#NC26SED190035 - NCDF expert and Test Tool designer/implementer
Deadline: July 26, 2026
Requester: NATO
Location: Offsite
Job type: Contractor
Start date: August, 2026
Security clearance: NATO SECRET
SCOPE OF WORK / DUTIES / ROLES
The Contractor’s responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to:
- Implement the standards within NATO Tools;
- Editing, reviewing, and contributing to relevant sections of selected NATO standards (e.g.NCDF and CESMO) related information definition and exchange and verification and validation;
- Participating in technical and coordination meetings as required by the PM and Technical Leader;
- Maintaining and updating the development backlog, including progress reporting, comments, risk identification, and issue tracking;
- Producing agreed technical deliverables in accordance with defined acceptance criteria, quality standards, and timelines;
- Ensuring structured knowledge transfer to NCIA personnel and designated stakeholders throughout the contract execution, including preparation of technical documentation, architectural explanations, code walkthroughs, and operational guidance;
- Supporting formal knowledge handover sessions prior to contract completion to ensure continuity, maintainability, and long-term sustainability of the delivered solutions.
REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven experience in the redaction of NATO standards;
- Proven experience in the test of the ADatP-36 and the STANAG5659 standards;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, the operational or technical use of NCDF microservices supported by NCI Agency;
- Proven Knowledge of, and practical experience in, modern test engineering and test management methods and paradigms;
- Proven up-to-date knowledge of computer system architectures, systems security, client/server, LAN/WAN and network concepts, test techniques, Database Management Systems (DBMS) and data management concepts;
- Proven recent experience in planning and execution of validation activities within largescale C2 exercises;
- 2 year of programming experience in one or more of JAVA, JAVA Scripts, Angular, Python, C#;
- Recent experience with XML and JSON technologies;
- Recent experiences with the Robot Framework test engine;
- Staff provided by the Contractor must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations;
- Staff provided by the Contractor must have an excellent command of spoken and written English.
Desirable:
- Desirable Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related engineering field;
- Experience in the test of the CESMO AEDP-13 / AEDP-13.3.1 Ed. B;
- Experience working in the NATO Software Factory (NSF);
- Experience supporting a recent NATO Interoperability exercises;
- Experience interpreting and/or capturing business and user requirements through use cases and developing test cases accordingly;
- Experience working with STANAGS 4774 and 4778;
- Knowledge of NATO FFT, COT, JDSS, NCDF and other military or civilian interoperability standards for messaging and data exchange.
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