Configuration Practitioner

Raytheon UK is searching for a Configuration Practitioner to join our OMNIA® Training team in Warminster, Wiltshire. The role is hybrid, with the candidate based in Warminster and working in a matrix organization supporting the British Army’s collective training programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and maintenance of programme Configuration Management (CM) processes across the full engineering lifecycle.
• Maintain configuration control of programme artefacts including documentation, software, hardware, models, and data.
• Manage configuration baselines, ensuring that configuration items are accurately recorded and controlled.
• Maintain and administer the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and associated configuration registers.
• Ensure configuration items are uniquely identified, version controlled, and traceable throughout their lifecycle.
• Support the configuration change management process, including raising, tracking, and implementing change requests.
• Prepare and maintain configuration status accounting reports to support programme governance and decision‑making.
• Support configuration audits and reviews to verify compliance with programme configuration management plans and policies.
• Ensure configuration management activities align with programme standards, policies, and engineering governance processes.
• Work with engineering, project management, and supply chain teams to ensure accurate configuration information is maintained.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of the Configuration Management Plan (CMP) and related procedures.
• Maintain configuration records within programme tools and repositories, ensuring data integrity and accessibility.
• Support system integration, testing, and deployment activities by ensuring correct configuration baselines are applied.
• Provide configuration management guidance to project teams and ensure adherence to approved CM processes.
• Support in Release Management, working closely with the Release Practitioner.
• Assist in the preparation of configuration documentation required for programme reviews and audits.

Why You’ll Thrive Here

You’ll have a mission focus, enthusiasm, and drive to get things done. You’ll collaborate with defence training organisations and the British Army, learning lessons and sharing knowledge across the team. Bureaucracy will not hold you back – you’ll put the mission first.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting configuration management activities within engineering, IT, or technical programmes, including managing technical standards and policies.
• Strong understanding of configuration management principles: identification, control, status accounting, and audit.
• Experience working with engineering teams to maintain accurate configuration records, baselines, and documentation within configuration management tools or databases.
• Experience supporting change management processes and maintaining configuration traceability.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills for complex configuration data sets.
• Experience working within defence, government, or regulated engineering programmes in controlled environments with defined governance and compliance processes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience using configuration management tools or repositories such as CMDB platforms, SharePoint, or engineering lifecycle management tools.
• Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Holds or is eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC).

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with defence configuration management standards and policies (e.g., Def Stan05‑57, JSP945, CADMID or equivalent CM frameworks).
• Experience supporting configuration management for complex systems or system‑of‑systems environments.
• Familiarity with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environments and configuration control of system models.
• Experience supporting configuration activities across software, hardware, and data artefacts.
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle processes: design, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Understanding of Release Management, processes and governance.
• Membership of or working toward professional accreditation with a recognised engineering body.

Benefits

• 37‑hour working week with early finish Fridays.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days and up to 5 paid days volunteering.
• 10.5% company pension contribution with 6% employee contribution.
• Annual company bonus scheme (discretionary) based on 6 times salary.
• Life Assurance with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work.
• Enhanced sick pay; enhanced family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Equal Opportunities

All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.