Solution Engineer

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

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Who we are supporting

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

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Role Background

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for solution architect with experience in C2 System Engineering, Data Lake, Data Modelling and Cloud Activities. Service Delivery Engineer will provide the technical C2 expert subject matter expertise solutions and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. Changes to service, process, organisation, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Act in the position of the senior technical expert to guide the development team to make sure that capabilities are being developed useful to NATO Enterprise.
• Engage with user communities to capture the operational requirements.
• Participate in yearly exercises such as Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX) as one of the technical leads in the month of June taking place in Poland deploying Lake Diver and Data Lake capability
  • Engage with nations to develop test plan scenario, architecture and support the execution of the exercise as the key SME.
• Visit operational entities across NATO Enterprise to conduct interviews with operators.
• Understand user requirements and translate the requirements into solutions.
• Produce detailed component specifications and transform it into detailed designs for implementation.
• The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
  • If needed, act as part the development team by developing software code.
  • Ensure appropriate standards (including industrial, international and NATO) are adhered.
  • Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including supporting change management processes).
• Assist in the preparation of technical plans and works to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Well versed in JavaScript and/or C# with at least 4 years of experience
• Strong knowledge of systems integration in the ecosystem of high efficiency information exchange
• Knowledge of 2 years developing solutions with Elastic Search or equivalent
• The contractor has strong knowledge and practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40 months) with:
  • industry equivalent of Data Bricks, Apache Kafka, Sparks, RabbitMQ and/or similar Software and/or System Architecting in modern industry standards such as UML Knowledge of modern software development methodologies (e.g. Software development life cycles, Agile methodologies), a certification in the field of agile software development and/or SCRUM is a plus.
• The contractor is familiar with including DNS, domains, PKI certificates, network designs;
• Comfortable in presenting solutions to working groups
• The contractor has a flexible, cooperative and customer focussed attitude; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way;
• The contractors must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• It is desirable that the contractor is well experienced with JSON, XML, XSD, will have to learn XQUERY and XPATH and/or XSLT rapidly,
  • Very Desirable, but not mandatory knowledge in XSLT

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands

Working Policy

• Hybrid (10% of time on-site)

Travel

• Business travel of up to 30% to various sites

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.