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Spektrum

Senior Enterprise Architect

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Norfolk, United states

Senior

Freelance

26-09-2025

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Skills

Configuration Management Sales Training Architecture Organization

Job Specifications

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO's leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO's strategic objectives.

Role Duties And Responsibilities

Perform analysis of existing capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes.
Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new capabilities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.
Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).
Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.
Maintain the architectural artefacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.
Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.
Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.
Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
Collaborate with National and international military and civilian organizations, including Centres of Excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.
Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.
Support to other requirements management activities across the capability lifecycle.
Support to change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.
Support the coordination of architecture related products with Managem

About the Company

Spektrum are an international sales and management consulting firm who don’t just say we’re different, we are different. We solve today's defence, humanitarian and government market problems, evolving to meet its clients' challenges. Know more