Senior Architect (Cyberspace)

NATO

7h

About The Position

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 Capabilities Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with the management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure. This entails synchronizing horizontally across capabilities to achieve coherent efforts and outcomes.
The Cyberspace Branch provides scientific, technical and operational expertise for the development and continuous improvement of modern and agile Cyberspace capabilities including Cyber Defence and enabling cryptographic infrastructure. The Branch provides services and products through a competency-aligned structure to support appropriate product, programme coordination across DOTMLPFI lines of development throughout the lifecycle. The Branch supports cyber concepts development, capability requirements elicitation, architectures (including cryptographic reference and target architectures) and federated interoperability. This includes leveraging applied science, technology, operations research and horizon scanning. The Branch leads the development of Capability Programme Plans (CPPs) and ensures delivery of programme outcomes by assessing throughout the lifecycle the CSSPR against agreed tolerances. The Branch leads the acceptance testing and documentation of assigned capabilities. The Branch analyses emerging technologies with stakeholders. It ensures military and technical coherence and persistent interoperability.
Within the Cyber Branch the incumbent's main responsibility is to collate, generate, manage, update and improve capability architectures.

Requirements

• University Degree in information technology, information systems engineering, business administration, quality engineering, information security, computer science or related discipline and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 2 years function related experience.
• Certified as one of the following: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
• Certified in TOGAF (or NAF), or alternatively 4 years of experience in applying any of the two methodologies.
• Six years' hands-on experience in large, complex capability engineering, including development, implementation and commissioning. In general, managing resources to develop capabilities will not be considered as valid experience.
• Six years' experience as lead/key contributor in the development of capability or technical level architecture products for complex systems environments, applying a sound framework such as NAF, DoDAF or TOGAF. In general, managing resources to develop architectures will not be considered as valid experience.
• Four years' experience working for NATO or similar military structure (i.e. International Organization or national MoD).
• English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, network security, cyber-security or other related field. The education requirement can be substituted with a Bachelor Degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field.
• ITIL certification
• General knowledge of the organization and structure of NATO.
• Demonstrable understanding of cyberspace operations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a permanent critical analysis and review of existing and under-development cyberspace architectural products in tandem with related technical context such as requirements, system descriptions, concepts, etc. in order to gain a big picture perspective of Cyberspace capabilities across multiple projects.
• Liaise with ACT Technical Director (TD), Programme Directors (PDs) and Subject Matter experts (SMEs) in ACT, NCIA and other organizations to understand and describe NATO Cyberspace environment and analyse upcoming cyberspace requirements to develop new architectural products or augment existing ones.
• Develop NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) views, mainly using NAFv4 methodology.
• Coordinate and align the capability architectures with NATO HQ Office of CIO enterprise architectural views and products.
• Support the TD and the PDs in adopting and further customize architecture products in support of development of other products, including but not limited to capability breakdowns, capability descriptions and capability project plans.
• Engage with, and coordinate, relevant Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, nations, industry, and academia) for input to architectural development process.
• Prepare relevant briefing materials, as required, and deliver presentations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees