Principal Solution Engineer for NATO with security clearance

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization

We are seeking a seasoned Principal Solution Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of complex mission-critical communications and information systems within NATO. This senior role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise in mobile infrastructure wireless technologies and enterprise architecture frameworks. You will be responsible for developing viable architectures managing stakeholder requirements and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions that support NATOs operational needs across deployable dispersible and highly mobile environments.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.

• Establishes policies principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.

• Manages trade-offs and balances functional service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.

• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.

• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.

• Maintains a stable viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

• Plans and drives scoping requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large complex initiatives.

• Selects adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods tools and techniques.

• Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management.

• Obtains input from and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.

• Establishes requirements baselines.

• Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.

• Sets policy and drives adherence to standards for systems development.

• Leads activities to make security and privacy integral to systems development.

• Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of systems development projects.

• Ensures that technical financial and quality targets are met.

• Produces or approves network providers network architectures topologies and configuration databases for own area of responsibility.

• Specifies design parameters for network connectivity capacity speed interfacing security and access in line with business requirements.

• Assesses network-related risks and specifies recovery routines and contingency procedures.

• Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders concerns and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• A Masters degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience. Or a Bachelors degree with 8 years post related experience.

• Proven experience of managing teams of technical personnel;

• Knowledge of current and future Mobile Infrastructure (Deployable Dispersible Highly mobile CIS) technologies and trends;

• Experience with design and systems integration (e.g. AC Power distribution equipment emergency AC Power generation and associated fuel storage Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS));

• Good understanding of current and future Wireless technologies and trends (to include SATCOM);

• Experience with Architecture modelling language(s) (UML SysML ArchiMate etc.) preferably in the context of an Architecture Framework (NAFv4 TOGAF DODAF Zachman etc.) and Models Based Systems Engineering (MBSE);

• Experience in applying quality assurance practices;

• Sound experience in development implementation fielding testing and maintenance of modern communications equipment;

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