Senior Enterprise Architect

NATO•Norfolk, NY

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 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. The incumbent is a Staff Officer in the CR branch providing support and expertise across all requirement development project teams, ensuring internal and cross capability alignment. The incumbent 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.

Requirements

University Degree in business administration, engineering, economics, public administration, operations research, business process engineering 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.
Possess Expert-level certification in Enterprise Architecture, for example, TOGAF
6 years within the last ten of experience in development and maintenance of enterprise and systems architecture, and in requirements specification/management processes.
Detailed knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and modelling frameworks such as NAF, DoDAF.
Demonstrable recent experience (i.e. in the last 10 years) of applying ArchiMate notation for architecture modelling.
Demonstrable experience in coordinating architectural work across multiple teams and projects.
Demonstrable experience in presenting architectural information to non-technical audience and leadership.
Demonstrable experience in developing and applying architectural quality standards, modeling guides and templates.
Experience in business process modelling, data modelling and analysis, and viewpoint design.
Experience in using common enterprise architecture and requirements management tools such as System Architect, DOORS, Troux, Enterprise Architect, Aris,
Experience in Planning, Design, Systems Engineering, Integration and Implementation of NATO (or national) Command and Control, Communication and Information Systems.
Experience in handling complex problems.
Excellent analytical, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
Trained in requirements capture/collection, definition, decomposition
English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Nice To Haves

Experience in the field of requirements engineering to include requirements management and requirements elicitation.
Knowledge of requirements management tools.
Experience in briefing senior leaders/decision makers at the FOGO/governance level in a National or Multinational environment.
Knowledge of Capability Development and Management processes.
Knowledge of Configuration Management methods and practices.
Program and Project Management experience within a complex and dynamic program environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain an overarching strategic Enterprise Architecture overview linking existing programme capability architectures.
Perform modelling, architecture and design activities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.
Support capability architects to ensure consistency of design and adherence to appropriate architectural standards and to the Enterprise Architecture.
Develop, configure and maintain templates, guides, HOWTO documents and reports for Enterprise Architecture and Capability Architectures. Follow ArchiMate and NATO Architectural Framework 4 (NAF4) guidelines and best practices.
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
Support the creation and maintenance of ACT level directives, rules and regulations guiding architecture development, baselining, verification and validation, and use
Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of requirements at all levels.
Establish and maintain a network of Subject Matter Experts (SME) to foster vertical and horizontal alignment and traceability.
Supports the capability requirement engineering process for all capabilities by ensuring that appropriate views complement and clarify the requirements sets and the contextual information.
Monitor overlaps, dependencies and consistency across capabilities, to foster coherence and optimisation across the Enterprise.
Performs requirement validation and support technical reviews as requested.
Support the change and configuration management processes to ensure the quality of capability requirements and architectural artefacts throughout the life cycle.
Establish and maintain traceability within and between requirements sets, and with relevant architectural models.
Maintain requirement artefacts in the repository ensuring versioning and configuration control.
Support to the activities of all Capability Requirements Management Team in the area of requirements modelling and capability design.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to programmes and projects (e.g. to programme directors and requirements managers).
Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.
Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.
Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
Proposes changes to established process as part of the branch continuous improvement process.
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
Contribute and participate in the development of policies, directives and process refinement related to architecture and requirements.
Analyse and prepare Change Requests; perform impact assessments, identify implied changes and implement approved changes in accordance with the established change process.