This paper describes a highly flexible component architecture, primarily designed for automotive control systems, that supports distributed dynamically-configurable context-aware behaviour. The architecture enforces a separation of design-time and run-time concerns, enabling almost all decisions concerning run-time composition and adaptation to be deferred beyond deployment. Dynamic context management contributes to flexibility. The architecture is extensible, and can embed potentially many different self-management decision technologies simultaneously. The mechanism that implements the run-time configuration has been designed to be very robust, automatically and silently handling problems arising from the evaluation of self-management logic and ensuring that in the worst case the dynamic aspects of the system collapse down to static behavior in totally predictable ways.