Release Train Engineer – Guidewire

Release Train Engineer – Guidewire

• Play a key leadership role in the delivery across our Guidewire platform

• Influence and connect teams, bringing stakeholders together to solve orchestration challenges and accelerate delivery.

• Champion agile excellence, improving collaboration and embedding effective ways of working

About the role

We are recruiting for a dynamic individual to join our IT Guidewire team as a Release Train Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our Guidewire delivery engine, driving delivery alignment, transparency, readiness and seamless execution from planning through to implementation.

As Release Train Engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating, facilitating and driving delivery across the Release Train, aligning teams, priorities, dependencies and stakeholders to support the successful execution of the Guidewire roadmaps. Working closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, Project Managers, business stakeholders and the Guidewire Governance team, you will ensure delivery remains aligned to business objectives, required release timescales and technical standards, driving successful outcomes at scale.

This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact as part of NFU Mutual's transition to Guidewire Cloud. You'll help shape how we deliver coordinated change across the platform, improve collaboration across teams, remove delivery obstacles and embed agile best practices that support our transition and operation on Guidewire Cloud.

You'll build strong relationships across Group IT and the wider business, working with both internal teams and third party partners to support effective delivery.

About you

You are an experienced and collaborative delivery leader who thrives in a fast paced environment and brings people together to achieve shared goals. A confident facilitator, excellent communicator, detailed planner and natural problem solver; you are able to drive seamless delivery across complex change initiatives.

You demonstrate resilience when navigating challenges and can balance competing priorities while maintaining a focus on outcomes. You are passionate about fostering a collaborative cross-team delivery culture to deliver high quality solutions at scale, whilst being able to navigate a complex delivery landscape with precision. With strong stakeholder management skills, you build trusted relationships, effectively managing dependencies, resolving obstacles and creating and maintaining delivery momentum to ensure the successful delivery of change initiatives.

Essential skills include:

• Deep understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and ideally SAFe.
• Proven experience coordinating multiple agile teams, aligning delivery plans, managing dependencies and facilitating delivery across complex programmes.
• Strong understanding of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle
• Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven exceptional ability to manage risks, dependencies, impediments and predictable delivery outcomes across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Experience working with the Guidewire product stack is beneficial but not essential

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

Level 5

• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Plus any additional annual leave accrued in line with our Service Loyalty Policy

Further Information

The recruiter for this vacancy is Sukh Chatha

The hiring manager is Liz Jones