Senior Cloud Platform Manager

Hours:

35 hours, hybrid - Skipton

Closing Date:

Thu, 16 Oct 2025

We’re looking for a bold, strategic leader to take the reins of our cloud platform and elevate it to new heights. As our Senior Cloud Platform Manager, you won’t just manage infrastructure—you’ll help create the future of how our organisation delivers value through technology.

You’ll be the driving force behind our Cloud Centre of Excellence, setting the vision and building a high-performance culture that champions resilience, scalability, security, and innovation. You’ll lead empowered teams of Product Owners and Engineers, inspiring them to push boundaries, unlock new capabilities, and deliver seamless experiences that serve our members and our mission.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of business strategy and cutting-edge technology. You’ll shape long-term cloud adoption, drive platform maturity, and ensure our cloud ecosystem is a catalyst for transformation across a complex and fast-moving change portfolio.

If you’re a forward-thinking leader who thrives in pace, sees technology as a strategic enabler, and knows how to turn vision into reality this could be the role for you.

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job.

We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.

Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will work as part of the IT department, reporting into the Head of IT, which is part of the broader Technology, Transformation and Resilience function of around 400 technology professionals

What’s In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

What Will You Be Doing?

As the Senior Cloud Platform Owner, you’ll be the driving force behind unlocking the full potential of our Azure ecosystem—showcasing its transformative impact across the organisation and for our members. You’ll create a platform that’s not just resilient, secure, and scalable—but frictionless for engineering teams to innovate, build, and deploy solutions that truly matter. With a dynamic and complex change portfolio in play, your mission is to champion the cloud as a strategic enabler—connecting platform capabilities directly to business outcomes and member value. Your focus will span three high-impact domains

Cloud Strategy & Vision:

Craft and evolve a forward-looking cloud adoption roadmap rooted in our purpose and mission. Be the voice of Azure—demonstrating its business value, advocating its future potential, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement that delivers real enhancements.

Platform Health & Governance:

Own the operational heartbeat of the platform. Ensure it runs like clockwork—scalable, secure, compliant, and cost-optimized. Build and lead a Cloud Centre of Excellence that unites stakeholders around best practices, governance, and member-centric value

Leadership & Capability Growth:

Lead Platform and Product Owners, and matrixed engineering teams, to deliver on strategic goals. Elevate internal capabilities, mature our cloud operations, and foster a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

What Do We Need From You?

We’re looking for a visionary leader who can ignite passion and purpose across technology teams—someone who builds a bold, inspiring vision that connects technical excellence with real-world impact for our members. You’ll be the kind of leader who makes engineers love what they do and understand why it matters.

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring deep experience in owning and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms—ideally Azure—and leading organisations through transformative journeys that blend cutting-edge technology with meaningful cultural change.

This is more than a leadership role—it’s a chance to shape the future of our cloud ecosystem and the people who power it. The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven leadership experience of technology teams, driving technical excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience of improving the delivery of value, flow and quality through embedded systems thinking, agile, lean and devops practices to accelerate delivery.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to work across teams to build a shared vision and roadmap for value generation for members and internal platform consumers. Ability to influence outside of own function.
• Experience of managing an enterprise scale cloud environment involving ownership of overall environment health and resilience, large budgets and operational risks. Good understanding of operational resilience needs in the context of large technology platforms supporting critical business operations in a regulated environment.
• Experience of cloud centre of excellence implementation with demonstratable knowledge from inception through to ongoing operation and oversight.
• Experience of managing significant supplier relationships, working in partnership to derive value from the relationship and identifying mutual benefits.

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