Solutions Architect

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       MSc degree in either Computer Science, Software & Systems Engineering, or a similar area, or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 6 years’ extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the services outlined in the SoW

·       5+ years of proved experience in enterprise/solution architecture delivery

·       4+ years of experience with the development of architectures for NATO and/or defence customers

·       Experience of using Archimate and Sparx Enterprise Architect

·       Proven experience and writing of large, structure documents

·       Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team

·       Fluent in Business English

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       The purpose of this project is to provide the NATO Intelligence Enterprise (NIE) “as-is” and “to-be” architecture and implementation roadmap. To achieve this scope, the Contractor shall:

ü  Engage with NCIA staff (Technical Subject Matter Experts, Project Managers and Enterprise/Segment Architects) to understand and document current and future system/service capabilities

ü  Develop high level overview of as-is architecture

ü  Develop the NIE as-is architecture, capturing selected current NIE, applications and system capabilities; their inter-dependencies and the technologies by which they are implemented and the standards they comply with to ensure interoperability

ü  Develop the high level NIE to-be architecture

ü  Develop the implementation roadmap that provides direction on how to transition towards the to-be architecture

ü  Advice on technological synergies, gaps and opportunities identified