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

Wlgroup; Eigenbrakel; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is seeking a senior solution engineer to own the architecture of deployable systems, ensuring power, wireless and satellite links integrate seamlessly. You will establish the standards that future projects follow and guide design choices across multiple programs.

You will lead teams, shape security practices, and manage baselines, requirements, and change control throughout development and deployment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or Bachelor's with significant experience (5+ or 8+ years).
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Knowledge of deployable, dispersible and highly mobile CIS tech.
• Design and integration with AC power, generators and UPS.
• Strong understanding of wireless tech including SATCOM.
• Architecture modelling with UML/SysML/Archimate; MBSE.
• Hands-on fielding, testing and maintenance of modern comms equipment.
• ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation or PMP.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for complex solutions and align with requirements.
• Set principles for selecting architecture components and trade-offs.
• Maintain a stable target architecture across multiple projects.
• Scope and define baselines and change control.
• Embed security and privacy from the start.
• Produce or approve network designs: topology, capacity, interfaces, security and access.
• Assess network risk and define recovery procedures.

Skills

Mastery in leadership

Security and privacy by design

Wireless and SATCOM knowledge

UML/SysML/Archimate MBSE

Fielding and maintenance of comms gear

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Communications that have to work in a field, not just in a lab. You would design them.

A multinational defence organisation near Brussels needs a senior solution engineer to own the architecture of complex deployable systems, where power, wireless and satellite links all have to fit together. You would set the standards other projects build to.

What you would be doing

• Leading architecture for complex solutions and keeping it true to the agreed requirements
• Setting the principles for choosing architecture components and explaining trade-offs to stakeholders
• Keeping one stable target architecture across several projects at once
• Running scoping and requirements work on large initiatives, including baselines and change control
• Making security and privacy part of systems development from the start
• Producing or approving network designs: topology, capacity, interfaces, security and access
• Assessing network risk and defining recovery and contingency procedures

What you would bring

• A Master's degree and 5 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's and 8 years
• Experience leading teams of technical staff
• Knowledge of deployable, dispersible and highly mobile CIS technology
• Design and integration experience with AC power distribution, emergency generators and UPS
• A good understanding of wireless technology, including SATCOM
• Architecture modelling (UML, SysML or ArchiMate), ideally within NAFv4, TOGAF or DODAF and MBSE
• Hands-on experience fielding, testing and maintaining modern communications equipment
• ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation or PMP
• A plus: Federated Mission Networking, PRINCE2 Practitioner, ArchiMate or TOGAF certification

Why this one is worth a look

Real technical authority: the architecture you set is the one the field teams rely on.