Jobid=627194502076629520 (0.0984)
Deadline Date: Wednesday 22 July 2026
Requirement: Senior System Engineer
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 99 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above – and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV – will be deleted.
Duties & Role:
- Contributes to the development of domain architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Supports projects through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
- Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
- Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
- Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
- Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
- Provides input to the requirements baseline.
- Investigates, manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
- Plans and drives systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans.
- Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques.
- Ensures that stakeholders are aware of required resources and that they are made available.
- Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources.
- Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects.
- Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
- Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- 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.
- The service contractor will be required to have system engineering, domain, and user-oriented capabilities.
The following skills are considered particularly important:
- System-of-systems engineering and lifecycle management
- Requirements engineering and traceability, including use of structured tooling such as DOORS or equivalent
- Technical baseline and interface management
- Integration planning and verification strategy development
- Operational domain knowledge, particularly in AirC2, federated mission operations and NATO operational constructs
- Human factors, usability analysis and user journey assessment
Desirable Experience and Education:
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.
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