Release & Deployment Lead

Skipton Building Society; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Employer pension contribution

Cycle to work

Volunteering days

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across engineering teams. You will enable faster, safer releases with greater confidence, driving automation and progressive delivery while coordinating canaries and blue/green deployments.

You will work with Platform Owners, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, and Environments teams to optimise release practices and reduce bottlenecks using data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading release and deployment in complex tech environments.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery: CI/CD, DevOps, automated release pipelines.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and managing dependencies at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve release and deployment strategies for safe, efficient delivery across platforms.
• Lead cross-team release planning and coordination; manage dependencies and environment readiness.
• Drive adoption of automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery (canary, blue/green).
• Use metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance.
• Lead and develop a small team; foster continuous improvement and shared ownership of releases.

Skills

Release management

Deployment

CI/CD

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Canary deployments

Blue/green deployments

Delivery metrics

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across engineering teams. You will enable faster, safer releases with greater confidence, driving automation and progressive delivery while coordinating canaries and blue/green deployments.

You will work with Platform Owners, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, and Environments teams to optimise release practices and reduce bottlenecks using data-driven insights.