Senior Capability Engineer

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia. 

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff. 

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. The Air Command and Control (AirC2) Business Area is tasked to build and support NATO’s AirC2 and BMD capabilities.  This requires the support of a team of high performance technical experts to advise on and perform the required technical work to develop and maintain those capabilities.

The Engineering Functional Group ensures AirC2 capabilities are developed in line with NATO policies, maintaining coherence and interoperability across systems. It acts as the AirC2 Technical Design Authority, managing domain architectures, strategies, and technical assets, and supports multi-domain NATO operations.

We are recruiting for a Senior Capability Engineer— an Air Mission Control domain-specific technical specialist who will orchestrate system-of-system development, design capabilities based on requirements, maintain and evolve domain architectures, and ensure the completeness, feasibility, and interoperability of solutions in coordination with solution engineers.

Your role will include the following duties: 

• Strategy and planning
• Requirements definition and management
• Systems development management

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site here:  

Senior Capability Engineer - AirC2

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience.
• Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
• We require a minimum of 3 years of recent experience in the development of complex software-intensive Air C2 and/or Ballistic Missile Defence Systems to include planning, management, analysis, design, implementation, test and installation aspects;
• Excellent briefing skills and the ability to produce clear and concise reports.

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history.
• 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances.
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave.
• Excellent private health insurance scheme.
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays.
• NATO Pension Scheme.
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.  

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.  

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.