Principal Architect

The Principal Architect will lead architecture coherency across NATO Digital Workplace enterprise and solution architecting, acting as the NDW Technical Design Authority. This senior role involves driving the transition to a modern cloud, services and data-centric security architecture, supporting NATO's Digital Transformation and delivering enterprise-level architectures and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture coherency across NATO Digital Workplace enterprise and solution architecting as the NDW Segment Architect, and act as the NDW Technical Design Authority.
• Lead NDW solution architecting in full coordination with service engineering and implementation teams, and develop and coordinate NDW technology and implementation roadmaps across the five NDW service pillars.
• Provide cyber security advice and guidance in collaboration with the Cyber Security Segment Architect – identifying risks in candidate solution architectures, supporting countermeasures, and supporting governance processes to accredit and secure Digital Workplace capabilities.
• Champion enterprise and solution architecture standards, emerging-technology adoption, requirements management and strategic stakeholder relationships across the organization.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree from a nationally recognized/certified university in a related discipline, with at least 5 years of related post-graduation experience; or a Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience.
• 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, ensuring consistency with specified requirements.
• 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.
• Proven ability to deliver Digital Workplace capabilities for an industry, government or military organization, with 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, and proven communication and briefing skills.
• Thorough knowledge of English (written and spoken) is essential; some knowledge of French is desirable.
• Desirable: prior experience in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements; knowledge of NATO’s responsibilities and organization (including NATO HQ, ACO and ACT); knowledge of Federation of Services and the application of AI and data sciences; relevant professional certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, COBIT, CCNP, or information- and data-management certifications.

Skills

• IT Services Architecture
• Systems Architecture
• Solution Architecture leadership
• Architecture Roadmaps
• UN Project Implementation
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Digital Workplace Capabilities
• End-User Devices Technologies
• Unified Communications
• Enterprise Portal Services
• Cloud Services
• Infrastructure Services
• Network Architecture
• Data-Centric Security
• Identity and Access Management
• Acquisition of Cybersecurity Services
• Technical Requirements Definition
• System Diagrams
• Architecture Moderation
• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• ITIL
• COBIT Implementation
• CCNP

Languages

English, French