Release Train Engineer

About The Role Team – Lean Agile Centre of Excellence Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days 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: We’re 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, you’ll lead our Product Delivery Stream (PDS) - Vitality’s version of an Agile Release Train - facilitating scaled agile events, coaching leaders and teams in SAFe ways of working, and optimising the end-to-end flow of value. You’ll 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, what’s 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 successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve 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 The Company We’re incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor’s 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. We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Vitality’s 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.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.