Requirements Manager And Architect

Requirements Manager and Architect
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POSITION OVERVIEW
This position directly supports Allied Command Transformation (ACT) which 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; improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organizations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct work to identify, scope and define NATO needs that may be satisfied with M&S, on strategic to tactical planning, functional planning (logistics, CIS, etc.), testing and visualization of new concepts, operational experimentation and war gaming events, definition of NATO capabilities including enabling the evaluation of architectures and comparison of alternative solutions and test of new NATO capabilities against its user requirements. Prepare decision support reports including briefings, operational requirements documents, user documents, and associated capability documentation.
• Provide technical advice on NATO M&S documents.
• Support the development of the Next Generation of M&S for NATO through architecture design and requirements capture, curation, and fulfilment.
• Provide technical advice on M&S related documents, activities and prototypes.
• Capture requirements during the design, execution, post-processing, and overall use of M&S in support of NATO wargaming as well as NATO collective training and exercise (CT&E) design, developing, planning, execution and AAR.
• Conduct work with NATO institutions, and allied governmental organizations when duly authorized, as well as academia and industry from NATO nations to research and identify potential M&S solutions (architecture and requirements) and align to NATO needs.
• Conduct any other duties as tasked.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Active NATO or National Secret Clearance
• University Degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level in computer science, engineering, or management and 5 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training with 8 years function related experience.
• Minimum 5 years in the last 10 in the field of M&S management to include initiation, planning, and execution of M&S projects at the capability level.
• Demonstrable 2 years' experience in the last 10 in international military environments.
• Demonstrable 5 years' experience in the last 10 in M&S programs in the defense sector. In particular, experience, designing architecture that incorporates a scope and depth to capture a wide variety of user requirements.
• Demonstrable 5 years' experience in the last 10 in M&S supporting the design, development, planning and reporting of wargames, exercises, experiments, seminars, simulations, workshops, or other similar events.
• Demonstrable 5 years' experience in the last 10 in supporting the collection and analysis of M&S user and capability requirements.
• Demonstrable experience in translating user requirements into simulation architecture that supports wargaming, exercise, training, planning, and experimentation events.
• Expert experience with PC office automation products, including the use of internet for information research. An expert in transitioning raw data (excel spreadsheet etc.) to digestible visual presentations for senior leaders (PowerPoint, figures in NATO documents) Familiarity with IBM DOORs;
• Demonstrated working level knowledge with MS Office tools (Outlook, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint).
• Availability to travel to any NATO entity within the 30 Nations (valid passport with no travel restrictions to NATO nations).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Have a working knowledge of project management techniques and demonstrated success in using them to deliver capabilities. In particular, conducting analysis and data capture to inform analysis of alternatives (AoA)
• Knowledge of SISO, MSaaS, and other international M&S standards, protocols and initiates
• Knowledge of the M&S entities within NATO e.g. HQ SACT, JWC, JFTC, M&S COE, NCIA, etc.

DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement.
DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.
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