Architect for NATO with security clearance

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization?

This is a senior-level architecture role requiring extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture, system-of-systems design, and governance in complex federated environments. The position demands a professional capable of shaping architectures across business, infrastructure, and functional areas, ensuring alignment with relevant technical strategies and security policies.

• Supports development of architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Assists in ensuring that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood, and employed in architecture development.
• Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Applies relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.

The service contractor will be required to have strong experience in enterprise and solution architecture, system-of-systems design, and governance in complex federated environments. In particular, the following skills are considered required:

1. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including SysML and tools such as Cameo or Capella
2. Enterprise and solution architecture methods
3. NATO interoperability standards and architectural frameworks, including NAF, FMN, STANAGs, and TDL-related constraints
4. API and microservices design
5. Cloud-native and hybrid deployment architecture
6. Integration architecture and interface control

The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience. As an exception, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely, at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.

• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
• Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.

If you've read the description and feel this role is a great match, we'd love to hear from you! Click "Apply for this job" to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete, and we'll be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.