Requirement: Senior Architect
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 99 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
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
Duties & Role:
- Develops architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
- Provides technical guidance on solution development and integration.
- Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
- Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience. As an exception, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely, at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.
- The service contractor will be required to have strong experience in enterprise and solution architecture, system-of-systems design, and governance in complex federated environments.
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including SysML and tools such as Cameo or Capella
- Enterprise and solution architecture methods
- NATO interoperability standards and architectural frameworks, including NAF, FMN, STANAGs, and TDL-related constraints
- API and microservices design
- Cloud-native and hybrid deployment architecture
- Integration architecture and interface control
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.
