Data Engineer

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

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 – 2026-0095

Role Background

The NATO Information and Communication Agency (NCIA) located in The Hague, Netherlands, is currently involved in processing vast amounts and highly variant data coming from theatre for the purpose of efficient archiving. In light of these activities, within NCIA Chief Technology Office, the Exploiting Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (EDS&AI) team is tasked to apply Big Data and AI technology to prepare, run and adjust processing pipelines for processing various source data into archiving formats and metadata, and prepare for (semantic) search. NATO has an obligation to support national investigations into situation that occurred in theatre. In order to support the different teams involved most optimal, the EDS&AI team brings the expertise to extract and exploit the vast and varied data on the table, by using the Agency's high performance computing classified sandbox. The EDS&AI team provides the core data science skills and technology needed for big data analysis and AI. The EDS&AI team applies innovative technology to data whenever it is not possible to extract value with conventional approaches.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Setting up / improving pipelines to process all requir