About The Role

Team – Lean Agile Centre of Excellence

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 scaled agile events within a Product Delivery Stream (PDS) - Vitality’s version of an Agile Release Train - coaching leaders and teams in SAFe ways of working, and optimising the end‑to‑end flow of value.

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
Retirement support - we will match your contributions up to 5% of your salary
Health & wellbeing - Discovery Health Medical Scheme
Financial protection- life assurance, income protection, and short- and long-term disability insurance

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, we 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 Us

Vitality South Africa plays a key role in the development and delivery of the shared‑value insurance model within the Discovery Group. The team leads key strategic initiatives in the South African market, strengthens alignment across the organisation, and ensures the successful implementation of Vitality’s health and wellness programmes. In addition, the team provides specialised expertise, cutting edge technology, behavioural science and health and wellness, drawing on both global innovation and local market insight. Roles within Vitality South Africa are dynamic and fast‑paced. As such, we are seeking individuals who are adaptable, solutions‑oriented, and capable of delivering high‑quality, sustainable value in a complex and evolving environment.

Employment Equity:

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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