DescriptionDeadline Date: Wednesday 4 March 2026
Requirement: Interim Solution Architect Service Design Advocacy
Location: Brussels BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1500
Required Start Date: 13 April 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
The following deliverables are expected from this statement of work:
- Provide complete infrastructure and security architecture packages including logical and physical diagrams trust boundaries data flows and responsibility mapping.
- Define and map security controls to approved requirements and standards. Maintain requirements traceability linking business functional technical and security requirements to architectural decisions.
- Perform infrastructure risk assessments and threat modelling including threats vulnerabilities risk ratings impacts and mitigations.
- Produce formal architecture review and decision records with rationale and approvals.
- Deliver stakeholder advisory outputs review comments and resolution records. Assess architecture compliance against standards and policies documenting remediation or approved exceptions. Consolidate residual risks and agreed mitigations.
- Derive technical and security requirements from approved business and functional needs. Develop risk-prioritized security architecture artifacts aligned with business objectives and regulatory obligations.
- Define and consistently apply a security taxonomy and ontology.
- Establish architecture modelling standards procedures roles and approvals. Configure and administer the enterprise architecture platform including templates and viewpoints. Develop ICT and security architecture models using standard frameworks and tools.
- Maintain a modular data-centric architecture repository with reusable components. Deliver analysis and assessment reports documenting assumptions constraints risks and design rationale.
- Develop threat-driven security models demonstrating prevention detection and response. Conduct impact assessments for new threats technologies or regulations tracking gaps for resolution.
- Record architecture decisions for significant deviations including risk acceptance and compensating controls.
- Provide a security architecture effectiveness dashboard measuring threat coverage control performance risk exposure and technical debt aligned with recognized standards.
- Deliver governance-compliant architecture inputs to Technical Design Authority reviews.
- Produce stakeholder-tailored architecture documentation for decision-making. Ensure knowledge transfer including user guides and training to sustain architecture repositories and tools.
- Consult and coordinate with SMEs and IT teams validating major architectural decisions with documented sign-off. Provide timely architecture reports highlighting risks dependencies and decision impacts.
- Support ICT governance aligned with international best practices. Coordinate with NATO HQ entities to ensure architectural coherence and alignment with NATO Enterprise and Digital Transformation initiatives.
- Represent CSU Brussels in governance bodies working groups and policy forums. Contribute to the development and standardization of policies procedures and guidance for information security and risk management.
- Evolve ICT and security architectures to reflect changing business requirements and cyber threats. Maintain architecture models taxonomy and repositories under approved governance.
- Ensure architecture data accuracy completeness and compliance with governance and audit standards.
RequirementsSkill Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- University Degree and 5 years function related experience or Higher Secondary Education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience;
- Have minimum 3 years proven professional experience in projects related to construction and ICT infrastructure implementation.
- Have 3 years applied knowledge of ICT and Security Architecture models preferably based on internationally recognized frameworks within a large organisation with an accent on ICT infrastructure and security architectures.
- Have worked in an ICT services organisation that actually managed modern ICT & Security systems.
- Have a good conceptual understanding and technical knowledge of current and emerging information systems and technologies and security-related aspects including project-related organisational aspects.
- Experience and knowledge with the design and deployment of technology its impact to business operation and security posture. Experience drafting precise and concise reports on complex ICT-related technical topics.
- Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF Foundation certification).
- ITIL v4 Foundation certification.
Desirable qualifications:
- Full Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF 9 or 10 certified).
- Project management methodology certification (e.g. PRINCE2 Foundation).
- Sparx EA and ArchiMate knowledge and working experience supported by formal training is a plus.
- Have experience with Data Centre Design Infrastructure support systems network capacity planning.
- Have developed maintained and led Security Architectures to address highly classified environment including the active support of the security accreditation process.
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization including ACO and ACT.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
DescriptionDeadline Date: Wednesday 4 March 2026Requirement: Interim Solution Architect Service Design AdvocacyLocation: Brussels BEFull Time On-Site: Yes Time On-Site: 100% Total Scope of the request (hours): 1500Required Start Date: 13 April 2026End Contract Date: 31 December 2026 Required Securi...
