Are you a specialist in the field of Enterprise Architecture?  If so, this position offers you a unique opportunity to support the NATO Alliance at its Capability Development Command.

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO’s posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

The Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions—Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements.

The Requirements Division executes requirements management for NATO capabilities. It develops capability requirements, provides traceability and quality assurance of capability requirements, performs gap analysis and supports interoperability and implementation options across the DOTMLPFI spectrum.

The Capabilities Requirements Branch, with cross-functional Requirements Management Teams, develops NATO capability requirements and recommend courses of action to resolve issues associated through lifecycle management. The Branch, in coordination with other branches in the Capability Division, performs requirements engineering, modelling, enterprise architecture and capability design activities to ensure shared understanding, consistency within and between capabilities, and completeness of the requirements sets. The Branch coordinates Divisional efforts in capability requirements development, traceability, and quality assurance support; gap analysis; and interoperability standards.

A civilian post in the Requirements Division with specific expertise in enterprise architecture, business analysis, and systems engineering. He/she is a Staff Officer in the CR branch providing support and expertise across all requirement development project teams, ensuring internal and cross capability alignment. He/she also liaisons with communities of interest in ACT and NATO to maintain Enterprise level awareness, and with Industry, and Academia to retain cutting edge knowledge in the field of his/her expertise.

Reports to: – Section Head (Requirements Engineer)/Principal Requirements Engineer/Deputy Branch Head.   

Principal Duties: His/her duties are:

The incumbent’s duties are:

a.         Perform modelling, architecture and design activities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.

b.         Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition.

c.         Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of requirements at all levels.

d.         Establish and maintain a network of Subject Matter Experts (SME) to foster vertical and horizontal alignment and traceability.

e.         Support the capability requirement engineering process for all capabilities by ensuring that appropriate views complement and clarify the requirements sets and the contextual information.

f.          Monitor overlaps, dependencies and consistency across capabilities, to foster coherence and optimisation across the Enterprise.

g.         Perform requirement validation and support technical reviews as requested.

h.         Support the change and configuration management processes to ensure the quality of capability requirements and architectural artefacts throughout the life cycle.

i.          Establish and maintain traceability within and between requirements sets, and with relevant architectural models.

j.          Maintain requirement artefacts in the repository ensuring versioning and configuration control.

k.         Support to the activities of all Capability Requirements Management Team in the area of requirements modelling and capability design.

l.          Maintain the architectural artefacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.

m.        Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.

n.         Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.

o.         Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.

p.         Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.

q.         Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.

r.          Support the development of Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability within ACT by following high-level political guidance set by NATO senior governance committees, including NAC and MC endorsed strategies, C3 Board endorsed NATO EA Policies, and C3CAM agreed EA directives.

s.         Support the creation and maintenance of ACT level directives, rules and regulations guiding architecture development, baselining, verification and validation, and use.

t.          Propose changes to established process as part of the branch continuous improvement process.

u.         Liaise with communities of interest in ACT and NATO to maintain Enterprise level awareness, and with Industry, and Academia to retain cutting edge knowledge in the field of his/her expertise.

v.         Support the change and configuration management processes to ensure the integrity of capability requirements throughout the life cycle.

w.        Contribute and participate in the development of policies, directives and process refinement related to architecture and requirements.

x.         Analyse and prepare Change Requests; perform impact assessments, identify implied changes and implement approved changes in accordance with the established change process.

Essential Qualifications

a.         University Degree in business administration, engineering, economics, public administration, operations research, business process engineering or related discipline  and 2 years function related experience.

b.         Seven years of recent experience in development and maintenance of enterprise and systems architecture.

c.         Five years of recent experience in the definition of future capabilities (complex socio-technical systems defined across the DOTMLPFI lines of development).

d.         Three years recent experience in identifying opportunities and synergies as well as overlaps, dependencies and risks in the high level architecture across a portfolio of capabilities.

e.         Detailed knowledge and practical experience using enterprise architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and modelling frameworks such as NAF, DoDAF, ArchiMate or UAF.

f.          Experience in business process modelling, data modelling and analysis, and viewpoint design.

