Interoperability Requirements Manager — Federated Programmes and Test Data for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States Norfolk Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a standing programme to make the systems of its member nations work together. This role sits at the requirements end of that work: drawing out what is needed writing it down so engineers can build against it and keeping the test evidence complete enough to report on.

What you would be doing

• Supporting federated interoperability across the whole capability lifecycle.
• Drawing out and recording interoperability requirements across every dimension of a capability not just the technical one.
• Contributing to the policies directives and concepts that govern how interoperability is done.
• Watching the quality completeness and consistency of test data in the designated tools and closing the gaps you find rather than reporting them.
• Running structured communication with the communities of interest and preparing participants for interoperability events.
• Giving participants timely usable guidance on the processes the tools and the events.
• Supporting the analysis of the data collected and producing the reports and briefings that come out of it.
• Administering role-based access to the interoperability test tooling.
• Travelling to meetings and conferences up to about thirty days a year.

What you would bring

• A four-year university degree or higher from a recognised institution.
• At least five of the last ten years working in multinational collaboration and coordination ideally in an alliance or comparable multinational setting.
• At least three of the last ten years supporting interoperability initiatives campaigns or exercises across several stakeholders and nations.
• At least three of the last ten years managing and delivering interoperability requirements including governance data collection and reporting.
• At least three of the last ten years planning and running events workshops conferences and exercises.
• Writing that holds up as a record: meeting notes action lists reports briefings.
• Fluent professional English.

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