NATO System Engineer – AirC2 & Federated Operations

Spektrum; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks a System Engineer to support NATO NCIA initiatives in a high-security environment. You will handle system-of-systems engineering, requirements management and integration planning for Air Command & Control and Federated Mission Operations.

Start: 8 November 2026; End: 30 December 2026; total scope: 600 hours; on-site, full-time. The role requires a BSc in a technical IT field or equivalent experience, with NATO security clearance preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical IT field or equivalent experience is required.
• Extensive experience in system engineering and requirements management.
• Experience with IBM DOORS or similar tooling is essential.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to domain architectures across business, infrastructure and functional areas.
• Support specifications for cloud-based and on-premises systems, components, tiers and interfaces.
• Prepare technical plans and apply system design principles.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards including security.
• Support requirements scoping, definition and prioritisation.
• Elicit and document detailed technical requirements.
• Review requirements for errors and omissions.
• Maintain requirements traceability and baselines.
• Manage changes to baselined requirements.
• Develop integration plans and verification strategies.
• Support system-of-systems engineering and lifecycle management.
• Coordinate resources and stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on development progress.
• Consider human factors and usability in system engineering.

Skills

System-of-systems engineering

Requirements engineering

IBM DOORS

Technical baseline management

Interface management

Integration planning

Verification strategy

AirC2 knowledge

Federated mission ops

NATO constructs

Human factors

User journeys

System engineering

Education

BSc in a technical IT subject

5 years relevant experience in lieu of degree

Tools

DOORS

Job description

Spektrum in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks a System Engineer to support NATO NCIA initiatives in a high-security environment. You will handle system-of-systems engineering, requirements management and integration planning for Air Command & Control and Federated Mission Operations.

Start: 8 November 2026; End: 30 December 2026; total scope: 600 hours; on-site, full-time. The role requires a BSc in a technical IT field or equivalent experience, with NATO security clearance preferred.