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Principal Solution Engineer - AirC2 System Products

NATOThe Hague, Netherlands
Category | Grade:Professional | G-20Deadline:31 Aug 2026Job ID:261299Synced on:1 Aug 2026
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Overview

Provides senior engineering leadership for NATO's integrated air command-and-control products, supporting mission-critical systems used for continuous air-defence operations. The role shapes solution architecture, requirements, networks and technical delivery while leading engineers across the system lifecycle.

Department: NATO Communications and Information Agency

Languages

Required: English

Minimum Experience

5 years

Salary

EUR 10,628.93 / monthly

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineers delivering and maintaining integrated AirC2 system products
  • Define solution architecture and manage system and software requirements
  • Direct development, integration, deployment and maintenance of mission-critical systems
  • Design and oversee networks, operating environments and deployment infrastructure
  • Manage technical sourcing and contract-delivery activities
  • Ensure system coherence, interoperability and lifecycle support across NATO and national environments
  • Guide engineering methods, metrics, tools, data management and technical decision-making

Requirements

  • Master's degree in a related discipline with at least five years of post-related experience, or a bachelor's degree with at least eight years
  • Experience leading and managing engineering teams
  • Recent experience managing system or software engineering for large mission-critical software-intensive systems
  • Knowledge of system and software architectures, operating systems, deployment infrastructure and networks
  • Knowledge of engineering methods, metrics and tools, development, maintenance, integration and deployment
  • Knowledge of database-management systems and data-management concepts

Skills

Solution and system architectureMission-critical software engineering managementRequirements definition and managementNetwork and deployment-infrastructure designTechnical contract and sourcing managementEngineering team leadershipDatabase and data-management concepts

Tools

Operating systemsDatabase management systemsSystems engineering toolsSoftware engineering tools

Additional info

Not available