Release and Deployment Manager

SBS Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Holiday allowance

Pension matching

Private medical insurance

Volunteer days

Cycle to work

Training & development

Job summary

SBS Skipton Building Society is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across our engineering teams. You will oversee release planning, coordinate dependencies, and drive faster, safer deployments with increasing confidence.

You'll lead modern release practices, leverage data to remove bottlenecks, and develop a small team dedicated to continuous improvement and high delivery standards across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Release, Deployment, or Service Transition leadership within complex technology environments.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and automated release processes.
• Experience working with multiple teams and stakeholders to coordinate releases and manage dependencies at scale.
• Ability to use data and metrics to improve release performance, reduce risk, and enhance delivery outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Defining and evolving release and deployment strategies that enable safe, efficient, and frequent delivery across multiple platforms
• Leading cross-team release planning and coordination, ensuring visibility of dependencies, risks, and environment readiness
• Driving the adoption of modern release practices including automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery approaches such as canary and blue/green deployments
• Using data and engineering metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
• Leading and developing a small team, building capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes

Job description

Hours: 35 hr per week Closing Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026

We're looking for a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across Skipton enabling teams to release faster, safer, and with greater confidence. If you're passionate about modern release practices, improving flow, and removing bottlenecks at scale, this is a role where you can make a real impact.

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job. We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members. Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

The team you will be joining

You will be joining our Engineering and Service Delivery community, working closely with Platform Owners, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, and Environments teams. This is a highly collaborative role that sits at the heart of how change is delivered across the organisation. Operating across multiple platforms, you'll provide oversight and coordination of releases, ensuring teams are aligned, environments are ready, and risks are understood and managed. You'll play a key role in evolving our release practices towards automation, observability, and progressive delivery, while enabling teams to move faster without compromising stability or compliance.

What's In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space. We have a range of other benefits available to you including:

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• We care about your health and wellbeing - we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

What Will You Be Doing?

• Defining and evolving release and deployment strategies that enable safe, efficient, and frequent delivery across multiple platforms
• Leading cross-team release planning and coordination, ensuring visibility of dependencies, risks, and environment readiness
• Driving the adoption of modern release practices including automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery approaches such as canary and blue/green deployments
• Using data and engineering metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
• Leading and developing a small team, building capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes

What Do We Need From You?

• Proven experience in Release, Deployment, or Service Transition leadership within complex technology environments
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and automated release processes
• Experience working with multiple teams and stakeholders to coordinate releases and manage dependencies at scale
• Ability to use data and metrics to improve release performance, reduce risk, and enhance delivery outcomes
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and business teams

Not just another building society. Not just another job. We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members. Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

Why? It's just the way we are. We care about sustainability and look to the long-term for both colleagues and customers. And we know that when we build better futures as individuals, we build better futures as a business.