliance by design. You partner with Architecture, Platform Ownership, UI Design, Dev Sec Ops , Environments, Release, and Quality Engineering to turn strategy into small, safe, frequent changes, so DEP ships world‑class, user‑centric experiences that feel simple, personal and human, every week.

You’ll also lead and manage a cohort of engineers within DEP — setting goals, raising the hiring bar, growing craft through coaching and feedback, and building a healthy, high‑performance culture in partnership with the Platform Owner.

Not just another building society. Not just another job. We’re the fourth largest building society in the UK, and proudly mutual, owned by our members, not shareholders. That means every decision we make is about doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Our people say Skipton is a great place to work, and now it’s officially recognised as the happiest place to live in Great Britain.

Whatever your background or ambitions, we’ll help you grow, thrive, and shape a better future.

The Digital Experience Platform is Skipton’s public digital experience, our public sites and journeys are our digital branches for members, brokers and online visitors who come to Skipton to self‑serve for products, services, support and information. Our Design System ensures consistency, shaping the UI experience across multiple applications, products and platforms through several technologies. This is where the Principal Engineer becomes pivotal.

This role directly shapes the reliability, accessibility and performance of our public digital channels, ensuring our AEM and Design System foundations deliver fast, intuitive and inclusive customer‑facing journeys. You will ensure Skipton maximises the use of AEM platform capabilities, empowering engineers and AEM users, lead engineering for non‑AEM sites, and ensure our Design System has first‑class engineering.

Skipton is committed to flexibility, balance and wellbeing. Alongside hybrid working and a newly refurbished, collaborative head office, you’ll enjoy: annual discretionary bonus scheme, 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, rising to 30 with service, holiday trading scheme, up to 10% employer pension contribution, colleague mortgage (conditions apply), hybrid & electric car salary sacrifice scheme, private medical insurance, 3 paid volunteering days per year, inclusive colleague networks (Carers, Pride Alliance, and more), wellbeing benefits including cycle to work and discounted gym membership, a strong commitment to training and development.

As Principal Engineer for the Digital Experience Platform, you will set the technical direction, engineering tenets and pave roads that shape how our services are built, deployed and operated. You will operate with company‑wide influence defining the patterns, guardrails and architectural boundaries that enable teams to deliver small, safe, frequent changes with low lead times, high deployment frequency, low…