Requirement: Principal Solution Engineer
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 102 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 7 January 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP 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 & Role:
Solution architecture
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
Solution architecture
- Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
- Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
- Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
- Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
- Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
- Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
- Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.
- Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques.
- Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management.
- Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
- Establishes requirements baselines.
- Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
- Sets policy and drives adherence to standards for systems development.
- Leads activities to make security and privacy integral to systems development.
- Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of systems development projects.
- Ensures that technical, financial and quality targets are met.
- Produces, or approves network providers', network architectures, topologies and configuration databases for own area of responsibility.
- Specifies design parameters for network connectivity, capacity, speed, interfacing, security and access, in line with business requirements.
- Assesses network-related risks and specifies recovery routines and contingency procedures.
- Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders' concerns and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET security clearance
- A Master's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience. Or a Bachelor's degree with 8 years post related experience.
- Proven experience of managing teams of technical personnel;
- Knowledge of current and future Mobile Infrastructure (Deployable, Dispersible, Highly mobile CIS) technologies and trends;
- Experience with design and systems integration (e.g. AC Power distribution equipment, emergency AC Power generation and associated fuel storage, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS));
- Good understanding of current and future Wireless technologies and trends (to include SATCOM);
- Experience with Architecture modelling language(s) (UML, SysML, ArchiMate, etc.), preferably in the context of an Architecture Framework (NAFv4, TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, etc.) and Models Based Systems Engineering (MBSE);
- Experience in applying quality assurance practices;
- Sound experience in development, implementation, fielding, testing and maintenance of modern communications equipment;
- ITIL Foundation;
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent Project Management Framework (e.g. PMP) certification;
- Knowledge and experience in applying the "NATO Architecture Framework, version 4";
- Knowledge and experience in the application of Federated Mission Networking (FMN) in service design;
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements;
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT;
- PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent (e.g. PMP) certification;
- ArchiMate or TOGAF or equivalent certification;