Senior Solution Engineer

Senior Solution Engineer — NATO DCIS
Reference: C005487
Location: Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium — full-time on-site
Security clearance: NATO Secret required

We are seeking a Senior Solution Engineer to design, integrate and support complex Deployable Communication and Information Systems (DCIS).

Key duties

• Translate operational and project requirements into system architectures and implementable technical solutions.

• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), reusing approved architectures, modules and services.

• Take technical ownership of assigned operational systems, maintaining architectural coherence, configuration baselines and lifecycle roadmaps.

• Assess system-wide impacts of changes, security updates, technology refreshes and obsolescence.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineers and subject-matter experts, resolve technical conflicts and integrate their contributions.

• Support integration, verification, validation, acceptance and resolution of complex operational issues.

• Perform technical trade-off analyses covering performance, security, interoperability, resilience, cost and schedule.

Essential requirements

• Relevant university degree in engineering, computer science or a related discipline.

• At least 10 years of relevant engineering experience with complex, integrated technical systems.

• Proven experience in systems engineering, solution architecture or an equivalent senior technical role.

• Experience leading technical coordination across multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong understanding of requirements engineering, system decomposition, interfaces, traceability and engineering trade-offs.

• Experience with operational lifecycle support, configuration and change management, and system-level impact assessment.

• Broad knowledge across several ICT/CIS domains, such as networking, cybersecurity, compute, virtualization, storage, cloud, identity management, automation or telecommunications.

• Professional working English, including producing and reviewing complex technical documentation.

Working conditions

Normal office environment, with possible travel to other Agency and NATO sites within Belgium once or twice per month.