Spektrum
Business Intelligence Analyst
SpektrumBelgium1 day ago
Full-timeResearch, Analyst +1
Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

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 – 2025-0380

Role Duties And Responsibilities

  • Business requirements gathering for Asset Management data domains and related reporting needs.
  • Translating business requirements into clear, complete functional specifications, including:
  • Data definitions and business rules
  • Source-to-target mappings
  • Data quality and validation rules
  • Acting as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and technical teams for assigned initiatives.
  • Work closely with data engineers, ETL developers, and BI developers to:
  • Clarifying requirements and resolving functional questions during implementation
  • Ensuring solutions align with business intent and enterprise data standards
  • Support validation and testing activities, including:
  • Reviewing data loads and transformations
  • Coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT)
  • Verifying reporting outputs against business expectations
  • Supporting planning and coordination of work across multiple initiatives, including:
  • Coordination of dependencies between teams and data sources
  • Support prioritization of requirements
  • Tracking progress and communicating status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Driving assigned initiatives to completion by proactively managing open items, decisions, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Collaborating closely with business users and project sponsors to collect inputs, clarifying objectives, and refining incomplete or evolving requirements;
  • Managing alignment sessions to review clarified requirements and specifications with stakeholders;
  • Ensuring that stakeholder perspectives are captured and transformed into actionable BI deliverables;
  • Formal agreement and sign-off will be sought to confirm readiness for development.
  • Supporting tracking of deliverables through JIRA by updating and maintaining JIRA tickets with structured requirements, ensuring the backlog is clear, organized, and current. This also includes coordinating with the development team to track progress, changes and testing results;
  • Ensuring visibility of progress and timely identification of risks;
  • Ensuring transparency of work throughout execution.
  • The contractor will be part of the project management and implementation team, working closely with the Analytics and Core Business Application team, ensuring the secure, available, managed and compliant delivery of Power BI services to NCIA, NATO and its Strategic Commands.

Essential Skills, Experience And Certifications

  • 5 years+ Proven experience as a Business Analyst in enterprise IT, data and BI analytics environments.
  • 3+ years of experience supporting end-to-end delivery of data or reporting initiatives, from requirements through validation and user acceptance testing.
  • Demonstrated experience performing Product Owner–like activities, such as backlog management, coordination of work, and status communication.
  • Extensive knowledge of the business processes in the area of Asset Management.
  • Experience working with enterprise source systems (e.g., Oracle EBS, or similar ERP, Asset Management, Service Management systems) is required.
  • Strong experience working closely with technical delivery teams (data engineers, ETL developers, BI developers).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Working knowledge of JIRA (basic).
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills, particularly in requirements gathering and documentation.
  • Strong organizational skills.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Desirable Skills, Experience And Certifications

  • Experience working in institutional or public sector environments with formal governance structures.
  • Experience in data and reporting projects in Asset Management area.
  • Understanding of BI project lifecycles: from requirements to delivery to UAT.
  • Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices in a BI or analytics context.
  • Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.
  • A thorough knowledge of one of the two NATO languages, both written and spoken, is essential and some knowledge of the other is desirable.

Language Proficiency

  • Full proficiency in the English language.

Working Location

  • Braine L’Alleud, Belgium

Working Policy

  • (40% Onsite, 60% Off-site)

Travel

  • Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

  • Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.

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