Principal engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year Requirements: Deep, modern engineering craft, including secure-by-design, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API and event patterns, resilience engineering, IaC, and policy-as-code CI/CD. Strong experience with an enterprise or cloud content management platform; Adobe Experience Manager (AEM/AEMaaCS) is highly desirable but not essential. Broad stack adaptability across Java-based and Microsoft .NET environments. Proven track record of shortening lead time and increasing safe, frequent deployment. Strong front-end and web expertise, including accessibility, site performance, technical optimisation, and cross-platform UI consistency. Real experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers while building a high-performance culture. Ability to partner effectively across architecture, platform ownership, UI design, DevSecOps, environments, release, QE, risk, and audit. The actual scope and impact of your current role should match a Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Senior Engineer level. Responsibilities: Set the engineering north star by defining the patterns, guardrails, and architectural boundaries that enable teams to ship with low lead times, high deployment frequency, low change-failure rates, and fast recovery. Own and evolve the Golden Path, including secure-by-default, policy-as-code CI/CD, progressive delivery, and on-demand, data-ready environments. Drive ValueFlowQuality by improving delivery flow, embedding quality into CI, strengthening test automation, and building release-linked observability. Mature the use of our enterprise CMS and Design System to maximise platform capabilities, improve developer experience, and provide strong foundations for front-end and web engineering. 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. Help shape how AI accelerates engineering across flow, code quality, testing, and deployment, and influence how we adopt it well. Work across our wider engineering and governance ecosystem, balancing speed with compliance-as-code. Technologies: AEM AI API CI/CD Cloud CMS DevSecOps Flow Support Java Web UX UI Design ASP.NET React React Native More: We are one of the UKs leading financial services companies and we are proudly member-owned rather than answerable to shareholders, so our decisions are focused on doing the right thing for customers and colleagues. This is a brand-new Principal Engineer opportunity at the heart of our digital experience transformation, with our public websites and digital journeys acting as our digital branches for members, brokers, prospects, and online visitors. We are a modern engineering organisation, partway through a major shift in platform ownership, flow, and delivery effectiveness, and you will be central to that journey. The role is hybrid based at our newly refurbished collaborative head office in Skipton, North Yorkshire, with three days a week on site and Tuesday likely as a fixed anchor. We offer up to £81,500 salary, an annual discretionary bonus, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 30, holiday trading, up to 10% employer pension matching, colleague mortgage options, hybrid and electric car salary sacrifice, private medical insurance, 3 paid volunteering days, inclusive colleague networks, wellbeing benefits, and strong training and development support. last updated 25 week of 2026