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# Senior Enterprise Architect for NATO with security clearance

- **Company:** WLG
- **Location:** Brussel, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, Operational Data Store, C4ISR, SC Clearance, Devsecops
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5803682334

## About the Role

* 5+ years in NATO IT or a NATO agency; proven grasp of NATO structures, working groups and military operations
 * Expert information architecture and systems engineering, plus C4ISR policies and directives (5+ years)
 * 4+ years in business analysis, architecture taxonomies and governance reporting
 * Strong stakeholder engagement across analysts and decision-makers
 * Hands-on with cloud, AI, cybersecurity, networks and DevSecOps
 * Solid data analysis; confident reporting in English
 * A degree in data science, engineering, information systems or business administration (or equivalent experience)
 * Nationality of a NATO nation
 * An active NATO Secret clearance (must already be in place to apply)

## Description

NATO's technology agency runs a vast Programme of Work - dozens of projects modernising the Alliance's digital backbone. It needs a senior architect at the portfolio level to keep that programme coherent: making sure every project aligns with NATO's technology strategy, traces cleanly to its capability roadmaps, and doesn't overlap or collide with what's already being built.

This is architecture with a governance lens. You'll review incoming project gate documents, weigh their technical requirements against NATO's strategies and design-authority guidance, surface overlaps, gaps and dependencies, and turn your findings into the dashboards and decision-support the portfolio leadership relies on. You won't own the decisions - you'll make sure the people who do have sharp, well-structured analysis in front of them.
What you'll do

 * Review project gate documents and assess coherence with NATO's technology strategies, initiatives and capability roadmaps
 * Trace projects to the underlying capability work; flag overlaps, duplication and dependencies
 * Check project scope against the CTO Technology Strategy and Technical Design Authority guidance
 * Turn operational data into structured analytical views, dashboards and governance reports
 * Consolidate findings with architecture, engineering and portfolio stakeholders
 * Keep everything documented, version-controlled and traceable


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