Spatial Data Subject Matter Expert

Role Overview

Raytheon UK is searching for a Spatial Data Subject Matter Expert to join the OMNIA® Training team. In this role you will support the British Army’s collective training initiatives, reporting to the Data Lead and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams in a matrix organisation. The position is based in Warminster, Wiltshire and is hybrid.

• Lead the governance, management, and lifecycle control of spatial data supporting modelling and simulation (M&S) capabilities within ACTS.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Spatial Data Management Plan (SDMP), ensuring compliance with MOD geospatial policies and standards.
• Manage the ingestion, cataloguing, validation, and discoverability of geospatial data within the ACTS Content Catalogue (ACC).
• Ensure all spatial data is configuration managed with appropriate metadata, provenance, revision control, and traceability.
• Establish and maintain processes for spatial data acquisition, validation, integration, and lifecycle management in collaboration with Specialist Geospatial Centres (SGCs).
• Ensure all GEOINT and spatial datasets comply with relevant MOD and UK geospatial standards (e.g., JSP
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  00‑102, MGMP2, GEMINI2).
• Liaise with the MOD Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), including the SDI Gatekeeper, Spatial Data Assurance Group (SDAG), and Defence Geospatial Management Board (DGMB).
• Audit and validate spatial data holdings to ensure accuracy, currency, and operational relevance for training and simulation systems.
• Identify and manage Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) dependencies across systems and maintain the PNT Dependency Register.
• Provide spatial data expertise to design reviews, change control boards, and system integration activities.
• Establish effective working relationships with SGCs, MOD SDI stakeholders, and acquisition organisations to ensure efficient spatial data management.

• Engineering background, educated to degree level or with equivalent related experience.
• Demonstrable experience managing spatial data or geospatial intelligence within complex technical or operational environments.
• Strong understanding of spatial data lifecycle management including acquisition, cataloguing, validation, metadata management, and governance.
• Experience implementing geospatial metadata standards and maintaining spatial data catalogues or repositories.
• Knowledge of MOD or UK geospatial data standards and frameworks (e.g., JSP
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  00‑102, MGMP2, GEMINI2).
• Experience working within spatial data infrastructure environments or geospatial governance frameworks.
• Understanding of spatial data provenance, traceability, and configuration management principles.
• Experience implementing spatial data quality assurance, audit, and compliance processes.
• Knowledge of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) dependencies within geospatial or simulation systems.
• Experience using geospatial information systems (e.g., ArcGIS or equivalent GIS platforms).
• Understanding of geospatial data formats, coordinate reference systems, and spatial data processing techniques.
• Experience integrating spatial data into modelling, simulation, or analytical environments.
• Ability to develop policies, procedures, and documentation related to spatial data governance and management.

Formal offers to successful candidates will be conditional upon award.

• Chance to join a groundbreaking mission – shape the future and drive innovation within a collaborative matrix organisation.
• 37‑hour working week with early finish Fridays.
• 25 days holiday plus statutory public holidays, with the 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).
• 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 and shared parental leave.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. 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.