Configuration & Release Manager in Swindon

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About us: At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world. OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.

The role: This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win. You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the OMNIA Chief Engineer. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership of all Configuration Management (CM) processes on the project to ensure CM compliance. This includes the configuration planning, identification, control, status accounting and auditing for development and in-service systems/services.
• Lead programme start-up and change activities including tailoring, estimating effort, establishing configuration processes, tool set selection, establishing data management repositories and regular governance and execution meetings.
• Define and lead application of release management, including establishing release management activities and toolsets, ensuring release requirements are defined and met, generating baselines, managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement and process simplification across the programme in conjunction with the profession lead.
• Work closely with development, quality assurance, ITEA and operations teams to ensure smooth transition from development to in-service environments.
• Identify potential risks that could impact release schedules and implement strategies to mitigate these risks.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of release processes, configuration items, and changes to ensure compliance with established standards and procedures.
• Lead a team of release engineers, ensuring work is delivered on time and to budget.
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.

Who we are looking for:

We’re after individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.