NATO-Secret System Engineer – The Hague

EMW; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

EMW in The Hague is seeking a System Engineer with active NATO SECRET clearance to contribute to multi-domain architectures and project work. The role focuses on translating high-level designs into detailed specifications, ensuring security alignment, and managing requirements through to implementation.

The candidate will work on-site in the Netherlands, supporting scoping, prioritization, and resource coordination for NATO-related initiatives and complex change programs.

Qualifications

• Active NATO SECRET clearance.
• Bachelor of Science in a technical subject with substantial IT content and 3 years post-related experience, or 5 years without a degree.
• Experience in system engineering, domain and user-oriented capabilities.
• System-of-systems engineering and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to domain architectures across business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
• Specifies cloud-based or on-premises components and translates into detailed designs.
• Supports projects via technical plans and design principles.
• Ensures alignment with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
• Assists in scoping, requirements definition, and prioritization for small changes; supports complex changes.
• Elicits and documents detailed requirements per standards; reviews for errors and omissions.
• Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
• Provides input to the requirements baseline and manages change requests.
• Ensures stakeholder resources are identified and available; facilitates resource utilization.
• Monitors and reports progress of development projects.

Skills

System engineering

Requirements engineering

Traceability

Architecture principles

Security compliance

Education

BSc in a technical IT-related subject

Tools

DOORS

Job description

EMW in The Hague is seeking a System Engineer with active NATO SECRET clearance to contribute to multi-domain architectures and project work. The role focuses on translating high-level designs into detailed specifications, ensuring security alignment, and managing requirements through to implementation.

The candidate will work on-site in the Netherlands, supporting scoping, prioritization, and resource coordination for NATO-related initiatives and complex change programs.