Senior Enterprise Architect

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

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform analysis of existing NATO Infrastructure capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise, capability and solution level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes. (Examples of Infrastructure (Air Basing, Maritime Facilities, Land Facilities, Ammunition Facilities, Fuel Facilities and Pipelines, NATO Command Structure Buildings).
• Facilitate singular view of Infrastructure ontology in accordance with NATO Architecture Framework (NAF). [A logical macro depiction of Infrastructure capabilities in which program directors can drill down to lowest levels to ensure there are no duplications or deficiencies in capabilities and ensure maximum integration and operational effects of infrastructure capabilities to support the Regional Plans] Critical requirement to integrate the operational plans and multiple infrastructure programs with a logical depiction, to be able to create logical project structures.
• Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new and enhanced capabilities, down to infrastructure solution level, to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.
• Produce relevant NAF perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.
• Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).
• Support P3M planning activities to ensu