Configuration and Data Management Practitioner in Wokingham

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Winnersh, Wokingham

Position Role Type: Hybrid

Permanent Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

About us:

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development. Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces.

Role & Responsibilities:

The Courseware and Media Capability team is seeking a Configuration and Data Practitioner as part of a programme engineering team to undertake activities within a major training project. The Configuration and Data Practitioner will be responsible for the implementation and management of all processes around the control of information and data. A wide experience of configuration management is required, as this role will involve complex data arrangements both within Raytheon UK and its sub-contractors. The Configuration and Data Practitioner will work with the project’s configuration and data management team, currently. The successful candidate will also be called upon to provide support to the wider Raytheon UK business when required. Reporting to the Head of Training and the Configuration Data Lead, the role will require occasional travel to interact with key stakeholders across the programme. The Configuration and Data Practitioner will support the Systems Engineering Lead as required.

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership of all Configuration Management processes on the project to ensure CM compliance. This includes the configuration planning, identification, control, status accounting and auditing for development and operational systems.
• 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 administer release management in the context of structured and unstructured data, including establish 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.
• Lead a team of configuration and data managers, 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.

Required experience:

• Frequent use and application of Configuration and Knowledge Management principles, theories and concepts on large or complex projects.
• Detailed working knowledge of Def Stan 05-57 or equivalent.
• A working knowledge of CMMI and ISO 9000 requirements.
• Familiarity with tailored process creation and introduction using current CM methodology, establishing guidelines and rules for all functions/levels and the introduction of suitable toolsets to enable successful configuration management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to work out of hours on occasion.
• Possessed of, or capable of obtaining, SC.

Desirable experience:

• Experience in complex solutions for large government organisations or private corporations using a diverse engineering and technology team.
• Experience of Configuration Management tool migration projects.
• Experience of leading and delivering structured improvement projects.
• Proficient in the evaluation of programme documents for impact to CM processes.