Data Engineer

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 – CDT-0008

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• extracting data from input files, transforming data according to the necessary formats and loading data into the Repository platform.
• Ensuring smooth data flow into Pledge data analysis model.
• Maintaining the current data pipelines and developing new data pipelines to incorporate new sources of data.
• Work with the Repository team to understand requirements for analysis and visualization.
• Develop and optimize data models and data views that allow for analysis of all relevant aspects of the data.
• Working with the Pledge team to create an interactive portal/data model to facilitate analysis of Allied returns.
• Support the data analyst in cleaning and standardising data from external sources (Repository and Pledge).
• Identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and missing elements in the data and flagging these to the data analyst and the project manager (PM).
• Investigate potential tools for data processing, data integration and visualization that could be used in a NATO environment.
• Advising the team on technical choices by clearly communicating the options to a non-technical audience.
• Support the data analyst in producing analytical products by creating dashboards and visual analytics.
• Potentially also use large language models to extract insights from unstructured data.
• Document data pipelines, codes and data models.
• Information sharing with the team and onboarding of new team members.

 Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Strong analytical and technical skills.
• 2+ years experience working as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
• Professional experience in planning and executing the da