Release & Deployment Leader (Hybrid) - Automate & Scale

Skipton Building Society; Cracoe; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days leave

Pension contributions

Volunteer days

Private medical insurance

Hybrid work

Cycle to work

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across engineering teams, enabling faster, safer releases with greater confidence.

You will lead cross-team release planning, drive automation and progressive delivery, and use metrics to identify bottlenecks, while building capability and a culture of shared ownership of release outcomes across platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading release and deployment programs.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and automation.
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams and manage dependencies at scale.
• Data-driven approach to improve delivery performance.

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 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.

Skills

Release management

Stakeholder management

DevOps practices

Cross-team collaboration

Metrics-driven decisions

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to shape how we deliver change across engineering teams, enabling faster, safer releases with greater confidence.

You will lead cross-team release planning, drive automation and progressive delivery, and use metrics to identify bottlenecks, while building capability and a culture of shared ownership of release outcomes across platforms.