Solution Architect (Deployable and Mobile CIS, NAFv4) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Eigenbrakel; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NATO organisation in Belgium seeks a Principal Solution Engineer to lead architecture of deployable, highly mobile communications solutions where power, wireless and satellite must work together in the field.

You will set standards, policies and practices for solution components, coordinate across projects, and drive scoping and prioritisation for large initiatives with a focus on security and resilience.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related discipline or a Bachelor's with eight years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience leading teams of technical staff.
• Design and integration experience for AC power, emergency generation, fuel storage, and UPS.
• Knowledge of wireless technologies including satellite communications.
• Experience with architecture modelling languages: UML, SysML, ArchiMate; in framework like TOGAF/NAFv4.
• Quality assurance practices in modern communications equipment development and fielding.
• ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation (or PMP) is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Lead the architecture development for complex communications solutions aligned with requirements.
• Set policies and practices for selecting architecture components.
• Balance functional, service quality and management requirements; communicate decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinate target architectures across multiple projects ensuring stability and compliance.
• Drive scoping, requirements and prioritisation for large initiatives; manage baselines and changes.
• Incorporate security and privacy into systems development policy and resource management.
• Produce or approve network architectures, topologies and design parameters for connectivity and security.
• Assess network risk and define recovery routines and contingency procedures.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Deployable CIS tech

Wireless & satellite

Architecture modeling

Security & privacy

Formation

Master's degree in a related discipline

Bachelor's degree with 8+ years experience

Description du poste

A NATO organisation in Braine-l'Alleud is looking for a principal solution engineer to lead the architecture of complex communications solutions — the deployable, dispersible and highly mobile kind, where power, wireless and satellite all have to work together in the field. This is a senior post: you would set the standards other projects build to.

What You Would Be Doing

• Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions and keeping them consistent with agreed requirements.
• Setting the policies, principles and practices for selecting solution architecture components.
• Managing trade-offs between functional, service quality and systems management requirements, and communicating the decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinating the target architecture across several projects at once, keeping the design stable and standards-compliant.
• Driving scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation on large initiatives — establishing baselines, negotiating competing priorities, and managing changes properly.
• Setting systems development policy and making security and privacy integral to it, and managing the resources, technical, financial and quality targets across all stages.
• Producing or approving network architectures, topologies and configuration databases, and specifying design parameters for connectivity, capacity, speed, interfacing, security and access.
• Assessing network risk and specifying recovery routines and contingency procedures, with design views for each stakeholder group.

What They Are Looking For

• A Master's degree in a related discipline with five years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's with eight.
• Proven experience leading teams of technical staff.
• Current and future deployable, dispersible and highly mobile CIS technologies.
• Design and systems integration experience covering AC power distribution, emergency generation and fuel storage, and UPS.
• A good grasp of wireless technologies including satellite communications.
• Architecture modelling languages — UML, SysML or ArchiMate — preferably inside an architecture framework (NAFv4, TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman) and model-based systems engineering.
• Quality assurance practice, and solid experience developing, implementing, fielding, testing and maintaining modern communications equipment.
• ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation (or an equivalent project management certification such as PMP).

Nice to have

• NATO Architecture Framework version 4, and Federated Mission Networking applied in service design.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent, and ArchiMate or TOGAF certification.
• An international environment with both military and civilian colleagues.

Practical detail

• Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium — full time on site, normal office environment, with temporary duty to other NATO sites in Belgium one to two times a month.
• 28 September to 30 December 2026, 488 hours in total.
• Graded at the equivalent of NATO G20.
• You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country with the right to work in Belgium.

If you have taken deployable communications from a requirement to something that actually works in the field, this is a role with real scope.