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.

Who we are supporting 

The 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.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The 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.

To 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.

Role ID – NATOIS-0047

Role Background

The Cyber Threat Analysis Branch (CTAB), part of NATO's Joint Intelligence and Security Division (JISD), provides evidence-based cyber threat intelligence to support strategic decision-making across the Alliance. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the branch leverages advanced data science and artificial intelligence techniques to analyze large volumes of cyber threat data, identify emerging trends, and deliver actionable intelligence that strengthens NATO's cyber defence, mission assurance, and understanding of the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Under the guidance and supervision of the NATO IS Procurement Service, be responsible for the execution of the tasks and for the delivery of the specialist products specified in this Statement of Work (SoW).
• Conduct data science projects to support NATO's cyber threat intelligence production.
• Enhance threat intelligence capabilities by developing AI-driven solutions and implementing data science practices for processing, enriching, and analyzing large volumes of threat intelligence data.
• Iterate and collect feedback on prototyped applications from a variety of stakeholders to deliver production-grade applications that push CTAB's intelligence production capabilities further.
• Participate in team and branch calls where required by the Team Lead to give status updates on projects and developments pertinent to the Contractor's tasks.
• Stay up-to-date on developments within data science generally and artificial intelligence specifically that are relevant to the Contractor's projects and to the broader Branch and Unit. Function as a subject matter expert for questions from the CTAB team on data science and artificial intelligence.
• Produce the deliverables specified under the task order management under the supervision of the NATO Project Manager.
• Submit deliverables to the NATO Project Manager for quality review, test or inspection no later than the dates specified by the NATO Project Manager.
• Continuously validate deliverables with the NATO Project Manager and peers within CTAB.
• Hold periodic sessions with the NATO Project Manager to ensure that deliverables are aligned with NATO's expectations.
• Ensure that all products comply with the quality criteria established by the NATO Project Manager.
• Implement an appropriate quality control process to ensure that products submitted for quality review, inspection or acceptance are of acceptable quality.
• Correct any material deficiencies, significant omissions or gross mistakes identified during the quality review process and resubmit the products following a thorough quality control process.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• A university degree from a nationally recognised/certified university in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) with substantial data science and artificial intelligence content and 2 years of specific experience, OR at least 4 years' experience similar to the tasks described in this Jb and relevant industry recognized certificates.
• Knowledge of and experience in developing, prototyping and deploying production-grade generative artificial intelligence (genAI) applications, including evaluation and optimization.
• Experience in applying advanced analytics to a variety of business or academic situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data, as well as an understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and able to translate this into organizational implications.
• Able to program in Python, especially with AI-centric libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain and Hugging Face as well as common data science tools such as pandas and scikit-learn. You love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively (a software development background or experience in DevOps and experience in cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS is strongly preferred).
• Experience within cybersecurity and/or the intelligence domain is strongly preferred but not required for this role.
• Good communication skills, both orally and written. Able to translate complex technical topics into information conveyable to non-domain experts. Can easily cooperate with non-data scientists and explain conducted work, as well as give and take feedback.

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• Hybrid (50% on site/50% off-site in Belgium)

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance