Requirement: System Engineer
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 79 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:
- Contributes to the development of domain architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Contributes to the specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Supports projects through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
- Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
- Assist in scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
- Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
- Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
- Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
- Provides input to the requirements baseline.
- Investigates, manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
- 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.
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.
- System-of-systems engineering and lifecycle management
- Requirements engineering and traceability, including use of structured tooling such as DOORS or equivalent
- Technical baseline and interface management
- Integration planning and verification strategy development
- Operational domain knowledge, particularly in AirC2, federated mission operations and NATO operational constructs
- Human factors, usability analysis and user journey assessment
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.
