Principal Engineer - Member Experience Platform
Core
Define company-level technical direction, delivery standards, and architectural patterns for Skipton's Member Experience Platform (Mobile App, Member Portal, Identity) serving over a million members.
Role type
Principal Engineer (Platform Architecture & Delivery Strategy)
Builds
Cross-cutting platform capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery frameworks, on-demand environments, and observability standards for the Member Experience Platform.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud-Native Platform Engineering
Required skills
Cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API/event patterns, resilience engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), policy-as-code CI/CD, observability, progressive delivery strategies, trunk-based development, technical leadership, coaching, hiring strategy.
Preferred skills
Modernization roadmap planning, decoupling legacy systems, contract testing, performance engineering, security-by-design implementation.
Technologies
Cloud-native frameworks, CI/CD tools, container orchestration, monitoring/observability stacks, IaC tools.
Responsibilities
Set engineering tenets and paved roads for the platform; design and evolve the Golden Path for delivery; drive Value-Flow-Quality metrics across squads; own the 1-3 year modernization roadmap; coach senior engineers and shape the hiring bar.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
