Release Train Engineer

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Team Lean Agile Centre of Excellence

Working Pattern - Hybrid 2days per week in any of the UK Vitality Offices (Bournemouth London or Stockport).Full time hours per week.

Please note we have 3 open positions; 1 x permanent 1 x Fixed Term Contract (12 months) and 1 x internal secondment (12 months).

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

Coaching & People Development
Flow Optimisation & Continuous Improvement
Advanced SAFe knowledge and facilitation skills

What this role is all about:

Were looking for an experienced and inspiring Release Train Engineer (RTE) to join our Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who combines deep expertise in scaled agile practices with a passion for developing people improving delivery flow and enabling organisational change.

In this role youll lead our Product Delivery Stream (PDS) -Vitalitys version of an Agile Release Train - facilitating scaled agile events coaching leaders and teams in SAFe ways of working and optimising the endtoend flow of value. Youll also be a key contributor to the LACE transformation roadmap ensuring improvements and best practices are embedded effectively across your PDS.

Key Actions:

Facilitate PI Planning:organises and leads PI Planning events ensuring teams and stakeholders are prepared for the event and align on objectives priorities and dependencies for the upcoming planning interval.
Support PI execution:monitor progress against PI objectives support the resolution of PDS level impediments input on risk management support stakeholder engagement and facilitate scaled agile events such as PDS Syncs and Systems Demos that help keep delivery on track.
Coach the PDS:lead and mentor Scrum Masters while coaching leadership and teams fostering collaboration and growth across the PDS.
Optimise PDS flow:analyse and improve the flow of value across the PDS applying flow accelerators to remove bottlenecks limit work in progress and streamlining processes to maximise value delivery.
Improve relentlessly:drive a culture of ongoing learning and improvement facilitating I&As encouraging teams to experiment and adopt better ways of working.
Support the transformation: contribute to the agile transformation roadmap cascading changes and best practices to the PDS and providing feedback loops to improve the implementation.

What do you need to thrive

SAFe RTE qualification
3 years of experience as a RTE working in a software delivery environment
Experience in Scrum and scaled agile frameworks
Proven experience in people management
IT related under-graduate degree

So whats in it for you

Bonus Schemes A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12% We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer please visit our careers page.Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successfulin your application and join us at Vitality this is our promise to you we will:

Help you to be the healthiest youve ever been.
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
Give you flexibility on how where and when you work.
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
Give you the space to try fail and learn.
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
Be there for you when you need us.
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About You

About Us

Were incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture weve created recently being named one of Glassdoors Best Places to Work 2026 and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards.

Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand here to make the world a healthier happier place.

Weve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives they benefit our business benefits and society benefits. Were successful because we attract develop and retain the best people and because we care.

Plus you get to join our 1.7 million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.

Ready to find out if were the right fit for you We cant wait.

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Diversity & Inclusion

At Vitality were committed to diversity and inclusion because its good for our employees for our business and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds experiences and perspectives.

Vitalitys approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible.

Required Experience:

Team Lean Agile Centre of ExcellenceWorking Pattern - Hybrid 2days per week in any of the UK Vitality Offices (Bournemouth London or Stockport).Full time hours per week.Please note we have 3 open positions; 1 x permanent 1 x Fixed Term Contract (12 months) and 1 x internal secondment (12 months).We...