Senior Solution Engineer

Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium | Posted on 02/10/2026

McBride International is a European-based management consulting, IT, and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) firm. We provide professional services focusing on strategy development and execution, IT transformation, business process improvement, program management, research and development, risk management, financial management, and training. Our dedicated team of project managers, consultants, and trainers play a critical role in supporting client engagements from inception to completion. We partner with clients by providing qualified and experienced resources that possess the relevant skills, knowledge, and expertise needed to develop and execute solutions in support of their mission and business goals.

Job Description

1. System and Solution Engineering

Analyse operational, functional & project requirements & translate them into implementable DCIS solutions.

Define the overall technical solution and system architecture using the established DCIS Node, Module & Service taxonomies.

Ensure that the resulting system delivers the required end-to-end functionality & emergent behaviour.

Perform technical trade-off analyses considering performance, interoperability, security, deployability, resilience, maintainability, cost, schedule & technological maturity.

Apply MBSE throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Map project requirements against existing Requirement Models, Implementation Guidelines & Implementation Constraints.

Maximise reuse of approved Modules, Services, architectures & engineering patterns.

Identify gaps where existing Requirement Models or standardized building blocks cannot satisfy project requirements.

3. Complex Systems Product Ownership – Operational Nodes

For designated Nodes already introduced into operational service, act as the Complex Systems Product Owner:

Maintain technical ownership and system-level design responsibility for assigned operational Nodes throughout their lifecycle.

Maintain an authoritative understanding of the Node architecture, configuration, interfaces, dependencies, capabilities & design constraints.

Ensure that modifications to individual Modules or Services do not compromise the overall coherence, interoperability, performance, security or operational capability of the Node.

Assess operational technical issues from an end-to-end system perspective & coordinate their resolution with the appropriate SMEs, Model Custodians & service organizations.

Analyse requests for change, obsolescence issues, technology refreshes, security changes & evolving operational requirements to

determine their impact on the complete Node.

Define & maintain the technical evolution path & Node roadmap, aligned with Module & Service roadmaps & the wider DCIS Target Architecture.

Identify technical debt, architectural divergence, lifecycle risks & emerging obsolescence before they become operational constraints.

Initiate or recommend engineering activities required to maintain the technical viability of the Node.

Provide system-level technical guidance to operations, maintenance & service-management organizations where issues require design-level knowledge.

Ensure that operational experience & lessons identified are fed back into the Modularity Framework, Requirement Models & future system designs.

Maintain consistency between the as-designed, as-built and as-operated technical baselines of the Node.

Support configuration & change-control processes by assessing the system-level impact of proposed changes.

4. Multi-Domain Technical Integration

Integrate engineering contributions across DCIS technical domains, including as applicable:

Network & Communication Access; WAN/LAN and network services; SATCOM & tactical communications; Radio systems; Infrastructure & Platform services; compute, virtualization & cloud technologies; storage & data services; cybersecurity & security services; identity & access management; Business Support Services; automation, orchestration & Infrastructure-as-Code; physical deployable infrastructure & associated supporting systems.

5. Technical Coordination

Act as the primary technical focal point for assigned projects & operational Nodes.

Coordinate the engineering contributions required from the different technical domains.

Translate system-level requirements & operational issues into clear engineering tasks & technical questions for the appropriate SMEs & Model Custodians.

Integrate the outputs produced by the different engineering disciplines into a single coherent solution.

Identify conflicting requirements, assumptions