Interoperability Requirements Manager — Federated Programmes and Test Data for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it — not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

A multinational defence organisation runs a standing programme to make the systems of its member nations work together. This role sits at the requirements end of that work: drawing out what is needed, writing it down so engineers can build against it, and keeping the test evidence complete enough to report on.

What you would be doing

• Supporting federated interoperability across the whole capability lifecycle.
• Drawing out and recording interoperability requirements across every dimension of a capability, not just the technical one.
• Contributing to the policies, directives and concepts that govern how interoperability is done.
• Watching the quality, completeness and consistency of test data in the designated tools, and closing the gaps you find rather than reporting them.
• Running structured communication with the communities of interest and preparing participants for interoperability events.
• Giving participants timely, usable guidance on the processes, the tools and the events.
• Supporting the analysis of the data collected, and producing the reports and briefings that come out of it.
• Administering role-based access to the interoperability test tooling.
• Travelling to meetings and conferences up to about thirty days a year.

What you would bring

• A four-year university degree or higher from a recognised institution.
• At least five of the last ten years working in multinational collaboration and coordination, ideally in an alliance or comparable multinational setting.
• At least three of the last ten years supporting interoperability initiatives, campaigns or exercises across several stakeholders and nations.
• At least three of the last ten years managing and delivering interoperability requirements, including governance, data collection and reporting.
• At least three of the last ten years planning and running events, workshops, conferences and exercises.
• Writing that holds up as a record: meeting notes, action lists, reports, briefings.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.