2025-0161 Interoperability Solution Development / Architecture Support

The Contractor’s personnel will support
demonstrating future Data Lake/NCDF Information Services ecosystem consisting
of Data Lake (NCDF Information Service Node), INT-CORE Data Lake Node and Lake
Diver, performing the following activities: 

• Supporting guiding the development team to
  make sure that capabilities are being developed useful to NATO Enterprise.
  
• Supporting managing stakeholders to capture
  and develop the requirements, architecture, components and vision of Data Lake,
  Lake Diver and INT-CORE.
  
• Engaging with user communities to capture
  the operational requirements.
  
• Participating in yearly exercises such as
  Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX) and/or Bold Quest as one of
  the technical leads in the month of June taking place in Poland or other
  exercise locations. 
  
• Engage with nations to develop test plan
  scenario, architecture and support the execution of the exercise as the key
  SME.
  
• Visiting operational entities across NATO
  Enterprise to conduct interviews with operators. Understand user requirements
  and translate the requirements into solutions.
  
• Producing detailed component specifications
  and transform it into detailed designs for implementation.
  
• The providing of comprehensive guidance on
  the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that
  they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards
  and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain
  compatible.
  

o    If needed, act as part the development team by
developing software code.

o    Ensure appropriate standards (including
industrial, international and NATO) are adhered.

o    Provides advice on technical aspects of system
development and integration (including supporting change management processes).

• Assist in the preparation of technical plans
  and works to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available.
  
  
• The contractor’s personnel shall support the
  NCIA on-site for up-to 30% of time in the NCIA The Hague, Netherlands premises
  during contract performance. Contractor’s personnel can provide services
  remotely for up-to 70% of the remaining time in a NATO country as per NATO
  Security Policy. The remote performance could be increased depending on status
  of the project with agreement of the line manager; in this case the competed
  price remain unchanged. 
  
  

Requirements

• Primary knowledge in and well versed in C#
  with a minimum experience of 4 years.
  
• Good knowledge in .NET Core and NET 8+
  
• Well Knowledgeable in JavaScript, Angular
  and HTML5 with at least 4 years of recent experience. 
  
• Strong knowledge of system design
  architecture, overall system to system integration in the ecosystem of high
  efficiency information exchange
  
• Knowledge of at least 3 years of experience
  with system integration, data modelling data translations, transformations and
  modelling processes 
  
• Comfortable in presenting solutions to
  working groups
  
• The contractor has strong knowledge and
  practical experience of the following (a minimum of 24 months in the last 40
  months) with: industry equivalent of Data Bricks, Apache Kafka, Sparks,
  RabbitMQ and/or similar Software and/or System Architecting in modern industry
  standards such as UML 
  
• Knowledge of modern software development
  methodologies (e.g. Software development life cycles, Agile methodologies), a
  certification in the field of agile software development and/or SCRUM is a
  plus.
  
• It is desirable that the contractor is well
  experienced with JSON, XML, XSD, will have to learn XQUERY and XPATH and/or
  XSLT rapidly,
  
• Very Desirable, but not mandatory knowledge
  in XSLT 
  
• The contractor has a flexible, cooperative
  and customer focused attitude; sets high standards for quality and quantity;
  monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic,
  methodical and orderly way;
  
• The contractor must have the nationality of
  one of the NATO nations.