Interoperability Requirements Manager — Federated Programmes and Test Data for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in Belgium seeks an interoperability specialist to drive requirements, governance, and reporting for multinational collaborations, with relocation to Norfolk, USA under a NATO-5 visa.

You will draw out and record interoperability requirements across dimensions, contribute to governing policies, monitor test data quality, and communicate with diverse communities of interest to prepare participants for interoperability events.

Qualifications

• A four-year university degree is required.
• Five of the last ten years should be in multinational collaboration and coordination.
• Three of the last ten years should be supporting interoperability initiatives across multiple stakeholders and nations.
• Three of the last ten years should involve managing and delivering interoperability requirements, governance, data collection and reporting.
• Three of the last ten years should include planning and running events, workshops, conferences and exercises.
• Fluent professional English is required.

Responsibilities

• Support federated interoperability across the entire capability lifecycle.
• Draw out and record interoperability requirements across dimensions, not just the technical one.
• Contribute to policies, directives and concepts governing interoperability.
• Monitor the quality, completeness and consistency of test data in designated tools and close gaps found.
• Run structured communication with communities of interest and prepare participants for interoperability events.
• Provide timely, usable guidance on processes, tools and events.
• Support the analysis of data and produce reports and briefings.
• Administer role-based access to interoperability test tooling.
• Travel to meetings and conferences up to about 30 days per year.

Skills

Fluent English

Stakeholder engagement

Interoperability

Documentation

Multinational cooperation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a standing programme to make the systems of its member nations work together. This role sits at the requirements end of that work: drawing out what is needed, writing it down so engineers can build against it, and keeping the test evidence complete enough to report on.

What you would be doing

• Supporting federated interoperability across the whole capability lifecycle.
• Drawing out and recording interoperability requirements across every dimension of a capability, not just the technical one.
• Contributing to the policies, directives and concepts that govern how interoperability is done.
• Watching the quality, completeness and consistency of test data in the designated tools, and closing the gaps you find rather than reporting them.
• Running structured communication with the communities of interest and preparing participants for interoperability events.
• Giving participants timely, usable guidance on the processes, the tools and the events.
• Supporting the analysis of the data collected, and producing the reports and briefings that come out of it.
• Administering role-based access to the interoperability test tooling.
• Travelling to meetings and conferences up to about thirty days a year.

What you would bring

• A four-year university degree or higher from a recognised institution.
• At least five of the last ten years working in multinational collaboration and coordination, ideally in an alliance or comparable multinational setting.
• At least three of the last ten years supporting interoperability initiatives, campaigns or exercises across several stakeholders and nations.
• At least three of the last ten years managing and delivering interoperability requirements, including governance, data collection and reporting.
• At least three of the last ten years planning and running events, workshops, conferences and exercises.
• Writing that holds up as a record: meeting notes, action lists, reports, briefings.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.