Senior Enterprise Architect

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO’s posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

The Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions—Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements.

The Requirements Division executes requirements management for NATO capabilities. It develops capability requirements, provides traceability and quality assurance of capability requirements, performs gap analysis and supports interoperability and implementation options across the DOTMLPFI spectrum.

The Capabilities Requirements Branch, with cross-functional Requirements Management Teams, develops NATO capability requirements and recommend courses of action to resolve issues associated through lifecycle management. The Branch, in coordination with other branches in the Capability Division, performs requirements engineering, modelling, enterprise architecture and capability design activities to ensure shared understanding, consistency within and between capabilities, and completeness of the requirements sets. The Branch coordinates Divisional efforts in capability requirements development, traceability, and quality assurance support; gap analysis; and interoperability standards.

Principal Duties:

• Develop and maintain an overarching strategic Enterprise Architecture overview linking existing programme capability architectures.
• Perform modelling, architecture and design activities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.
• Support capability architects to ensure consistency of design and adherence to appropriate architectural standards and to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Develop, configure and maintain templates, guides, HOWTO documents and reports for Enterprise Architecture and Capability Architectures. Follow ArchiMate and NATO Architectural Framework 4 (NAF4) guidelines and best practices.
• Support the development of Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability within ACT by following high-level political guidance set by NATO senior governance committees, including NAC and MC endorsed strategies, C3 Board endorsed NATO EA Policies, and C3CAM agreed EA directives.
• Support the creation and maintenance of ACT level directives, rules and regulations guiding architecture development, baselining, verification and validation, and use
• Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition.
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of requirements at all levels.
• Establish and maintain a network of Subject Matter Experts (SME) to foster vertical and horizontal alignment and traceability.
• Supports the capability requirement engineering process for all capabilities by ensuring that appropriate views complement and clarify the requirements sets and the contextual information.
• Monitor overlaps, dependencies and consistency across capabilities, to foster coherence and optimisation across the Enterprise.
• Performs requirement validation and support technical reviews as requested.
• Support the change and configuration management processes to ensure the quality of capability requirements and architectural artefacts throughout the life cycle.
• Establish and maintain traceability within and between requirements sets, and with relevant architectural models.
• Maintain requirement artefacts in the repository ensuring versioning and configuration control.
• Support to the activities of all Capability Requirements Management Team in the area of requirements modelling and capability design.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to programmes and projects (e.g. to programme directors and requirements managers).
• Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.
• Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.
• Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
• Proposes changes to established process as part of the branch continuous improvement process.
• Liaise with communities of interest in ACT and NATO to maintain Enterprise level awareness, and with Industry, and Academia to retain cutting edge knowledge in the field of his/her expertise
• Contribute and participate in the development of policies, directives and process refinement related to architecture and requirements.
• Analyse and prepare Change Requests; perform impact assessments, identify implied changes and implement approved changes in accordance with the established change process.

Essential Qualifications / Experience:

• University Degree in business administration, engineering, economics, public administration, operations research, business process
  engineering or related discipline and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 2 years function related experience.
• Possess Expert-level certification in Enterprise Architecture, for example, TOGAF
• 6 years within the last ten of experience in development and maintenance of enterprise and systems architecture, and in requirements specification/management processes.
• Detailed knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and modelling frameworks such as NAF, DoDAF.
• Demonstrable recent experience (i.e. in the last 10 years) of applying ArchiMate notation for architecture modelling.
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating architectural work across multiple teams and projects.
• Demonstrable experience in presenting architectural information to non-technical audience and leadership.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and applying architectural quality standards, modeling guides and templates.
• Experience in business process modelling, data modelling and analysis, and viewpoint design.
• Experience in using common enterprise architecture and requirements management tools such as System Architect, DOORS, Troux, Enterprise Architect, Aris,
• Experience in Planning, Design, Systems Engineering, Integration and Implementation of NATO (or national) Command and Control, Communication and Information Systems.
• Experience in handing complex problems.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Trained in requirements capture/collection, definition, decomposition and requirements management processes.
• Trained in Through Life Cycle Capability Management processes.

Language:

English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Desirable Qualifications / Experience:

• Experience in the field of requirements engineering to include requirements management and requirements elicitation.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools.
• Experience in briefing senior leaders/decision makers at the FOGO/governance level in a National or Multinational environment.
• Knowledge of Capability Development and Management processes.
• Knowledge of Configuration Management methods and practices.
• Program and Project Management experience within a complex and dynamic program environment.
• ACT Program, portfolio and program management (P3) Course.
• ACT Capability Requirements and Development Course.
• DOORS Requirements Management tool.

Attributes/Competencies:

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Directs and supervises multi-functional teams, cross-functional staff, assigned contractors and costumer-funded personnel assigned to the branch or to programmes assigned to the branch

Professional Contacts:

• Able to liaise effectively both within and outside the HQ with military and civilian personnel up to the rank/position equivalent to OF-8 level. Outside contacts include senior officials in NATO HQ, NATO agencies and research centres, and national government agencies and industry.

Contribution To Objectives:

• There are financial implications and also significant cost savings for NATO and nations if solutions are cost effective and efficient and if the implementation of these solutions are successful

Security Clearance

The successful applicant will be required to apply for and receive a NATO SECRET Security Clearance prior to final confirmation of contract and commencement of employment.

Contract

• This position is linked to a specific NATO project and is for a limited duration of 3 (three) years only.
• Serving NATO International Civilian staff will be offered a contract in accordance with the NATO Civilian Personnel Regulations.  Newly recruited staff will be offered a three year definite duration contract.

Notes for Candidates

The HQ SACT web site gives full details on the eligibility criteria and application processes to be adopted by all candidates.  However, candidates should particularly note:

Please answer each of the pre-screening questions completely in English. Expressions such as: “please see attached CV, please see annex, please see enclosed document, etc” are not acceptable; this is a cause of immediate rejection of the application.

Particular attention should be given to Education and Experience section of your application form, which should be populated with details of your career to date and educational achievements and certifications as they relate to your application.

The candidature of NATO redundant staff at grade G17 will be considered with priority.

NATO will not accept any phase of the recruitment and selection prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. NATO reserves the right to screen applications to identify the use of such tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at NATO’s sole discretion, and NATO reserves the right to take further steps in such cases as appropriate.

This vacancy will close on 22 May 2024 @ 17:59hrs (EDT)/11:59hrs (CEST).