Strategic Tech Lead: Deployable Communications

Work Life Group; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 96,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in the Netherlands seeks a seasoned communications strategist to relocate to Norfolk, VA, with NATO-5 visa support. You will serve as the technical authority on future deployable communications technologies, guiding capabilities and architecture across multinational forces.

You will assess current systems, develop technical recommendations, and deliver briefings and evaluation reports. This long-engagement role emphasizes risk analysis and integration with legacy networks.

Qualifications

• A university degree in CS/IT/EE/telecommunications or equivalent.
• At least three years supporting enterprise or tactical communications systems.
• At least three years in cloud computing, network automation, enterprise or tactical networking.
• Experience with satellite communications, cyber security, zero trust or AI-assisted network management.
• Experience deployable communications or signals as SME.
• At least three years supporting capability development and integrating emerging technologies.
• At least three years of technical analysis, written findings and technical briefings.
• At least three years in an alliance or multinational military environment.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Advising the programme director on future deployable communications technologies.
• Assessing current systems and performing capability gap analyses.
• Developing technical recommendations for modernisation initiatives.
• Taking part in architecture reviews and supporting strategic planning.
• Evaluating commercial and government-developed technologies for deployed use.
• Producing technical evaluation reports and delivering technical briefings.
• Evaluating how future technologies integrate with existing architectures, and how they interoperate with legacy systems, mission networks and enterprise services.
• Supporting operational test and evaluation, and reviewing post-exercise findings.
• Running technical risk assessments and recommending mitigations.

Skills

Fluent English

Enterprise networking

Tactical networking

Cloud computing

Network automation

Cyber security

Zero trust

AI-assisted network management

Satellite communications

Education

University degree in computer science, information technology, computer or electrical engineering, telecommunications or an equivalent field

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 is planning the next generation of the communications systems that deploy with its forces. This role is the technical authority on what comes next: assessing technologies, finding the gaps, and saying plainly what should be adopted.

What you would be doing

• Advising the programme director on future deployable communications technologies.
• Assessing current systems and performing capability gap analyses.
• Developing technical recommendations for modernisation initiatives.
• Taking part in architecture reviews and supporting strategic planning.
• Evaluating commercial and government-developed technologies for deployed use.
• Producing technical evaluation reports and delivering technical briefings.
• Evaluating how future technologies integrate with existing architectures, and how they interoperate with legacy systems, mission networks and enterprise services.
• Supporting operational test and evaluation, and reviewing post-exercise findings.
• Running technical risk assessments and recommending mitigations.

What you would bring

• A university degree in computer science, information technology, computer or electrical engineering, telecommunications or an equivalent field.
• At least three years supporting enterprise or tactical communications systems.
• At least three years of demonstrated expertise in one or more of cloud computing, network automation, enterprise networking or tactical networking.
• Experience with satellite communications, cyber security, zero trust or AI-assisted network management.
• Experience in deployable communications or signals as a subject matter expert.
• At least three years supporting capability development and integrating emerging technologies.
• At least three years of technical analysis, written findings and technical briefings.
• At least three years in an alliance or multinational military environment.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.