Requirement: Provide Data Engineering Support Services to the NATO Cyber and Digital Transformation Division
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 90 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 900
Required Start Date: As Soon As Possible
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
Special Terms and Conditions: The contractor will be responsible for complying with the respective national requirements for working permits, visas, taxes, social security etc. whilst working on site at NATO HQ Brussels, Belgium. No special status is either conferred or implied by the host organisation, NATO HQ Brussels, Belgium to the contractor whilst working on site.
Introduction:
- The NATO Cyber and Digital Transformation Division (CDT) is developing the NATO Repository of Allied Cyber Responses, an Alliance-wide tool that consolidates information on significant malicious cyber activities targeting Allies, threat actor profiles and the responses taken by Allies. The aim is to strengthen shared situational awareness, identify response patterns, support strategic decision-making, and strengthen coherence across the Alliance.
- As the Repository approaches launch in Q1 2026, CDT requires a dedicated Data Engineer to support data extraction, transformation, and loading as well as analytical output generation. This role is critical to ensure that the Repository operates with accurate, consistent, and relevant data that can inform NATO's cyber decision-making processes.
- In addition, efforts are underway to streamline the Cyber Defence Pledge (CDP) process, NATO's flagship mechanism to track Allied cyber resilience postures. The Data Engineer will be required to help create a data analysis and visualisation portal (similar in function to the Repository) that will streamline data processing of Allied self-assessments. The data analysis capabilities will be required to identify trends and anomalies in Allied data, as well as comparative analysis of Allied progress over time by comparing annual submissions.
- We are seeking a motivated professional with strong technical and analytical skills and an ability to communicate with non-technical audiences.
The contractor will effectively and efficiently provide the following services:
Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading
- Tasks include: extracting data from input files, transforming data according to the necessary formats and loading data into the Repository platform. Ensuring smooth data flow into Pledge data analysis model. Maintaining the current data pipelines and developing new data pipelines to incorporate new sources of data.
- Measurement: Successful integration of data in the tools. Successful development of any new data pipelines as required.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
- Tasks include: Work with the Repository team to understand requirements for analysis and visualization. Develop and optimize data models and data views that allow for analysis of all relevant aspects of the data. Working with the Pledge team to create an interactive portal/data model to facilitate analysis of Allied returns.
- Measurement: Ease of finding and visualizing the relevant data.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
- Tasks include: Support the data analyst in cleaning and standardising data from external sources (Repository and Pledge). Identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and missing elements in the data and flagging these to the data analyst and the project manager (PM).
- Measurement: Support to the data analyst and PM.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
- Tasks include: Investigate potential tools for data processing, data integration and visualization that could be used in a NATO environment. Advising the team on technical choices by clearly communicating the options to a non-technical audience.
- Measurement: Proactively providing information on technical choices. Providing advice as required.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
- Tasks include: Support the data analyst in producing analytical products by creating dashboards and visual analytics. Potentially also use large language models to extract insights from unstructured data.
- Measurement: Relevant analytical products produced as required.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
- Tasks include: Document data pipelines, codes and data models. Information sharing with the team and onboarding of new team members.
- Measurement: Quality of documentation and information sharing efforts.
- When: Continuously throughout 2026.
Required qualifications:
- Strong analytical and technical skills.
- 2+ years experience working as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
- Professional experience in planning and executing the data science lifecycle / data pipelines, including ingestion, pre-processing, quality assurance, analysing, post-processing and visualisation.
- Proficiency in Python for data processing.
- Knowledge of ArcGIS software.
- Very good written and spoken English.
- Proactive and highly detail-oriented.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team and to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
- The candidate must have a NATO SECRET security clearance.
- Proficiency in ArcGIS API for Python.
- Professional experience in configuring an ArcGIS Enterprise portal and its applications, such as ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcGIS Notebooks, Survey123, and Workflow Manager, with preferred basic knowledge of ArcGIS Pro.
- Experience in visualization and building of web applications.
- Knowledge of NATO networks and data engineering/analysis tools available on those networks.
