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IT Platforms & Engineering Manager (6m FTC)

Location: Hybrid

Hours: 35 - Talk to us about Flexible Working

Salary: From £65,000 DOE

Contract Type: Full-Time, Fixed Term Contract

Closing Date: 08 April 2026

Contract Duration: 6m FTC

IT Platforms & Engineering Manager (6m FTC)

BELONG – There’s no place like Principality 

At Principality, belonging isn’t just a value — it’s how we work every day. As a colleague, you’re already part of a supportive and inclusive community where your wellbeing, individuality, and life outside of work are genuinely respected. This internal opportunity is a chance to continue your journey with us, build on your experience, and grow your career within Principality. 

We know that great work happens when people feel connected — to each other, to our purpose, and to the communities we serve. That’s why we focus on balance, invest in wellbeing, and encourage continuous learning and development across the organisation. 

Why consider this opportunity? 

This role offers an opportunity to further develop your skills and make a meaningful contribution within Principality, while continuing to benefit from the culture and ways of working you already know: 

  • Flexible hybrid working – Our established hybrid approach supports flexibility while maintaining collaboration. This role includes a minimum of 8 days per month based in our Cardiff office. 

  • An inclusive and supportive culture – We’re proud to be recognised as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (ranked 27th in 2025), reflecting our ongoing commitment to inclusion and belonging for all colleagues. 

  • Purpose-led work – Our continued recognition for customer satisfaction, including Double Gold Awards at the Fairer Finance Awards 2025 for Savings and Mortgages, reflects the impact colleagues make every day. 

  • Strong colleague engagement – Engagement scores consistently above 85% demonstrate the positive environment we strive to maintain together. 

  • Wellbeing support – Our Belong benefits package continues to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing throughout your career with us. 

These achievements are built by our people and reflect our shared commitment to supporting one another and delivering for our members. When it comes to belonging, there truly is no place like Principality — and this role is an opportunity to continue growing as part of it. 

As a result of our IT Platforms & Engineering Manager heading off on Family leave, we are seeking to appoint an Interim IT Platforms & Engineering Manager on a 6-month Fixed Term contract, to lead our Platforms & Engineering function and play a key role in transforming how we deliver technology across the Society.

About the role

As our Interim IT Platforms & Engineering Manager, you’ll be a key member of the IT Leadership team, responsible for the performance, development, and wellbeing of your engineering teams. Your primary focus will be on people management and delivery oversight — ensuring your teams are supported, engaged, and equipped to deliver high‑quality outcomes.

While you’ll collaborate with others on strategic direction and tooling decisions, this role more about leading people, managing workloads, and ensuring smooth, predictable delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

  • People Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and development for engineers. Build a positive culture, support wellbeing and ensure teams have what they need to thrive.
  • Delivery Management: Oversee delivery plans, team workloads, prioritisation and progress. Remove blockers and ensure teams can deliver effectively and on time.
  • Release Coordination: Ensure smooth and frequent software releases by supporting DevOps-aligned ways of working.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintain strong relationships across Change Delivery, Infrastructure and Service Operations. Communicate progress clearly and ensure alignment.
  • Environment & Platform Oversight: Work with technical specialists to maintain stable and reliable environments across on-prem and Azure workloads.
  • Problem Solving: Support teams in identifying and resolving issues to maintain system health and operational stability.
  • Security & Compliance: Work with relevant teams to ensure platforms and processes remain secure and compliant.

Technical Skills:

  • Understanding if cloud platforms and infrastructure.
  • Awareness of infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
  • Understanding of non-functional testing (NFT) categories.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to support continuous improvement and help teams work more effectively.

Previous experience:

  • Demonstratable experience in leading and developing technical teams.
  • Experience working within the Software Delivery Lifecycle.
  • Understanding of DevOps-aligned ways of working.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to lead a modern engineering function, empower a brilliant team, and deliver platforms and processes that enable exceptional software delivery, we’d love to hear from you.

 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.

If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team at -recruitment@principality.co.uk

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