Team – V1 Technology Engineering - Platform Engineering
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or London Office. Full time hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Highly experienced SAFe Leadership
- Proven Agile Coaching Capability
- Strong Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management
What this role is all about:
We’re looking for an inspiring Release Train Engineer who combines deep expertise in scaled agile practices with a passion for developing people and driving relentless improvement. In this role, you’ll lead Product Delivery Stream (PDS) scaled agile events, coach leaders and teams on SAFe agile ways of working and optimise the flow of value to customers. You’ll play a key role in enabling the LACE (Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence) transformation roadmap ensuring improvements are effectively cascaded to your PDS and teams.
Key Actions
- Facilitate PI Planning - Organise and lead PI Planning events, ensuring teams and stakeholders are aligned on objectives, priorities and dependencies for the upcoming planning interval
- Support PI Execution - Monitor progress against PI objectives, help resolve Product Delivery Stream impediments, support risk management and stakeholder engagement, and facilitate key scaled agile events including PDS Syncs and System Demos
- Coach the Product Delivery Stream - Lead and mentor Scrum Masters while coaching leaders and teams, fostering collaboration, capability development and agile maturity across the PDS
- Optimise Delivery Flow - Drive improvements in the flow of value across the PDS by removing bottlenecks, limiting work in progress and streamlining processes to maximise delivery outcomes
- Drive Continuous Improvement - Foster a culture of learning and improvement through Inspect and Adapt sessions, encouraging experimentation and the adoption of more effective ways of working
- Support Agile Transformation - Contribute to the agile transformation roadmap by embedding new practices, cascading changes across the PDS and providing feedback to support successful implementation and ongoing improvement
What do you need to thrive?
- SAFe RTE and Leading SAFe accreditation
- 2+ years' experience as a Release Train Engineer within a software delivery environment
- Experience working with Scrum and scaled agile frameworks (SAFe)
- Proven people leadership and coaching experience
- Experience facilitating PI Planning and other scaled agile events
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience driving continuous improvement and agile transformation initiatives
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, 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.