Solution Architect (Deployable and Mobile CIS, NAFv4) for NATO with security clearance

A NATO organisation in Braine-lAlleud is looking for a principal solution engineerto lead the architecture of complex communications solutions the deployable dispersible andhighly mobile kind where power wireless and satellite all have to work together in the is a senior post: you would set the standards other projects build to.

• Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions and keeping them consistentwith agreed requirements.
• Setting the policies principles and practices for selecting solution architecturecomponents.
• Managing trade-offs between functional service quality and systems management requirementsand communicating the decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinating the target architecture across several projects at once keeping the designstable and standards-compliant.
• Driving scoping requirements definition and prioritisation on large initiatives establishing baselines negotiating competing priorities and managing changes properly.
• Setting systems development policy and making security and privacy integral to it andmanaging the resources technical financial and quality targets across all stages.
• Producing or approving network architectures topologies and configuration databases andspecifying design parameters for connectivity capacity speed interfacing security andaccess.
• Assessing network risk and specifying recovery routines and contingency procedures withdesign views for each stakeholder group.

• A Masters degree in a related discipline with five years of relevant experience or aBachelors with eight.
• Proven experience leading teams of technical staff.
• Current and future deployable dispersible and highly mobile CIS technologies.
• Design and systems integration experience covering AC power distribution emergencygeneration and fuel storage and UPS.
• A good grasp of wireless technologies including satellite communications.
• Architecture modelling languages UML SysML or ArchiMate preferablyinside an architecture framework (NAFv4 TOGAF DODAF Zachman) and model-based systemsengineering.
• Quality assurance practice and solid experience developing implementing fielding testingand maintaining modern communications equipment.
• ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation (or an equivalent project managementcertification such as PMP).

• NATO Architecture Framework version 4 and Federated Mission Networking applied in servicedesign.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent and ArchiMate or TOGAF certification.
• An international environment with both military and civilian colleagues.

• Braine-lAlleud Belgium full time on site normal office environment withtemporary duty to other NATO sites in Belgium one to two times a month.
• 28 September to 30 Decemberhours in total.
• Graded at the equivalent of NATO G20.
• You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country with the right towork in Belgium.

If you have taken deployable communications from a requirement to something that actually worksin the field this is a role with real scope.