Deadline Date:
Thursday 21 August 2025
Requirement:
Microsoft Power BI Dashboard and Visualization Development
Location:
The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site:
No
Time On-Site:
60%
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE: 7 weeks, NTE € 10,430/ week, total NTE € 65,709
2026 - 2027 - 2028 - Options
Period of Performance:
BASE period: 22 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
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
Introduction:
- The NATO Information and Communication Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is involved in the maintenance and development of command and control capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of these capabilities.
- In the light of these activities, the C2 Business Area is looking for support related to data analysis and developing Power BI dashboards and visualizations.
- The main objective of this statement of work is to provide the technical expertise in data analysis and design and developing Power BI dashboards and visualisation solutions to enable data-driven decision-making within the area of force management and operations planning application services (TOPFAS).
- Delivery of the services under this statement of work requires skills of one Microsoft Power BI Data Analysis, Dashboard and Visualization expert.
The contractor's personnel will be work under the direction and guidance of a NCI Agency technical lead and product manager, and will provide the service using an agile and iterative approach using multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for an approximate duration of 2 weeks.
The services shall be executed mainly on-site at the NCI Agency; some sprints might require the visit to other NATO locations. The development work will be carried out accessing the Azure DevOps NATO Software Factory development environment.
The scope of the assignment will be covering the following activities:
- Functional and technical analysis of existing capabilities and data models, and assess how it can be utilized within Power BI;
- Perform data analysis on test and operational environment (NS);
- Analyse operational requirements, develop user stories, including acceptance criteria and test cases to evaluate the final functionality;
- Coordinate requirements and user stories with users;
- Design dashboard and visualisation solutions to enable data-driven decision-making;
- Coordinate the technical work with the team and systems required to integrate, including integration testing;
- Implement data modelling and transformation techniques to clean, map and transform the data
- Implement and test the solutions, traceable through the Azure DevOps NATO Software Factory development environment;
- Deploy and test the solution to the operational environment (NS);
- Support the user on the operational environment (NS), correct issues and provide stability improvements;
- Create and update documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer and future maintenance.
The contractor shall participate in workshops, events and conferences related to the supported services, as requested by the NCI Agency project team.
Coordination and Reporting:
The contractor's personnel shall report to the NCI Agency's designated technical lead and product manager.
The contractor shall participate in daily status update meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives and other meetings, in person or via electronic means using conference call capabilities, according to project manager's instructions. When using conference call capabilities, the camera feature should be used at all times.
For each sprint to be considered as complete and payable, the contractor:
- Must report the progress of his/her service and any impediments during the sprint daily meetings;
- Should report verbally the service completed during the sprint review;
- Should prepare a demo of the service completed and present it to the team during the sprint demo meeting.
This is a deliverables-based contract.
The contractor will be required to provide servises 60% (3 days/week) on site, NCI Agency The Hague, and up to 40% (2 days/week) off-site, working from home, following standard business hours:
- NCIA core business hours
- Monday to Thursday 0830 - 1700, and Friday 0830 - 1500 (CET)
- Contractor Furnished Services:
- Contractor shall furnish everything required to perform the contract.
The work depicted in this statement of work is expected to be carried by a SINGLE RESOURCE.
Requirements
The consultancy support for this service requires a Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI) developer with the following qualifications:
Required minimum qualifications are:
- Bachelor's degree in data analytics, computer science, engineering or related field;
- 3-5 years of extensive experience as Microsoft Power BI developer;
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL and data modelling techniques;
- Strong experience with translating business needs into technical specifications and Microsoft Power BI solutions for decision-making;
- Experience with evaluating and improving existing BI solution and conducting troubleshooting on BI models;
- Experience with maintaining data analytics platforms.
- Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills;
- Strong attention to detail;
- Good communication skills, both spoken and written, in English;
- Good presentation skills, taking in consideration the target audience;
- Team player, friendly and always willing to help others and to share knowledge;
- Good collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a multinational and diverse team;
- Growth mind set, always wanting to improve and to learn;
- Proactivity and taking ownership at all times.