Configuration Practitioner

Job Overview

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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).

• Familiarity with defence configuration management standards and policies (e.g., Def Stan
  05‑57, JSP
  945, 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,…