Interoperability Requirements Lead — Norfolk

Work Life Group; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is relocating a role to the United States (Norfolk, Virginia) with NATO-5 visa support. The position focuses on drawing out interoperability requirements and ensuring test evidence is complete for engineers.

You will work to make federated interoperability across the capability lifecycle coherent across nations and tools. The role requires a four-year degree and extensive experience in multinational collaboration, interoperability initiatives, governance, and event planning.

Qualifications

• Four-year university degree or higher from a recognised institution.
• At least five of the last ten years in multinational collaboration and coordination.
• At least three of the last ten years supporting interoperability initiatives across several nations.
• At least three of the last ten years managing interoperability requirements, governance, data collection and reporting.
• At least three of the last ten years planning events, workshops, conferences and exercises.
• Excellent written communication and record-keeping.

Responsibilities

• Support federated interoperability across the capability lifecycle.
• Draw out and record interoperability requirements across dimensions beyond the technical.
• Contribute to governance policies, directives and concepts for interoperability.
• Monitor test data quality and close gaps in designated tools.
• Coordinate communications with communities of interest and prepare for interoperability events.
• Provide timely guidance on processes, tools and events to participants.
• Administer role-based access to interoperability test tooling.
• Travel to meetings and conferences up to about 30 days a year.

Skills

Interoperability coordination

Multinational collaboration

Event planning

Writing & reporting

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it — not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

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.