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Data Lake Delivery Engineer
The Hague
August 30, 2024
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Who we are supporting
The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:
- Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
- Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
- Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
- Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
- Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.
The program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO's principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.
To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.
Role Background
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for solution architect with experience in C2 System Engineering, Data Lake, Data Modelling and Cloud Activities.
Service Delivery Engineer will provide the technical C2 expert subject matter expertise solutions and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
Changes to service, process, organisation, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision.
Role Duties and Responsibilities
- Act in the position of the senior user expert to guide the development team to make sure that capabilities are being developed useful to NATO Enterprise.
- Act as a deputy Product Owner and, deputy, managing stakeholders to capture and develop the requirements, architecture, components and vision of Data Lake, Lake Diver and INT-CORE.
- Engage with user communities to capture the operational requirements.
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Participate in yearly exercises such as Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX) as one of the technical leads in the month of June taking place in Poland.
- Engage with nations to develop test plan scenario, architecture and support the execution of the exercise as the key SME.
- Visit operational entities across NATO Enterprise to conduct interviews with operators. Understand user requirements and translate the requirements into solutions.
- Produce detailed component specifications and transform it into detailed designs for implementation.
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The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
- If needed, act as part the development team by developing software code.
- Ensure appropriate standards (including industrial, international and NATO) are adhered.
- Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including supporting change management processes).
- Assist in the preparation of technical plans and works to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available.
- Rapid provision of information exchange bridging services;
- Supporting transformation of information exchanges from system centric to data centric;
- Aggregation of Battle Space Objects using different formats and protocols for all data sources;
- Flexible translation, fusion and augmentation of the data for consumers in a required format and protocol;
- Enhanced interoperability within NATO and nations between FAS;
- Improved situational awareness throughout the battle space;
- Integration with new data sources can be done without the software code changes, allowing the rapid delivery of validated solutions to emerging requirements;
- Provision of system administration, monitoring, error handling and error notification capabilities;
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Expert Military C2 system operations user with broad knowledge of many different types of C2 systems and product offerings.
- Ideally signals engineer with military background
- Strong knowledge of C2 systems integration in the ecosystem of military domain
- Strong knowledge of at least 4 years of experience with data translations, transformations and modelling processes OR 4 years of related experience in military message use, modelling and/or fusing such as TDL, Co T, NVG and LINK16 .
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The contractor has strong knowledge and practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40 months) with:
- Systems Integration using modern solutions such as Modern C2 systems or industry equivalent of Data Bricks, Apache Kafka, Sparks, Rabbit MQ and/or similar
- Software or System Architecting in modern industry standards such as UML
- Ideally knowledgeable in TOGAF or DODAG
- Knowledge of modern software development methodologies (e.g. Software development life cycles, Agile methodologies), a certification in the field of agile software development and/or SCRUM is a plus.
- The contractor is familiar with including DNS, domains, PKI certificates, network designs;
- Capable of leading team of contractors when needed.
- Comfortable in presenting solutions to working groups
- The contractor has a flexible, cooperative and customer focussed attitude; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way;
- The contractors must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.
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Language Proficiency
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required.
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It is desirable that they are well experienced with JSON, XML, XSD, will have to learn XQUERY and XPATH and/or XSLT rapidly,
- Very Desirable, but not mandatory knowledge in XSLT
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Hybrid (50% On-site)
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
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