Senior Architect; Cyberspace

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 and is responsible for a holistic through‑life Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements.

The Capabilities Division coordinates the development of capabilities from planning through acceptance and disposal with the management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure. It synchronizes horizontally across capabilities to achieve coherent efforts and outcomes.

The Cyberspace Branch provides scientific, technical and operational expertise for the development and continuous improvement of modern and agile Cyberspace capabilities, including Cyber Defence and enabling cryptographic infrastructure. The Branch provides services and products through a competency‑aligned structure to support product, programme coordination across DOTMLPFI lines of development throughout the lifecycle. It supports cyber concepts development, capability requirements elicitation, architectures (including cryptographic reference and target architectures) and federated interoperability.

Within the Cyber Branch the incumbent’s main responsibility is to collate, generate, manage, update and improve capability architectures.

• Conduct a permanent critical analysis and review of existing and under‑development cyberspace architectural products in tandem with related technical context such as requirements, system descriptions, concepts, etc., to gain a big picture perspective of Cyberspace capabilities across multiple projects.
• Liaise with ACT Technical Director (TD), Programme Directors (PDs) and Subject Matter experts (SMEs) in ACT, NCIA and other organizations to understand and describe NATO Cyberspace environment and analyse upcoming cyberspace requirements to develop new architectural products or augment existing ones.
• Develop NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) views, mainly using NAFv4 methodology.
• Coordinate and align the capability architectures with NATO HQ Office of CIO enterprise architectural views and products.
• Support the TD and the PDs in adopting and further customizing architecture products in support of development of other products, including but not limited to capability breakdowns, capability descriptions and capability project plans.
• Engage with, and coordinate, relevant Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, nations, industry, and academia) for input to architectural development process.
• Prepare relevant briefing materials, as required, and deliver presentations.

• University Degree in information technology, information systems engineering, business administration, quality engineering, information security, computer science or related discipline and 4 years post‑related experience, or Higher Secondary education with advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or accreditation with 5 years post‑related and 2 years function‑related experience.
• Certified as one of the following:
  Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
• Certified in TOGAF (or NAF), or alternatively 4 years of experience in applying either methodology.
• Six years’ hands‑on experience in large, complex capability engineering, including development, implementation and commissioning. Managing resources to develop capabilities will not be considered valid experience.
• Six years’ experience as lead/key contributor in the development of capability or technical level architecture products for complex systems environments,…