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Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATOs leading agent for change: driving facilitating and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships interaction and practical cooperation with partners nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development capability development training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformations Director for guidance direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO NCIA NSPA NATO HQ territorial Host Nations and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy political guidance and other policy documents supporting NATOs strategic objectives.

Role ID:ACT-CDMS-27-01-A-LC08

Role and Duties

Provide hands-on digital workflow prototyping andcitizendevelopmentsupport to digitize CAPDEV work and information flows using approved platformsand development tools outside the Microsoft Power Platform environment.

The contractor is expected to work directly with operational users to identify workflow problemsand opportunities rapidly design and personally build proof-of-concept and pilot solutions testthose solutions in operational use iterate based on evidence and user feedback and preparesuccessful solutions for transition to enterprise developmentDevSecOps platform or scalingorganizations.

This is a hands-on rapid delivery role. The requirement is not primarily for enterprise architecture strategic advisory product management programme managementsoftwaredevelopmentteam leadership or supervision of development performed by others.

Theobjectiveis to allow CAPDEV to test digitally transformed workflows quickly and atrelativelylowcost before committing resources to enduring implementation while ensuring successfulprototypes generate sufficient operational technical and requirements evidence to supportresponsible scaling.

Taskings:

1. Support CAPDEV organizations through hands-on rapid development of digital workflow proofs of concept prototypes and operational pilots using approved non-Microsoftlowcode no-code configurable-application workflow lightweight development or comparable platforms and tools.
2. Work directly with process owners operational users analysts managers and information stakeholders to understand existing work and information flows decisions handoffs datarequirements pain points and opportunities for digital transformation.
3. Document current and desired workflows at sufficient detail to identify user roles workflow states decision points information exchanges business rules data requirements and minimum functionality needed to test a redesigned process.
4. Translate operational needs intominimum viable prototype or pilot requirements that can be rapidly developed demonstrated tested and iterated with users.
5. Design configure develop test and improve digital applications and workflows that replace or materially reduce manual spreadsheet-intensive email-driven form-based document centric or otherwise fragmented CAPDEV processes
6. Configure structured data capture user roles workflow states business rules validations routing approvals notifications status tracking role-based views and other functionalityrequired to operationally test redesigned workflows.
7. Integrate prototype and pilot solutions with approved data sources or services using APIs databases web services webhooks structured file exchange or other authorizedmechanisms appropriate to the technical environment.
8. Develop lightweight scripts components application logic or integrations when configurable or low-code functionality alone is insufficient to test the operational requirement.
9. Use approved AI-assisted development capabilities where available and appropriate to accelerate prototyping code development configuration testingdocumentation or iterative solution improvement while maintaining appropriate human review and technical accountability.
10. Conduct user testing and operational pilots with representative CAPDEV users and iteratively improve solutions based on observed use stakeholder feedback technicalfindings and changes to the operational requirement.

1. Establish appropriate baselines and assess prototype or pilot effects on factors such as cycle time manual processing effort data completeness information availability workflow visibility traceability usability and user adoption.
2. Identify security data-management information-management architecture integration licensing hosting scalability and sustainment constraints sufficiently early to inform whether and how a prototype should progress toward enduring implementation.
3. Design prototypes to use authoritative information sources where practical and avoid unnecessary creation of duplicate unsupported or orphaned data stores.
4. Apply proportionate development and lifecycle practices appropriate to rapid prototyping including version or configuration control documentation of business rules and dependencies testing management of development artifacts and separation of prototype and operational environments where supported.
5. Document process requirements workflow logic data structures integrations user roles business rules configuration code or scripts assumptions known limitations test findingsand operational lessons sufficiently to support reuse assessment and transition.
6. Prepare transition packages for successful prototypes and pilots including requirements process design user stories or equivalent functional descriptions data structuresintegrations business rules test results known limitations technical dependencies and recommendations for enduring implementation.
7. Collaborate with enterprise developers DevSecOpsteams platform owners system integrators data teams cybersecurity personnel and other scaling organizations to support transition from CAPDEV prototype or pilot to enduring implementation.
8. Maintain visibility of active prototypes and pilots including purpose users status dependencies risks technical debt evidence of operational value and recommended disposition such as continue testing revise transition for scaling sustain locally or retire.
9. Present prototype and pilot findings user feedback technical constraints trade-offs implementation risks and scaling recommendations to CAPDEV leaders and stakeholders.
10. Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR that are directly related to this labor category and do not constitute a materially different labor requirement.

Essential Qualifications

1. Education or Relevant Professional Experience: A University/Bachelors degree inComputer Science Information Systems Software Engineering Engineering Human-Centered Design Business Process Management Business Information Technology or a closely related field; or a minimum of five years of directly relevant professional experience in lieu of the degree.

Directly relevant professional experience shall include work in at least two of the followingareas: low-code/no-code or configurable-application development; workflow automation;software or web application development; business-process digitization; rapid prototyping orminimum-viable-product development.