g.         Experience in using common enterprise architecture and requirements management tools such as System Architect, DOORS, Troux, Enterprise Architect or Iris.

h.         Experience in Planning, Design, Systems Engineering, Integration and Implementation of NATO (or national) Command and Control, Communication and Information Systems.

i.          Experience in the identification of gaps between current and envisioned capabilities.

j.          Experience in large scale procurement and acquisition programmes.

k.         Experience in translating operational needs into clear and unambiguous language, in support of acquisition processes.

l.          Experience in leading project teams.

m.        Experience in the organisation and conduction of workshops, seminars, and conferences.

n.         Experience in handling complex problems.

o.         Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

p.         Excellent oral and written communication skills.

q.         Experience in negotiation and conflict resolution.

Language

English – SLP 3333 – (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Desirable Qualifications

a. Professional Experience

1.         Possess Expert-level certification in Enterprise Architecture, for example, TOGAF.

2.         Certification in requirement engineering, for example, International Requirement Engineering Board (IREB).

3.         Experience in requirement engineering.

4.         Experience in change and configuration management processes.

5.         Experience in briefing senior leaders/decision makers at the FOGO/board/governance level in a National or Multinational environment.

6.         Knowledge of requirements management tools (e.g. Doors, Visure, RequisitePro).

7.         Knowledge of best practices in Program and Project Management.

8.         Knowledge of best practice in government/military capability development procedures and organization.

9.         Knowledge of best practice government/military capability development, implementation and in-service support processes.

10.      Knowledge of best practice government/military funding and acquisition processes.

b. Education/Training

1.         ACT Programme, portfolio and program management (P3) Course.

2.         ACT Capability Requirements and Development Course.

3.         DOORS Requirements Management tool.

Attributes/Competencies

•           Personal Attributes:

a.         Analytic thinking: He/she has the ability to capture complex problems, breakdown thoughts and ideas into their individual elements, recognise connections between these elements, and provide verifiable description of implications.

b.         Empathy: He/she must have the ability to put oneself in another person and recognise his/her wishes and concerns.

c.         Communication skills: He/she must have the ability to express himself/herself in the customer/user’s language in an international organization.

d.         Conflict resolution: He/she has the ability to mediate among stakeholders’ points of view to detect and resolve conflicts.

e.         Ability to moderate: He/she will negotiate between stakeholders, constructing a common learning process within the group, ensuring that decision are taken and documented.

• Managerial Responsibilities: He/she directs and supervises multi-functional teams, cross-functional staff, assigned contractors and costumer-funded personnel assigned to the branch or to programmes assigned to the branch.

• Professional Contacts: He/she must be able to liaise effectively both within and outside the HQ with military and civilian personnel up to the rank/position equivalent to OF-8 level. Outside contacts include senior officials in NATO HQ, NATO agencies and research centres, and national government agencies and industry.

• Contribution To Objectives: There are financial implications and also significant cost savings for NATO and nations if solutions are cost-effective and efficient and if the implementation of these solutions are successful.

Security Clearance

The successful applicant will be required to apply for and receive a NATO Secret Security Clearance prior to final confirmation of contract and commencement of employment.

Work Environment

He/she will be required to work in a normal office environment.

Contract

Serving NATO International Civilian staff will be offered a contract in accordance with the NATO Civilian Personnel Regulations.  Newly recruited staff will be offered a three year definite duration contract.

Notes for Candidates

The HQ SACT web site gives details on  the eligibility criteria and application processes to be adopted by all candidates.

The candidature of NATO redundant staff at grade A-2/NG 15 will be considered with priority.

Applicants who are not successful in this competition may be offered an appointment to another post of a similar nature, albeit at the same or a lower grade, provided they meet the necessary requirements.

This vacancy will close on 23 May 2023 @ 17:59hrs (Eastern)/11:59hrs (CET).

Notes for NATO Civilian Human Resources Managers

If you have qualified redundant staff at grade A-2/NG 15, please advise the HQ SACT Civilian HR Manager no later than the closing date.

For any queries, please contact the HQ SACT Recruitment Team at [email protected]