RFQ C004663

RFQ C004663 - Interim Solution Architect – Service Design Advocacy

Brussels, Belgium | Posted on 18/02/2026

McBride, based in McLean, VA, USA, and with offices in Brussels, BEL and Bucharest; ROU through its wholly owned subsidiary McBride International, is a Prime Contractor on the NCIA Advisory and Assistance Services Plus (AAS+) Framework.We are a management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes IT transformation, project management, digital transformation, strategic planning, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, systems engineering, and operations. Due to our excellent relationship with NATO and the first-class, security cleared candidates that we source and supply from all 32 NATO nations, we are extremely privileged to ask you to review this role to assess your suitability of skills. You will be working as a contractor for our client the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)NCIA was established on 1 July 2012 from a merger of several NATO entities. It has a 65-year legacy of supporting NATO operations, missions, and exercises and is on the frontlines against cyber threats, protecting NATO's networks 24/7. NCIA provides expertise and services that are critical to NATO's ability to fulfill its core tasks of consultation, collective defence, and crisis management.

Job Description

• Provide complete infrastructure and security architecture packages, including logical and physical diagrams, trust boundaries, data flows, and responsibility mapping.
  
• Define and map security controls to approved requirements and standards. Maintain requirements traceability linking business, functional, technical, and security requirements to architectural decisions.
  
• Perform infrastructure risk assessments and threat modelling, including threats, vulnerabilities, risk ratings, impacts, and mitigations.
  
• Produce formal architecture review and decision records with rationale and approvals.
  
• Deliver stakeholder advisory outputs, review comments, and resolution records. Assess architecture compliance against standards and policies, documenting remediation or approved exceptions. Consolidate residual risks and agreed mitigations.
  
• Derive technical and security requirements from approved business and functional needs. Develop risk-prioritized security architecture artifacts aligned with business objectives and regulatory obligations.
  
• Define and consistently apply a security taxonomy and ontology.
• Establish architecture modelling standards, procedures, roles, and approvals. Configure and administer the enterprise architecture platform, including templates and viewpoints. Develop ICT and security architecture models using standard frameworks and tools.
  
• Maintain a modular, data-centric architecture repository with reusable components. Deliver analysis and assessment reports documenting assumptions, constraints, risks, and design rationale.
  
• Develop threat-driven security models demonstrating prevention, detection, and response. Conduct impact assessments for new threats, technologies, or regulations, tracking gaps for resolution.
  
• Record architecture decisions for significant deviations, including risk acceptance and compensating controls.
  
• Provide a security architecture effectiveness dashboard measuring threat coverage, control performance, risk exposure, and technical debt aligned with recognized standards.
  
• Deliver governance-compliant architecture inputs to TechnicalDesign Authority reviews.
• Produce stakeholder-tailored architecture documentation for decision-making. Ensure knowledge transfer, including user guides and training, to sustain architecture repositories and tools.
  
• Consult and coordinate with SMEs and IT teams, validating major architectural decisions with documented sign-off. Provide timely architecture reports highlighting risks, dependencies, and decision impacts.
  
• Support ICT governance aligned with international best practices.
• Coordinate with NATO HQ entities to ensure architectural coherence and alignment with NATO Enterprise and Digital Transformation initiatives.
  
• Represent CSU Brussels in governance bodies, working groups, and policy forums. Contribute to the development and standardization of policies, procedures, and guidance for information security and risk management.
  
• Evolve ICT and security architectures to reflect changing business requirements and cyber threats. Maintain architecture models, taxonomy, and repositories under approved governance.
  
• Ensure architecture data accuracy, completeness, and compliance with governance and audit standards.
  

Requirements

Essential education, experience, and trai