Deadline Date:
Friday 24 October 2025
Requirement: Service Engineer (Early Engagement)
Location:
Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site:
Yes
Time On-Site:
100%
Not to Exceed:
64 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours):
152
Required Start Date:
1 December 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.
Duties and Role:
Requirements Definition and Management:
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
- Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
- Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
- Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
- Plans and drives systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans.
- Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques.
- Ensures that stakeholders are aware of required resources and that they are made available.
- Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources.
- Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects.
- Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
- Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.
- Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
- Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
- Defines complex/new integration builds.
- Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
- Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
- Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
- Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
Under the direction of the Executive Officer, but largely on own initiative, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:
- Collaborate with, and facilitate internal and external communication to fully document business needs and indicate solutions if required.
- Support the creation of requirements that meet the strategic needs of the business.
- Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, supporting the analysis and problem resolution.
- Support coherence, standardization effort, assure quality of products and alignment across the systems in the use of the optimal technologies, leading to faster implementation and reduced cost of maintenance.
- Contribute to the early Solution Architecting team activities related to customer support to upcoming requirements.
- Act as the interface to the CTO Early Engagement to allow the smooth transition of customer requirements to the NIMSC Project teams.
- Maintain active link NIMSC customers.
- Promote and enforce outsourcing of commodity services.
- Promote transition from assets to services.
- Deputize for higher grade staff, if required.
- Perform other duties as may be required.
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
- Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
- Experience with drafting ICT design and/or software development and planning of system and software delivery for large C4ISR projects
- Experience in identifying and assessing new and emerging technologies and their adoption into larger systems
- Experience in developing technology roadmaps taking into account emerging technology solutions.
- Experience managing relationships with technical stakeholders (internal and external)
- Proven ability to apply analytical and systems thinking to complex problems.
- Proven ability to moderate technical design related discussions with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proven experience with presenting complex technical concepts to a diverse audience and at times non-technical audience.
- Proven ability in process analysis, and design techniques, including needs assessment, specification development, planning and gap analysis
- Knowledge in The Open Group TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, COBIT, CISSP, or equivalent
- Knowledge and experience with Military C4ISR systems requirement capture, analysis and specifications