Deadline Date: Wednesday 22 July 2026
 
Requirement: Senior System Engineer
 
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
 
Full Time On-Site: Yes
 
Time On-Site: 100%
 
Not to Exceed Rate: 99 EUR
 
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
 
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
 
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
 
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
 
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:

Current National or NATO SECRET clearance

Nationality of one of the NATO member countries

Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position

Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
 
Duties & Role:  

• Contributes to the development of domain architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Produces 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).
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation 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.
• 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.

Requirements
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 candidate's 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.