Either the degree or experience-in-lieu route fully satisfies this qualification.

1. Recent End-to-End Hands-On Digital Solution Delivery: Demonstrated recent experience personally developing digital applications workflows prototypes or pilots from identification of a user or business-process requirement through configuration or development testing user feedback and operational use or pilot activity.

The candidate shall demonstrate at least twelve calendar months within the last twenty-fourmonths during which hands-on digital application workflow or prototype developmentconstituted a substantial and recurring portion of the candidates assigned duties and at leastone personally developed digital solution used by an identified user group as part of an activebusiness process or operational pilot within the last eighteen months.

The candidate shallidentifythe month and year of qualifying experience approximate proportion of assigned duties devoted to hands-on development business process addressedpersonal technical contribution technologies or platforms used and user group.

Experience limited to directing supervising managing advising governing architectingtechnical leadership product ownership programme management coordinating or overseeingdevelopment performed by others does not satisfy this requirement. Multiple componentsdeveloped for the same user group to address the same business-process requirement shall beconsidered one example. Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used tosatisfy other Essential Qualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Non-Microsoft Low-Code No-Code or Configurable Application Development:

Minimum of two years within the last five years including hands-on development within the lasttwenty-four months personally designing configuring building testing and deployingapplications or workflows using non-Microsoft low-code no-code configurable-applicationworkflow or comparable rapid-development platforms.

The candidate shalldemonstrateat least two personally developed applications or workflowsolutions including at least one used by an identified user group as part of an active businessprocess or operational pilot within the last twenty-four months and a second qualifying examplewithin the last three years.

Across the candidates qualifying examples the candidate shalldemonstratehands-ondevelopment using at least two distinct non-Microsoft rapid-development platforms frameworksor application-development technologies. The candidateis not required todemonstrateequaldepth or duration of experience in each.

At least one qualifying solution shalldemonstratethree or more of the following characteristicswith at least one characteristic drawn from items 3 5 or 7:

1. multiple workflow states screens forms or user roles;
2. conditional or role-based behaviour;
3. structured data model or relationships between data entities;
4. custom validation business rules or workflow logic;
5. integration with more than one data source service or application;
6. automated routing approvals notifications or task coordination; or
7. reusable components scripts extensions or comparable application logic with the candidate identifying the component script or extension and describing what it performed.

For each example the candidate shallidentifythe platform or technology used businessprocess addressed personal technical contribution qualifying characteristics user group andresulting operational or pilot use and shall briefly describe how the claimed characteristics werepersonally implemented.

Applications or workflows configured or developed primarily by others basic forms or templatesor demonstration-only builds do not satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Rapid Prototyping and Minimum Viable Solution Delivery: Demonstrated hands-on experience within the last five years including at least one example within the last twenty-four months rapidly translating an identified operational or business-process requirement into a testable digital proof of concept prototype minimum viable solution or pilot.

The candidate shallidentifyat least two examples in which they personally contributed torequirements discovery and personally developed the resulting prototype or pilot.

At least one qualifying example shall have progressed frominitialrequirement or processdiscovery to a testable solution available to representative users within ninety calendar days orless.

Across the two qualifying examples at least one shalldemonstrateat least two of the qualifyingsolution characteristicsidentifiedunder Essential Qualification 3 including at least onecharacteristic from items 3 5 or 7 of that qualification. The exampledemonstratingthe requiredsolution characteristics may be the same example that satisfies the ninety-day requirement or adifferent qualifying example.

For each example the candidate shallidentifytheinitialrequirementtimeframefrom discoveryto testable solution personal contributionplatformor technologies used users involved intesting qualifying solution characteristics where applicable and resulting disposition or nextstep.

Experience involving only development against fully predetermined specifications without rapiditeration with users does not satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Business Process Discovery and Workflow Redesign: Minimum of two years within the last five years including at least one qualifying example within the last three years workingdirectly with operational users process owners managers or information stakeholders to understand existing business processes and design digitally enabled future workflows.

The candidate shall demonstrate at least two examples in which they personallyanalyzedanexisting manual spreadsheet-based email-driven document-centric or otherwise fragmentedprocess and identified user roles process steps handoffs decisions information requirementspain points and opportunities for redesign prior to development.

For each example the candidate shallidentifythe user or process-owner group existingprocess or problem findings from process discovery proposed workflow changes and resultingprototype pilot or digital solution.

Experience limited to receiving predetermined requirements without direct engagement withusers or process owners does not satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Data Integration and LightweightTechnical Development: Demonstrated hands-on experience within the last five years including at least one example within the last twenty-four months personally extending integrating or supporting digital applications or workflows using technical methods beyond basic platform configuration.

