Overview
The Principal Service Engineer will define and manage service engineering practices and standards, provide support to technical teams, and create technology roadmaps to align NATO and Agency plans with emerging technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and manage the definition and management of service engineering practices and standards to be applied across the NCIA and in all relevant services procured, owned or operated by the Agency;
- Provide support and guidance to technical teams in Exercises and Operations, supporting the building of reusable exercise design building blocks;
- Create technology roadmaps which align NATO and Agency plans with emerging technologies;
- Undertake impact analysis on major design options, make recommendations and assess associated implementation, life-cycle support and security risks;
- Support NCIA Technical Design Authority (TDA) and Programme TDAs in ensuring alignment with NATO Policies and Directives, Agency Directives and Standards and Enterprise Architecture;
- Provide direction and guidance to technical teams with regards to Mission CIS (MCIS);
- Ensure coherent technical design for Deployable CIS (DCIS), SATCOM, Maritime, SOF CIS and other Mission CIS related projects and Implementation programmes;
- Ensure alignment between Deployable and Static capabilities, meeting interoperability and federation requirements;
Required Experience
- 5 years post-related experience with a Master’s degree in a related discipline, or 8 years post related experience with a Bachelor’s degree.
- Extensive experience leading impact analysis on major ICT design options, assessment of associated implementation, life-cycle support and security risks.
- Extensive experience in providing support and guidance to technical teams during implementation of large ICT and/or Software projects
- Prior experience related to ICT Network and Systems Engineering Architecture within the C4ISR Domain;
- Experience with deployable network and ICT systems;
- Experience with projects dealing with large ICT implementations, especially in the military deployable area, leading large multi-disciplinary technical teams
- Sound practical knowledge and experience of service delivery and service provisioning policies, methodologies, processes and tools;
- Knowledge and experience in state-of-the-art technologies relevant to the work, such us Cloud computing and automation and orchestration capabilities.
- Knowledge and experience involving the development, management, acquisition and / or implementation of military CIS/C4ISR systems or similar complex IT systems;
- Extensive experience leading identification of new and emerging technologies, and evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities
- Extensive experience managing relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external)
Qualifications
- A Master’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a related discipline.
- A Bachelor’s degree.
