Deadline Date:
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Requirement:
Interoperability Solution Development / Architecture Support Service
Location:
The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site:
No
Time On-Site:
30% (See 8.3 Travel)
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE: 8 sprints, NTE € 5,400 / sprint, total NTE € 43,200
2026 – 2027 – 2028 - Options
Period of Performance:
BASE period: 08 September 2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
Please do
NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Introduction:
- The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for solution architect with experience in C2 System Engineering, Data Lake, Data Modelling and Cloud Activities.
- Solution Architect shall provide the technical C2 expert subject matter expertise solutions and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
- Changes to service, process, organisation, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision.
The main objective of this statement of work is the support the development of new and maintenance of existing software modules, provide the service delivery and solution engineering solutions to NATO Data Lake/NCDF ecosystem of capabilities of Lake Diver (search) and Integration Core (Data Lake/NCDF Node).
Qualifications:
For the tasks under this task order, we require the contractor to have the following qualifications:
- Primary knowledge in and well versed in C# with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Well knowledgeable in .NET Core and NET 8+
- Well Knowledgeable in JavaScript, Angular and HTML5 with at least 4 years of recent experience.
- Strong knowledge of system design architecture, overall system to system integration in the ecosystem of high efficiency information exchange
- Knowledge of at least 3 years of experience with system integration, data modelling data translations, transformations and modelling processes
- Comfortable in presenting solutions to working groups
- The contractor has strong knowledge and practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40 months) with industry equivalent of Data Bricks, Apache Kafka, Sparks, RabbitMQ and/or similar
- The contractor has strong knowledge and practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40 months) with Software and/or System Architecting in modern industry standards such as UML
- The contractor has strong knowledge and practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40 months) with modern software development methodologies (e.g. Software development life cycles, Agile methodologies), a certification in the field of agile software development and/or SCRUM is a plus.
- It is desirable that the contractor is well experienced with JSON, XML, XSD, will have to learn XQUERY and XPATH and/or XSLT rapidly,
- Very Desirable, but not mandatory knowledge in XSLT
- The contractor has a flexible, cooperative and customer focussed attitude; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way;
- The contractor must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.
- Language Proficiency: Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required. NOTE: Most of the work of the NCI Agency is conducted in the English language