Project Manager (Maritime C2 Data Integration)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Northwood; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, HQ MARCOM, Northwood, UK, seeks a Project Manager (Maritime C2 Data Integration) to lead data integration initiatives and strengthen governance across MARCOM. This fixed-term role focuses on delivering data-driven insights to support maritime operations.

The role requires 5+ years delivering business change projects, a degree in a relevant field, and experience with AI/data tools. Competitive salary and benefits offered in a NATO context.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience delivering business change projects.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant field (Business/CS) with 4 years post-related experience.
• Higher Secondary education with advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification with 5 years post-related and 2 years function-related experience.
• Demonstrable experience delivering data integration projects using AI tools e.g. Databricks, Watson, TensorFlow.
• Demonstrable experience using mathematical and statistical models to solve business problems.
• Demonstrable experience applying data science, analytics and data integration tools on real-world datasets like Python or R.

Responsibilities

• Deliver data integration projects across multiple sources and platforms.
• Lead the centre of excellence for data integration and community of practice for PM and data science.
• Identify opportunities to enhance command and control through improved data integration.

Skills

Project management

Data integration

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Degree in Business/CS

Advanced vocational qualification

Tools

Databricks

Watson

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

TensorFlow

Python

R

KNIME

Splunk

Hadoop

Spark

MapReduce

Job description

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Job Description - Project Manager (Maritime C2 Data Integration) (261278)

Primary Location

United Kingdom-Northwood

NATO Body

Headquarters Allied Maritime Command (HQ MARCOM)

Schedule

Full-time

Application Deadline

30-Sep-2026, 9:59:00 PM

Pound Sterling (GBP) Monthly

Grade NATO Grade G17

Description

Post Number: OMC OXXX 1010

Job Title: Project Manager (Maritime C2 Data Integration)

NATO Grade: NATO GRADE 17

NATO Body: Headquarters Allied Maritime Command (HQ MARCOM)

Location: Northwood, Middlesex, UK

Security Clearance Level: NATO Secret

Basic Monthly Salary: £ 7646.99 (tax free) + attractive benefits

Closing Date: 30 September 2026

Background

HQMARCOMisNATO’scentralcommandforallmaritimeforces,responsibleforplanning,coordinating,andover-seeingnavaloperations,aswellasadvisingNATOleadershiponmaritimematters.

In order to strengthen its awareness of the maritime environment, HQ MARCOM is pursuing a number of initiatives to improve maritime situational awareness and strengthen operational decision making.

We are seeking a number of highly motivated individuals with skills and experience in delivering projects that enable data-driven decisions through improved data integration, engineering and analysis. If you have experience in Project Management, Data Science, Data Engineering or Data Integration and a desire to contribute to peace and prosperity of NATO member countries then we’d love to hear from you.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of the role is to deliver projects which integrate data from different sources across multiple platforms to enhance operational decision making. Additionally, this role will take the lead in strengthening MARCOM’s Project Management and Data Governance practices.

Overview

This is a fixed-term 3-year role which will concurrently deliver critical data integration projects and create a centre of excellence (CoE) for data integration and professional community of practice (CoP) for project management and data science professionals across MARCOM.

Areas of Focus

Project Delivery - Assigned data integration projects have been successfully implemented and customer benefits are being delivered as planned.

Capability Development - MARCOM has a clear understanding of the technical capabilities available to it in the field of Project Management and Data Science. MARCOM leaders are intelligent users of these capabilities.

Opportunity Identification - MARCOM has an objectively qualified and clearly prioritised view of opportunities to further enhance command and control through improved data integration

Capability Resilience - MARCOM has developed and adopted the appropriate architecture (policies, procedures, guidelines and ways of working) to strengthen maturity and enable continuous improvement in the areas of data integration.

Your Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

5 years experience of successfully delivering business change projects

Educated to Degree level in relevant field (Business / Computer Science etc) and with 4 years post related experience; or

Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 2 years function related experience.

Demonstrable experience of delivering data integration projects using Al and or Machine Learning Tools e.g. Databricks, Watson, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, TensorFlow.

Demonstrable experience of using mathematical and statistical models to solve business problems.

Demonstrable experience of applying data science, analytics and data integration tools/programming languages on real-world datasets e.g. Python, R, KNIME, Splunk, Geo data.

Desirable:

Industry recognised qualification / accreditation in Project Management

Experience with data visualisation tools e.g. Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau

Experience of briefing and communication analytical products to non-technical staff

Experience of using big data ecosystems e.g. Hadoop, Spark and/or MapReduce.

Experience of working in NATO or similar multi-national defence / security sector.

Why work with us?

By joining our organization, you will be part of a committed and diverse multi-national team who share a common desire of safeguarding peace and promoting democratic values for over a billion people. We are committed to fostering a collaborative work environment built on mutual respect and professionalism, where every individual’s work makes a difference and has a meaningful impact on the mission and operation of the Alliance.

Note.

NATO will not accept any phase of the recruitment and selection process, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. NATO reserves the right to screen applications to identify the use of such tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at NATO’s sole discretion, and NATO reserves the right to take further steps in such cases as appropriate.