C005008 System Engineer (NS) TUE 21 Jul

Deadline Date: Tuesday 21 July 2026

Requirement: System Engineer

Location: The Hague NL

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 600

Required Start Date: 1 September 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:

• Contributes to the development of domain architectures in specific business infrastructure or functional areas.
• Contributes to the specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components tiers and interfaces for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports projects through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
• Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
• Assist in scoping requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
• Provides input to the requirements baseline.
• Investigates manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements in line with change management policy.
• Ensures that stakeholders are aware of required resources and that they are made available.
• Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources.
• Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects.

Skills Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience. As an exception the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidates particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.

The service contractor will be required to have system engineering domain and user-oriented capabilities. The following skills are considered particularly important:

• System-of-systems engineering and lifecycle management
• Requirements engineering and traceability including use of structured tooling such as DOORS or equivalent
• Technical baseline and interface management
• Integration planning and verification strategy development
• Operational domain knowledge particularly in AirC2 federated mission operations and NATO operational constructs
• Human factors usability analysis and user journey assessment

Desirable Experience and Education:

• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
• Knowledge of NATO organization internal structure and resultant relationships.

Required Experience:

IC