Senior Enterprise Architect Support to Requirement and Architecture Management Office

Job Description

McBride has an exciting opportunity to support Allied Command Transformation (ACT) which is NATO’s 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; improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organizations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

You will be responsible for the following :

• Perform analysis of existing capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes .
• Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new capabilities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.
• Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and / or regulatory requirements.
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).
• Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.
• Maintain the architectural artefacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.
• Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.
• Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.
• Organize and participate in  workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
• Collaborate with National and international military and civilian organizations, including Centers of Excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.
• Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.
• Support to other requirements management activities across the capability lifecycle.
• Support to change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.
• Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.
• Support the Branch Head CR and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 30 days per year.
• Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labor category.

Requirements

Required Qualifications :

Benefits

For U.S. residents only :

Requirements

At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) of demonstrable experience with hand-on development of business, application, and technology architectures, using professional modelling tools (e.g. Sparx, ARIS, BizzDesign), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g. Zachman, DoDAF, UAF). One or more certifications in recognised Enterprise Architecture methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, UAF or similar along with proficiency in ArchiMate notation. Demonstrable ability to present complex architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non-technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.