Engineering Data Integrity Lead

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Job Title

Engineering Data Integrity Lead

Grade

P3

Function

Engineering

Location

Gloucester

Security

Clearance Required

Baseline BPSS and SC

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National security vetting: clearance levels -

Duration

Permanent

Hours

37hrs per week

Raytheon UK

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.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment abundant opportunities for professional development and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together we are not just advancing technology; were building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

About the role:

The Engineering Data Manager is responsible for the governance integrity and lifecycle management of engineering data across product development and inservice support activities. This role ensures that product design changes technical changes and configuration data are accurately controlled authorised and maintained within approved systems in accordance with internal procedures customer requirements and regulatory standards.

The position plays a critical role in safeguarding product and system data integrity during the exploitation of engineering data establishing trusted data foundations that enable advanced analytics and the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence technologies including Generative AI and Large Language Models.

Skills and Experience

• HNC/HND or Degree in Engineering Engineering Management or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience in engineering data management configuration control or design change management.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management (PLM) concepts.
• Experience managing design and technical change in complex engineering environments.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain high levels of data integrity accuracy and traceability.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in regulated industries (e.g. aerospace defence automotive rail energy).

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience with PLM/PDM systems such as Windchill Teamcenter or Enovia.
• Knowledge of configuration management standards (e.g. ISO 10007 EIA649).
• Familiarity with quality and regulatory frameworks (e.g. AS9100 ISO 9001).
• Experience supporting audits certifications or customer data deliverables.
• Understanding of digital thread / digital twin concepts.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Analytical and methodical problemsolver.
• Confident in challenging noncompliance and driving best practice.
• Comfortable working across multiple projects and prioritising effectively.
• Committed to continuous improvement and data excellence.

Responsibilities

Engineering Data & Integrity

• Own and maintain the integrity of engineering data infrastructure defining strategy and leading the technical execution of change to ensure reliable data pipelines for analytics and business needs.
• Enable rapid improvements in Master Data quality to support effective data exploitation and the adoption of new and evolving systems.
• Ensure raw engineering data is accurately transformed into usable data assets through effective structuring version control and full traceability of product definitions including drawings models specifications and Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Support the exploitation of engineering data by ensuring data integrity (design pipelines that handle dirty data and flag discrepancies) underpins current and future business needs.
• Enable and support organisational AI initiatives by providing trusted data foundations and deploying advanced technologies and tools including Generative AI and Large Language Models to end users.
• Establish and enforce data standards naming conventions and classification rules across engineering datasets.

Product Design Change Management Integrity

• Strategy and Architecture design implement and manage the end-to-end data platforms which control product design change ensuring all changes are correctly assessed approved implemented and recorded.
• Pipeline and Infrastructure drive the creation of scalable and efficient pipelines and processing systems for data ingestion transformation and access - including engineering change requests (ECRs) engineering change proposals (ECPs) and change implementation activities.
• Ensure design changes maintain data compliance with safety security (RBAC) secure data transfer protocols (sensitive data).

Data Governance and Quality through Technical Change Control

• Establish and enforce data management security and compliance policies ensuring high data quality and integrity by administering formal technical change control processes ensuring that technical impacts dependencies and risks are fully evaluated.
• Maintain accurate change histories and configuration baselines throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support configuration audits and design reviews by providing authoritative data sets.

Data Integrity & Assurance

• Ensure engineering data platforms remains accurate complete secure fit for purpose and align with regulatory frameworks e.g. SOC2 ISO 27001 HIPAA.
• Perform regular data quality assessments and audits to identify discrepancies or integrity risks.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce data errors rework and inefficiencies.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the primary interface between data sciences analytics engineering manufacturing quality supply chain and programme teams on data-related matters.
• Provide expert advice on data governance emerging techniques and technologies drive adoption of new tools configuration status accounting and promote DevOps.
• Support internal and external stakeholders including customers and regulatory authorities.

Tools Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Manage and optimise the use of tools (e.g. Apache Spark AWS Glue Databricks or equivalent).
• Support system enhancements of data processing and transformation migrations and process improvements.
• Contribute to the development of engineering data management policies procedures and training materials that support Data Lakehouses.

Benefits and Work Culture

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday statutory public holidays plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 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 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!
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output not time spent at desk focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington Virginia USA but with over 180000 employees globally across every continent RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35000 jobs across 13 UK sites RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over 2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4000 suppliers across England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. Were investing in all corners of the country supporting 29040 jobs in England 3040 in Northern Ireland 1900 in Scotland and 1600 in Wales.

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