Overview
The Principal Architect will lead architecture coherency for the NATO Digital Workplace (NDW) and act as the NDW Technical Design Authority. The role involves driving the transition to a modern cloud, services, and data-centric security architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture coherency across NDW enterprise and solution architecting.
- Act as the NDW Technical Design Authority.
- Lead NDW solution architecting in full coordination with service engineering and implementation teams.
- Develop and coordinate NDW technology and implementation roadmaps.
- Provide cyber security advice and guidance.
- Identify risks in candidate solution architectures and support countermeasures.
- Support governance processes to accredit and secure Digital Workplace capabilities.
- Champion enterprise and solution architecture standards, emerging-technology adoption, requirements management and strategic stakeholder relationships.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of related post-graduation experience with a Master's degree, or 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree.
- Extensive experience leading the creation and review of IT services, systems, architectures and roadmaps for large organizations.
- Extensive experience leading and monitoring the development of domain / segment and solution architectures.
- Extensive experience leading the implementation of ICT-specific projects for alignment with relevant architectures and roadmaps.
- Extensive experience managing strategic relationships with senior stakeholders, internal and external.
- A proven ability to deliver Digital Workplace capabilities for an industry, government or military organization.
- Up-to-date knowledge across the NDW service areas: end-user devices and client technologies, the Digital Workplace Foundation, user application services, unified communication and collaboration, enterprise portal and social networking, and content services.
- Knowledge of cloud and infrastructure services, network architecture and technologies, data-centric security, and identity, access and credentials management.
- Experience developing technical requirements, system diagrams and engineering products to support cyber security acquisition and procurement.
- Strong analytical and systems thinking.
- Ability to moderate architecture-related discussions with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proven communication and briefing skills.
Qualifications
A Master's degree from a nationally recognized/certified university in a related discipline; or a Bachelor's degree.
