NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.

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.

About the job

Based in The Hague, Netherlands, you will join the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) as Senior Software Engineer within The Command and Control (C2) Centre. C2 is a Business Area, responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities (design, transition and operations) for Joint/Maritime/Land.

As Senior Software Engineer you will be working as part of the C2 Engineering group that provides advice and direct support to C2 capability delivery projects throughout concept development to implementation.

About you

We are looking for an innovative Senior Software Engineer to lead and guide technical teams, providing mentorship, code reviews, and technical direction to junior engineers.

You will hold either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree obtained from a nationally recognised/certified University in computer science, software engineering or a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience. Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.

For a full list of duties please review the job description.  Senior Software Engineer

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

Special Notice:

*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.

*All selected candidates are required to complete a Security Clearance, Medical Clearance and Pre-employment Screening process before joining the NCI Agency. This process will require time, so please keep in mind that you will not be able to start working with us right away.

*For information about the NATO Single Salary Scale (Grading, Allowances, etc.) please visit our website. Detailed data is available under the Salary and Benefits tab.

*Please note that all candidates who are not current NATO International Civilians (NICs) or part of a Coordinated Organization (OECD, ESA, CoE, ECMWF, EUMETSAT) will start at increment 1 of the post’s salary grade.

*The NCI Agency will not accept applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at the sole discretion of the NCI Agency