DescriptionDeadline Date: Wednesday 4 March 2026
Requirement: Interim Solution Architect Service Design Advocacy
Location: Brussels BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1500
Required Start Date: 13 April 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
The following deliverables are expected from this statement of work:
- Provide complete infrastructure and security architecture packages including logical and physical diagrams trust boundaries data flows and responsibility mapping.
- Define and map security controls to approved requirements and standards. Maintain requirements traceability linking business functional technical and security requirements to architectural decisions.
- Perform infrastructure risk assessments and threat modelling including threats vulnerabilities risk ratings impacts and mitigations.
- Produce formal architecture review and decision records with rationale and approvals.
- Deliver stakeholder advisory outputs review comments and resolution records. Assess architecture compliance against standards and policies documenting remediation or approved exceptions. Consolidate residual risks and agreed mitigations.
- Derive technical and security requirements from approved business and functional needs. Develop risk-prioritized security architecture artifacts aligned with business objectives and regulatory obligations.
- Define and consistently apply a security taxonomy and ontology.
- Establish architecture modelling standards procedures roles and approvals. Configure and administer the enterprise architecture platform including templates and viewpoints. Develop ICT and security architecture models using standard frameworks and tools.
- Maintain a modular data-centric architecture repository with reusable components. Deliver analysis and assessment reports documenting assumptions constraints risks and design rationale.
- Develop threat-driven security models demonstrating prevention detection and response. Conduct impact assessments for new threats technologies or regulations tracking gaps for resolution.
- Record architecture decisions for significant deviations including risk acceptance and compensating controls.
- Provide a security architecture effectiveness dashboard measuring threat coverage control performance risk exposure and technical debt aligned with recognized standards.
- Deliver governance-compliant architecture inputs to Technical Design Authority reviews.
- Produce stakeholder-tailored architecture documentation for decision-making. Ensure knowledge transfer including user guides and training to sustain architecture repositories and tools.
- Consult and coordinate with SMEs and IT teams validating major architectural decisions with documented sign-off. Provide timely architecture reports highlighting risks dependencies and decision impacts.
- Support ICT governance aligned with international best practices. Coordinate with NATO HQ entities to ensure architectural coherence and alignment with NATO Enterprise and Digital Transformation initiatives.
- Represent CSU Brussels in governance bodies working groups and policy forums. Contribute to the development and standardization of policies procedures and guidance for information security and risk management.
- Evolve ICT and security architectures to reflect changing business requirements and cyber threats. Maintain architecture models taxonomy and repositories under approved governance.
- Ensure architecture data accuracy completeness and compliance with governance and audit standards.
RequirementsSkill Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- University Degree and 5 years function related experience or Higher Secondary Education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience;
- Have minimum 3 years proven professional experience in projects related to construction and ICT infrastructure implementation.
- Have 3 years applied knowledge of ICT and Security Architecture models preferably based on internationally recognized frameworks within a large organisation with an accent on ICT infrastructure and security architectures.
- Have worked in an ICT services organisation that actually managed modern ICT & Security systems.
- Have a good conceptual understanding and technical knowledge of current and emerging information systems and technologies and security-related aspects including project-related organisational aspects.
- Experience and knowledge with the design and deployment of technology its impact to business operation and security posture. Experience drafting precise and concise reports on complex ICT-related technical topics.
- Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF Foundation certification).
- ITIL v4 Foundation certification.
Desirable qualifications:
- Full Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g. TOGAF 9 or 10 certified).
- Project management methodology certification (e.g. PRINCE2 Foundation).
- Sparx EA and ArchiMate knowledge and working experience supported by formal training is a plus.
- Have experience with Data Centre Design Infrastructure support systems network capacity planning.
- Have developed maintained and led Security Architectures to address highly classified environment including the active support of the security accreditation process.
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization including ACO and ACT.
Required Experience:
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