Across the candidates examples experience shall include at least two of the following:

1. REST or other APIs;
2. relational databases or SQL;
3. webhooks or web services;
4. structured data exchange between applications;
5. Python JavaScript TypeScript Java C# or another general-purpose programming or scripting language;
6. custom scripts functions extensions or components within a configurable platform with the candidate identifying the artifact and describing the logic or function personally implemented; or
7. another identified enterprise application or data-integration mechanism with the candidate naming the application or mechanism used.

At least one of the two minimum claimed technical areas must be drawn from items 1 through second claimed area must be drawn from items 1 through 6. Item 7 maydemonstrateadditionalbreadth but does not satisfy either of the two minimum technical areas.

At least one qualifying example shall use or integrate with an existing enterprise authoritativeor system-of-record data source or service owned andmaintainedby another organization orsystem rather than relying solely on a newly created standalone data store for the prototype.

The candidate shallidentifythe applications or data sources involved technical mechanismused personal contribution business or prototype requirement supported ownership or sourceof the enterprise or authoritative data where applicable and briefly describe how each claimedtechnical method was personally applied.

Experience limited solely to manually importing or exporting files configuring basic forms orusing preconfigured platform connectors withoutadditionalintegration or technical logic doesnot satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Operational Pilot User Testing and Iterative Improvement: Demonstrated hands-on experience within the last five years including at least one example within the last twenty-four months conducting user testing or operational pilot activity for a personally developed digital application workflow or prototype.

The candidate shalldemonstrateat least two examples in which representative users tested orused the candidates solution and the candidate personally collected orobservedfeedbackdefects usability issues process effects or changing requirements andsubsequentlymodifiedthe solution.

For each example the candidate shallidentifythe user group solution tested nature of thetesting or pilot activity findings or feedback received changes personally implemented andresulting disposition or improvement.

Experience limited to demonstrations without representative user interaction or developmentwithoutsubsequentiteration does not satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Lifecycle Discipline and Delivery within Constrained Environments: Demonstrated hands-on experience within the last five years including at least one example within the lasttwenty-four months personally applying lifecycle configuration testing security or sustainment practices to rapidly developed digital applications workflows prototypes or pilots.

The candidate shalldemonstratepractical experience in at least three of the following:

1. source version or configuration control;
2. separation of development test pilot or operational environments;
3. controlled deployment or promotion between environments;
4. management of application configuration credentials secrets or service accounts;
5. dependency or integration documentation;
6. structured testing defect tracking or documented issue-and-resolution management including lightweight methods appropriate to prototype or pilot activity;
7. application monitoring or logging; or
8. administrator or sustainment documentation.

The candidates qualifying experience must include item 6 and at least one of items 1 2 or 3.

The candidate shall briefly describe how each claimed area was personally applied.

The candidate shall also identify at least one example within the last twenty-four months inwhich security restrictions platform limitations licensing network constraints administrativepermissions hosting limitations unavailable services or comparable technical constraintsrequired the candidate to modify the design or implementation of a digital solution. Thecandidate shallidentifythe constraintencountered resulting design or implementationadjustment and personal contribution.

General familiarity with software-development security testing or governance concepts withoutevidence of personal application does not satisfy this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Transition to Enterprise Development or Scaling: Demonstrated experience within the last five years including at least one qualifying example within the last three years preparing apersonally developed prototype pilot application or workflow for continued development production implementation enterprise scaling or sustainment by another developer DevSecOps team platform owner system integrator or operational support organization.

The candidate shallidentifythe solution receiving individual or organization transition purposecandidates personal role and transition material provided.

The transition material shall have included at least three of the following:

1. functional requirements user stories or equivalent;
2. process or workflow design;
3. data model or data structures;
4. business rules or application logic;
5. integration or interface requirements;
6. configuration source code scripts or technical implementation material;
7. test results or known defects;
8. known limitations risks or technical debt; or
9. deployment hosting security or sustainment considerations.

Formal transfer between organizations is notrequired. Internal handover to another appropriately qualified development or support team satisfies this requirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

1. Prototype Assessment and Decision Communication: Demonstrated experience within the last five years including at least one example within the last three years evaluating andcommunicating the results of a digital prototype pilot application or workflow to managers process owners product owners or other decision makers.

The candidate shallidentifyat least two examples in which they personally communicatedfindings concerning user feedback operational value technical feasibility limitations risksimplementation considerations or recommended next steps.

For each example the candidate shallidentifythe audience solution or pilot assessed

evidence or findings communicated and resulting recommendation or decision concerningcontinuation revision scaling sustainment or retirement.

Qualifying experience may overlap in time with experience used to satisfy other EssentialQualifications where the workdemonstratesthe required competencies.

Language Proficiency

Demonstratedproficiencyin English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized LinguisticProfile (SLP) 3333 - Listening Speaking Reading and Writing) or equivalent.

Working Location

• NorfolkVA

Working Policy

• On-Site

Contract Duration

• January2027 December 2031

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATOSecretpersonal security clearance