Software Developer

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 –2026-0056

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality code implementing new features/user stories
• Improving existing functionality (refactoring, optimizations)
• Use version control (Git) properly and apply branching strategies in use
• Writing automated unit/integration tests
• Following coding standards and architectural patterns and ensure code meets quality gates (linting, tests, coverage thresholds)
• Participate in code reviews
• Assist QA when needed
• Prepare and support test events with users and stakeholders
• Develop, and deliver high-quality code fixing software bugs and performance issues
• Develop and maintain documentation needed for team usage
• API/interface definitions
• README / usage instructions
• Architecture notes for complex changes
• How-to and wiki documents for new technical changes, tools or packages introduced
• Participate in planning meetings, daily status update meetings, and other meetings, via electronic means using conference call capabilities, according to NCIA instructions.
• Participate in workshops, events and conferences related to the supported services, as requested by the NCIA project team.
• Provide a consolidated monthly report in the form of a completed Delivery Acceptance Sheet (DAS) (Annex B), with traceability to planned scope and annotating the deliverables produced for the projects and activities supported, signed by the individual contractor personnel.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• More than 10 years of experience as Software Developer, in which at least 5 are in C#.
• Strong experience in ASP.NET Web application development – Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum three years of experience with Angular frontend development.
• Recent experience (less than 1 year ago) in a project in which the main language is C#.
• Relevant experience with HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server, PL/SQL and database querying
• Solid understanding of async programming / multi-thread applications
• Good understanding of message exchange formats such as JSON and XML, including XML schemas.
• Experience with Git version source control.
• Experience with TOPFAS related maintenance and development.
• Very good communication skills, both spoken and written, in English.
• Very good presentation skills, taking in consideration the target audience.
• Team player, friendly and always willing to help others and to share knowledge.
• Good collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a multinational and diverse team.
• Growth mind set, always wanting to improve and to learn.
• Proactivity and taking ownership at all times.

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC
• Experience with Angular Formly library.
• Experience with Knockout
• Experience with Playwright or other test automation tools.
• Experience with DevExpress.

Education

• Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.

Working Location

• Remote

Working Policy

• Offsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance