At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering for digital experiences impacting millions, shaping the future of online services.
- Company: A leading member-owned financial services company committed to innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, competitive salary, generous leave, and wellness perks.
- Other info: Join a modern engineering team with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of digital transformation and make a real difference in users' lives.
- Qualifications: Experience in enterprise CMS, cloud platforms, and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
This is a brand-new Principal Engineer role at the heart of that work, and it's a genuine seat at the senior technical table.
Our client's public websites and digital journeys are their digital branches, the front door for members, brokers, prospects and online visitors who come to self-serve for products, services and support. Help set the engineering north star for digital experiences seen by millions of people every month.
Why this role matters
- You'll own the engineering tenets, patterns and paved roads that the Digital Experience Platform and the teams who build on it depend on every day.
- You'll set the technical direction across an enterprise content management platform, the Design System, and the wider stack (with various systems built across .Net, React, React Native & Java), and you'll make small, safe, frequent change the norm rather than the exception.
- Set the engineering north star. Define the patterns, guardrails and architectural boundaries that let teams ship with low lead times, high deployment frequency, low change-failure rate and fast recovery.
- Design and evolve secure-by-default, policy-as-code CI/CD, progressive delivery and on-demand, data-ready environments.
- Improve delivery flow, embed quality inside CI, strengthen test automation, and build release-linked observability that ties every deployment to real signals.
- Mature use of the enterprise CMS and Design System maximising platform capabilities, lifting developer experience, and giving front-end and web engineering first-class foundations.
- Coach and mentor engineers, functionally lead a cohort within the platform, run Communities of Practice, raise the hiring bar, and improve decisions through clear technical narratives.
- Shape how AI accelerates engineering from flow, code quality and testing through to deployment and help set the direction for how we adopt it well.
- Deep, modern engineering craft secure-by-design, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API/event patterns, resilience engineering, IaC and policy-as-code CI/CD.
- Enterprise CMS experience strong experience with an enterprise / cloud content management platform is what matters here.
- Stack adaptability the platform is partly Java-based and partly Microsoft (.NET), so transferable engineering judgement matters far more than any single language.
- Delivery physics mastery a proven track record of shortening lead time and increasing safe, fast deployment frequency.
- Front-end & web expertise accessibility, site performance, technical optimisation and cross-platform UI consistency.
- People leadership real experience coaching, mentoring and developing engineers, and building a high-performance culture where psychological safety and high standards co-exist.
- Cross-functional influence you partner seamlessly with Architecture, Platform Ownership, UI Design, DevSecOps, Environments, Release, QE, Risk and Audit, balancing speed with compliance-as-code.
A note on titles: you might currently be a Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager, Tech Lead or Senior Engineer.
Where you'll work
- Hybrid, based at newly refurbished, collaborative head office in Skipton, North Yorkshire.
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme.
- ~25 days' annual leave + bank holidays, rising one day per year of service to a maximum of 30.
- ~ Holiday trading scheme buy and sell additional annual leave.
- ~ Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum).
- ~ Colleague mortgage (conditions apply).
- ~ Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric cars.
- ~ Private medical insurance for all colleagues.
- ~ Inclusive colleague networks to join, including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups.
- ~ Wellbeing benefits including cycle-to-work and discounted gym membership.
- ~ A genuine commitment to training and development.
About the organisation
Our client is one of the UK's leading financial services companies proudly member-owned rather than answerable to shareholders. Whatever your background or ambitions, they'll help you grow, thrive and shape a better future.
This is a genuinely modern engineering organisation, partway through a real transformation around platform ownership, flow and delivery effectiveness and you'd be central to it.
This search is being led exclusively by James Westwood at WRK digital, who is handling all initial conversations and shortlisting on behalf of WRK digital. For a confidential discussion about the role, the team and the wider engineering transformation underway, get in touch directly.
BIM Engineer/Senior BIM Engineer/ Principal BIM Engineer in York employer: WRK DIGITAL LTD
Join a forward-thinking financial services company in Skipton, North Yorkshire, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping digital experiences for millions. With a strong commitment to employee growth, a hybrid working model, and a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private medical insurance, and a supportive work culture, this is an excellent opportunity for engineers looking to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a balanced lifestyle.
