RFQ C004663 - Interim Solution Architect – Service Design Advocacy

McBride International; Brussel; Presencial; EUR 85.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

McBride International seeks an Interim Solution Architect to lead service design advocacy for ICT security architectures in Brussels, focusing on threat modelling, risk assessments, and governance-compliant architecture outputs. You will coordinate with NATO NCIA stakeholders and deliver architecture documentation while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.

The role requires extensive experience in security architecture, TOGAF/ArchiMate knowledge, and the ability to produce formal

Formación

• University degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Higher Secondary Education with 4 years post-related experience.
• Experience in ICT infrastructure projects and security architectures in large organisations.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, ArchiMate, and security governance practices.

Responsabilidades

• Provide complete infrastructure and security architecture packages, including diagrams, data flows, and responsibility mapping.
• Perform risk assessments and threat modelling with mitigations.
• Develop architecture decisions with rationale and approvals for governance reviews.
• Coordinate with NATO and CSO stakeholders to ensure architectural coherence.

Conocimientos

Security architecture

Risk modelling

Threat modelling

ICT infrastructure

Governance

Educación

University degree

Higher secondary education

Herramientas

TOGAF Certification

Sparx EA

ArchiMate

Descripción del empleo

RFQ C004663 - Interim Solution Architect – Service Design Advocacy

Brussels, Belgium | Posted on 18/02/2026

McBride, based in McLean, VA, USA, and with offices in Brussels, BEL and Bucharest; ROU through its wholly owned subsidiary McBride International, is a Prime Contractor on the NCIA Advisory and Assistance Services Plus (AAS+) Framework.We are a management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes IT transformation, project management, digital transformation, strategic planning, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, systems engineering, and operations. Due to our excellent relationship with NATO and the first-class, security cleared candidates that we source and supply from all 32 NATO nations, we are extremely privileged to ask you to review this role to assess your suitability of skills. You will be working as a contractor for our client the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)NCIA was established on 1 July 2012 from a merger of several NATO entities. It has a 65-year legacy of supporting NATO operations, missions, and exercises and is on the frontlines against cyber threats, protecting NATO's networks 24/7. NCIA provides expertise and services that are critical to NATO's ability to fulfill its core tasks of consultation, collective defence, and crisis management.

Job Description

• Provide complete infrastructure and security architecture packages, including logical and physical diagrams, trust boundaries, data flows, and responsibility mapping.
  
• Define and map security controls to approved requirements and standards. Maintain requirements traceability linking business, functional, technical, and security requirements to architectural decisions.
  
• Perform infrastructure risk assessments and threat modelling, including threats, vulnerabilities, risk ratings, impacts, and mitigations.
  
• Produce formal architecture review and decision records with rationale and approvals.
  
• Deliver stakeholder advisory outputs, review comments, and resolution records. Assess architecture compliance against standards and policies, documenting remediation or approved exceptions. Consolidate residual risks and agreed mitigations.
  
• Derive technical and security requirements from approved business and functional needs. Develop risk-prioritized security architecture artifacts aligned with business objectives and regulatory obligations.
  
• Define and consistently apply a security taxonomy and ontology.
• Establish architecture modelling standards, procedures, roles, and approvals. Configure and administer the enterprise architecture platform, including templates and viewpoints. Develop ICT and security architecture models using standard frameworks and tools.
  
• Maintain a modular, data-centric architecture repository with reusable components. Deliver analysis and assessment reports documenting assumptions, constraints, risks, and design rationale.
  
• Develop threat-driven security models demonstrating prevention, detection, and response. Conduct impact assessments for new threats, technologies, or regulations, tracking gaps for resolution.
  
• Record architecture decisions for significant deviations, including risk acceptance and compensating controls.
  
• Provide a security architecture effectiveness dashboard measuring threat coverage, control performance, risk exposure, and technical debt aligned with recognized standards.
  
• Deliver governance-compliant architecture inputs to TechnicalDesign Authority reviews.
• Produce stakeholder-tailored architecture documentation for decision-making. Ensure knowledge transfer, including user guides and training, to sustain architecture repositories and tools.
  
• Consult and coordinate with SMEs and IT teams, validating major architectural decisions with documented sign-off. Provide timely architecture reports highlighting risks, dependencies, and decision impacts.
  
• Support ICT governance aligned with international best practices.
• Coordinate with NATO HQ entities to ensure architectural coherence and alignment with NATO Enterprise and Digital Transformation initiatives.
  
• Represent CSU Brussels in governance bodies, working groups, and policy forums. Contribute to the development and standardization of policies, procedures, and guidance for information security and risk management.
  
• Evolve ICT and security architectures to reflect changing business requirements and cyber threats. Maintain architecture models, taxonomy, and repositories under approved governance.
  
• Ensure architecture data accuracy, completeness, and compliance with governance and audit standards.
  

Requirements

Essential education, experience, and training:

• University Degree and 5 years function related experience or Higher Secondary Education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience;
  
• Have minimum 3 years proven professional experience in projects related to construction and ICT infrastructure implementation;
  
• Have 3 years applied knowledge of ICT and Security Architecture models, preferably based on internationally recognized frameworks, within a large organisation with an accent on ICT infrastructure and security architectures;
  
• Have worked in an ICT services organisation that actually managed modern ICT & Security systems;
  
• Have a good conceptual understanding and technical knowledge of current and emerging information systems and technologies, and security-related aspects, including project-related organisational aspects;
  
• Experience and knowledge with the design and deployment of technology, its impact to business, operation and security posture;
  
• Experience drafting precise and concise reports on complex ICT-related technical topics;
  
• Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF Foundation certification); and
  

Desirable education, experience, and training:

• Full Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF 9 or 10 certified);
  
• Sparx EA and ArchiMate knowledge and working experience;
  
• Have experience with Data Centre Design, Infrastructure support systems, network capacity planning;
  
• Have developed, maintained and led Security Architectures toaddress highly classified environment, including the active support
• of the security accreditation process;
• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements; and
  
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.