Deadline Date: Friday 16 May 2025
Requirement: Service Engineer (Early Engagement)
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 30 June 2025
End Contract Date: 31 December 2025
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
Requirements Definition and Management
* Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
* Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
* Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
* Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
Systems Development Management
* Plans and drives systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans.
* Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques.
* 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.
* Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
* Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.
Systems Integration and Build
* Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
* Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
* Defines complex/new integration builds.
* Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
* Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
* Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
* Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
Additional Duties for this Post:
Under the direction of the Executive Officer, but largely on own initiative, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:
* Collaborate with, and facilitate internal and external communication to fully document business needs and indicate solutions if required.
* Support the creation of requirements that meet the strategic needs of the business.
* Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, supporting the analysis and problem resolution.
* Support coherence, standardization effort, assure quality of products and alignment across the systems in the use of the optimal technologies, leading to faster implementation and reduced cost of maintenance.
* Contribute to the early Solution Architecting team activities related to customer support to upcoming requirements.
* Act as the interface to the CTO Early Engagement to allow the smooth transition of customer requirements to the NIMSC Project teams.
* Maintain active link NIMSC customers.
* Promote and enforce outsourcing of commodity services.
* Promote transition from assets to services.
* Deputize for higher grade staff, if required.
* Perform other duties as may be required.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
* The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
* A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
* Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
* Experience with drafting ICT design and/or software development and planning of system and software delivery for large C4ISR projects
* Experience in identifying and assessing new and emerging technologies and their adoption into larger systems
* Experience in developing technology roadmaps taking into account emerging technology solutions.
* Experience managing relationships with technical stakeholders (internal and external)
* Proven ability to apply analytical and systems thinking to complex problems.
* Proven ability to moderate technical design related discussions with multi-disciplinary teams.
* Proven experience with presenting complex technical concepts to a diverse audience and at times non-technical audience.
Education, Experience and Training (Desirable):
* Proven ability in process analysis, and design techniques, including needs assessment, specification development, planning and gap analysis
* Knowledge in The Open Group TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, COBIT, CISSP, or equivalent
* Knowledge and experience with Military C4ISR systems requirement capture, analysis and specifications