{"id":1995679,"url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer","title":"Senior Solution Engineer","company":{"id":183673,"name":"Spektrum Group","domain":"spektrum-group.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/spektrum-group","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":164,"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Leeds, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":72000,"max_usd":165000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1358},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-07T08:42:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-10T22:26:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"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.\nWho we are supporting \nThe 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.\nThe NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:\nCyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.\nCommand and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.\nSatellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.\nElectronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.\nInformation Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.\nOverall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.\nThe program\nAssistance and Advisory Service (AAS)\nThe 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.\nTo 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.\nRole ID -C005490\nRole Duties and Responsibilities\nSystem and Solution Engineering\nAnalyse operational, functional & project requirements & translate them into implementable DCIS solutions.\nDefine the overall technical solution and system architecture using the established DCIS Node, Module & Service taxonomies.\nEnsure that the resulting system delivers the required end-to-end functionality & emergent behaviour.\nPerform technical trade-off analyses considering performance, interoperability, security, deployability, resilience, maintainability, cost, schedule & technological maturity.\nModel Based Systems Engineering\nApply MBSE throughout the engineering lifecycle.\nMap project requirements against existing Requirement Models, Implementation Guidelines & Implementation Constraints.\nMaximise reuse of approved Modules, Services, architectures & engineering patterns.\nIdentify gaps where existing Requirement Models or standardized building blocks cannot satisfy project requirements.\nComplex Systems Product Ownership - Operational Nodes\nFor designated Nodes already introduced into operational service, act as the Complex Systems Product Owner:\nMaintain technical ownership and system-level design responsibility for assigned operational Nodes throughout their lifecycle.\nMaintain an authoritative understanding of the Node architecture, configuration, interfaces, dependencies, capabilities & design constraints.\nEnsure that modifications to individual Modules or Services do not compromise the overall coherence, interoperability, performance, security or operational capability of the Node.\nAssess operational technical issues from an end-to-end system perspective & coordinate their resolution with the appropriate SMEs, Model Custodians & service organizations.\nAnalyse requests for change, obsolescence issues, technology refreshes, security changes & evolving operational requirements to determine their impact on the complete Node.\nDefine & maintain the technical evolution path & Node roadmap, aligned with Module & Service roadmaps & the wider DCIS Target Architecture.\nIdentify technical debt, architectural divergence, lifecycle risks & emerging obsolescence before they become operational constraints Initiate or recommend engineering activities required to maintain the technical viability of the Node.\nProvide system-level technical guidance to operations, maintenance & service-management organizations where issues require design-level knowledge.\nEnsure that operational experience & lessons identified are fed back into the Modularity Framework, Requirement Models & future system designs.\nMaintain consistency between the as-designed, as-built and asoperated technical baselines of the Node.\nSupport configuration & change-control processes by assessing the system-level impact of proposed changes.\nMulti-Domain Technical Integration\nIntegrate engineering contributions across DCIS technical domains, including as applicable:\nNetwork & Communication Access; WAN/LAN and network services; SATCOM & tactical communications; Radio systems; Infrastructure & Platform services; compute, virtualization & cloud technologies; storage & data services; cybersecurity & security services; identity & access management; Business Support Services; automation, orchestration & Infrastructure-as-Code; physical deployable infrastructure & associated supporting systems.\nTechnical Coordination\nAct as the primary technical focal point for assigned projects & operational Nodes.\nCoordinate the engineering contributions required from the different technical domains.\nTranslate system-level requirements & operational issues into clear engineering tasks & technical questions for the appropriate SMEs & Model Custodians.\nIntegrate the outputs produced by the different engineering disciplines into a single coherent solution.\nIdentify conflicting requirements, assumptions or design decisions & drive their technical resolution.\nEssential Skills, Experience and Certifications\n10 years of relevant professional engineering experience, including significant experience with complex ICT/CIS, defence, aerospace, telecommunications or other highly integrated technical systems.\nExperience in Systems Engineering and/or Solution Architecture applied to complex systems.\nComplex Systems Engineering\nSignificant experience in the architecture, design, integration, verification or lifecycle management of complex systems involving multiple technical domains.\nDemonstrated ability to translate operational or business needs into system requirements, architectures and implementable technical solutions.\nExperience defining and managing system boundaries; functional decomposition; interfaces; dependencies; constraints; nonfunctional requirements; system-level performance\nTechnical Leadership\nExperience as a Technical Lead, Lead Systems Engineer, Solution Architect, System Architect or equivalent senior engineering role.\nExperience technically coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and SMEs\nAbility to provide clear technical direction\nExperience resolving technical disagreements and driving engineering decisions across organizational and technical boundaries.\nSystem Integration\nSignificant experience integrating systems composed of multiple technologies, products or engineering disciplines.\nStrong understanding of system interfaces, dependencies and emergent behaviour.\nExperience identifying and resolving integration problems spanning multiple technical domains.\nExperience planning or supporting system integration, verification, validation and acceptance activities.\nDemonstrated ability to perform structured root-cause analysis\nLifecycle Engineering / Product Ownership\nExperience supporting complex systems after their transition into operational service.\nUnderstanding of the relationship between:design authority; configuration management; change management; obsolescence; technology refresh; technical debt; operational support; system evolution.\n\nExperience assessing the system-level impact of changes to individual components, subsystems or services.\nBroad technical understanding across ICT/CIS domains, rather than being specialists exclusively within one technology. Strong knowledge of several of the following areas is expected:IP networking and routing; LAN/WAN architectures; network security and firewalls; compute and server infrastructure; virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure; storage technologies; identity and access management; cybersecurity architectures; enterprise and infrastructure services; cloud and hybrid-cloud technologies; automation and orchestration; monitoring and management systems; telecommunications; SATCOM and/or radio communications; deployable or mobile ICT infrastructure.\n\nThe candidate is not expected to be the SME in all these domains. However, they must have sufficient technical breadth to understand how these technologies interact.\nStrong understanding of requirements engineering, including functional and non-functional requirements.\nAbility to decompose complex systems into manageable subsystems and components while preserving understanding of the complete system.\nStrong understanding of interfaces and Interface Control.\nExperience with requirements traceability from operational need through implementation and verification.\nUnderstanding of architecture versus detailed design & the appropriate allocation of responsibilities between system-level & domain engineers.\nExperience performing engineering trade-off analyses\nEducation\nUniversity degree in Systems Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant discipline\nWorking Location\nBraine-l’Alleud, Belgium\nWorking Policy\nOn-site\nTravel\nPossible travel to other Agency & NATO sites within Belgium up to 1 - 2 times per month\nSecurity Clearance\nValid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance","description_format":"text","description_chars":10434,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-07T08:45:54Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":164,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/spektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T01:15:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1817,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3183,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":183673},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=183673"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/spektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fspektrum-group-senior-solution-engineer"}]}