Principal Architect, Ballistic Missile Defense

Who we are:

For 75 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia. 

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff. 

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join the Chief Technology Office (CTO), which is the key enabler of NATO’s digital transformation. This office is a cornerstone for the NCI Agency’s work to advance NATO’s information communications technologies (ICT) that are critical to maintain NATO’s technological edge. With NCI Agency's scientists, architects and engineers, CTO is the hub for architecting and designing NATO’s ICT technical landscape while considering innovation, standardization, and coherence across the Alliance.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Principal Architect (BMD) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

•    Provide advice on Ballistic Missile Defense technologies, architectures, technology roadmaps.
•    Provide architectural direction and guidance in support of technical coherence at the BMD program level and its related projects.
•    Approve designs and C4ISR solutions to ensure coherence with established criteria, operational, functional and non-functional requirements as well as approved NATO policies and directives.
•    Monitor and evaluate business data and application migration to ensure consistent, uninterrupted service provisioning to the customers.
•    Perform gap analysis and provide support to continuous C4ISR services improvements on request of the responsible NCIA business areas (Service Owners).

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

•    A Master’s degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience, or a Bachelor’s degree with 8 years post related experience.
•    Extensive experience leading the creation and review of IT services, systems, architectures and roadmaps for large organizations.
•    Extensive experience leading and monitoring the development of domain / segment, and solution architectures, ensuring consistency with specified requirements.
•    Extensive experience leading the implementation of ICT specific projects for alignment with relevant architectures and roadmaps.
•    Understanding of operational tasks in the NATO C2 structure at strategic, operational and tactical levels.
•    Knowledge of NATO Air and Missile Defense entities, capabilities, workflows and interfaces.
•    Experience with Cloud Architecting including IaaS, PaaS, Cyber Security, Cloud Service Management.
•    Knowledge in ITIL, COBIT, CISSP, or equivalent.
•    Fluency in English, both written and spoken

What we offer:

•    Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
•    3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
•    Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
•    Excellent private health insurance scheme;
•    Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
•    NATO Pension Scheme;
•    Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.  

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.  

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site. 

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