Requirements Manager

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Who We Are Supporting

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.
  
  

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2025-124

Role Background

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development and support of new and existing capabilities for NATO.

The framework that governs the delivery of new common funded capabilities, known as the Common Funded Capability Delivery Governance Model (CFCDGM), requires a coordinated effort between the different actors through the whole capability delivery lifecycle.

The Common Funded Capability Delivery process starts with an Operational Requirements Statement issued by ACO (Allied Command Operations), translated in the next stage into Capability Requirements by ACT (Allied Command Transformation), which define the new capability addressing the identified operational need.

ACT is responsible for creating the Capability Programme Plan (CPP) that breaks down the programme into multiple projects, allocating a number of Capability Requirements to each project. The NCIA is then appointed as Implementation Entity for some of these projects, with the mandate to implement the solutions (systems/services) that address the Capability Requirements allocated to them. As part of the capability implementation stage, the NCIA translates the Capability Requirements into Solution Requirements at project level, specifying the scope to be delivered by the project and showing traceability to their parent Capability Requirements.

The NCIA is looking for support to develop and align the CFCDGM requirements lifecycle management process, contributing to improve quality and traceability for common funded capability delivery through process alignment and information exchange of capability requirements information between ACT requirements repository and NCIA requirements management tools, using ReqIF or other means of data transfer between ACT: IBM ELM V7.0.2 or more updated version, and NCIA IBM DOORS v9.7.

Role Duties And Responsibilities

• Document first version of common data dictionary and repository configurations for ACT/NCIA requirements information repositories.
• Elaborate and document detailed procedures to align data dictionaries and repository configurations between ACT and NCIA requirements repositories.
• Define common requirements engineering terminology to be used by the different actors part of the NATO common funded capability delivery requirements engineering processes.
• Elaborate and document detailed technical procedures for requirements data exchange between ACT and NCIA requirements repositories, including exchange of requirements, attributes, and traceability links
• Evaluate ACT and NCIA requirements quality standards and propose actions to align both quality standards.
• Define a common NATO process for requirements management across the different capability delivery stages, including Regulatory Requirements.
• Compare as-is systems and processes situation with Information Management for Capability Delivery (IMCD) CPP requirements to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Complete alignment of data dictionaries and repository configurations between ACT and NCIA requirements repositories.
• Create plan that includes:
• Data alignment (export/import) of legacy Capability requirements data packages.
• Common process for Regulatory Requirements management
• Common requirements QA processes
  

Essential Skills, Experience And Certifications

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• At least 1 year of experience working with IBM DOORS (classic) and IBM DOORS Next Generation requirements management tools.
• Knowledge and at least 3 years of experience applying international standards and best requirements engineering practices, such as: ISO 29148, ISO 25010 and IREB standard.
• At least 3 years of experience in requirements elicitation, requirements formal documentation and management.
• At least 3 years of experience establishing, managing and analysing traceability relationships between different requirements levels.
• Knowledge and at least 3 years of experience in process modelling and documentation.
  
  

Desirable Skills, Experience And Certifications

• IREB CPRE-FL (Certified Professional on Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level) certificate.
• Knowledge of the NATO command structure (ACT and ACO) and the new governance model for Common Funded Capability Delivery (CFCDGM).
• Knowledge and experience working with Archimate standard language.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related Engineering fields
  
  

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands
  
  

Working Policy

• On-Site
  
  

Travel

• May be required to travel once every year to ACT-Norfolk, United States.
• Travel to other NATO and commercial sites may also be required in order to complete the activities
  
  

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
  
  

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