Contractor Support to Analytics Specialist- Capability Lifecycle

Contractor Support to Analytics Specialist- Capability Lifecycle (Engineering)


DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.


POSITION OVERVIEW


This position provides specialized contractor support to the Capability Development Directorate at Headquarters Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT), with a focus on analytics and engineering for the capability lifecycle. Working under the Deputy Chief of Staff Capability Development (DCOS CAPDEV), the role supports NATO's mission to identify, prioritize, and manage Alliance capability development across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons. The contractor will assist the CAPDEV Data and Analytics Office (DAO) in managing data and platform operations for capability lifecycle, requirements, and P3M (Portfolio, Program, and Project Management) data. Key responsibilities include delivering advanced analytics services, enabling self-service analytics for decision-makers, and contributing to improved planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting processes. This position is instrumental in supporting NATO's strategic objectives by applying data-driven insights to enhance interoperability, deployability, and sustainability of Alliance forces through coherent, through-life capability development.


JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Requirements Analytics and Engineering Insight: Design, develop, and maintain analytic products that provide visibility into requirements definition, maturity, completeness, and alignment across the capability lifecycle.


• Requirements Capture and Decomposition Support: Support the analysis, decomposition, and structuring of complex system and capability requirements to enable effective analytics, traceability, and decision support.


• Requirements Traceability and Linkage Analysis: Develop analytics and reports that assess traceability between requirements, architectures, capabilities, verification artifacts, and delivery outcomes across engineering repositories.


• Engineering Data Integration and Interoperability: Integrate requirements and engineering data from multiple authoritative sources to enable unified analysis, reporting, and cross­domain insight.


• Configuration and Change Management Analytics: Support configuration management and change control activities by developing analytics that track requirement baselines, version history, change impacts, and configuration status.


• Engineering Performance Metrics: Define, calculate, and maintain metrics that


• measure requirements quality, engineering progress, technical risk, and delivery readiness.


• Business Intelligence Development (Engineering Focus): Develop, customize,


• and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate engineering status, risks, and trends to technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Cross-System Engineering Reporting: Integrate and correlate engineering data with programmatic, schedule, and risk data to support holistic capability lifecycle analysis.


• Data Quality and Validation: Perform validation, consistency checks, and quality assurance activities on engineering and requirements data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analytic outputs.


• Decision Support for Engineering Reviews: Produce analytic products that support requirements reviews, design trade-off analyses, technical governance forums, and capability assurance activities.


• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, program managers, and international stakeholders to capture analytic requirements and translate them into actionable engineering-focused analytics.


• Process Improvement and Automation: Identify opportunities to streamline and automate engineering analytics, reporting, and data preparation workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.


• Tool and Workflow Support: Support the configuration and effective use of analytics tools and engineering workflows to ensure adoption and consistent use across stakeholders.


• Documentation: Develop and maintain documentation describing analytic logic, data sources, assumptions, and limitations for engineering-focused analytics and reports.


• User Training and Knowledge Transfer: Deliver training sessions, user guides, and ad hoc support to ensure effective adoption and interpretation of engineering analytics products.


• Capability Lifecycle Engineering Support: Apply analytics expertise to support requirements based planning, capability development, verification, validation, and delivery assurance activities.


• Technical Support: Provide ongoing analytic support and troubleshooting for engineering focused analytics, reports, and dashboards.


• Additional Tasks: Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to this labor category.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of progressive professional experience in requirements engineering systems analysis, engineering analytics, or related disciplines supporting complex technical systems within defense, security, or similarly regulated environments.


• Demonstrated expertise in requirements lifecycle management, including requirements capture, decomposition, traceability, validation, and verification across the capability lifecycle using enterprise requirements or lifecycle management tools.


• Demonstrated experience developing analytics, metrics, and visualizations that provide insight into requirements status, maturity, risk, and alignment to support engineering decision­making and technical governance.


• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.


• Demonstrated experience integrating engineering and requirements data from multiple authoritative sources to support cross-system analysis, traceability, and reporting in enterprise environments.


• Demonstrated experience supporting configuration management and change control activities, including baselining, version control, impact analysis, and compliance with organizational, NATO, or DoD standards.


• Demonstrated experience supporting full systems or software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities, including requirements analysis, system design, testing, verification, and deployment.


• Demonstrated proficiency in data analysis and reporting, including use of business intelligence or analytics tools to translate engineering data into actionable insight for technical and non­technical stakeholders.


• Demonstrated professional experience operating within secure or classified environments, including adherence to security classification handling, data protection, and access control requirements.


• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary and international teams, including engineers, architects, program managers, and stakeholders, to translate engineering data into decision-support products.


• Demonstrated minimum NATO or National SECRET clearance with the appropriate national authority for the du ration of the contract.


• Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized Linguistic Profile (SLP) 3333 - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) or equivalent.


• Demonstrable proficiency in effective oral and written communication, including briefing and coordinating with business stakeholders.

DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace.


Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations.


DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.


AAP/EEO STATEMENT


DEFTEC Corp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any typebased on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeedingand medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding),gender, gender identity, and gender expression, religious creed,disability (mental and physical) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics ), genetic information, age, marital status, civil union status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, denial of family and medical care leave, arrest record and/or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state or local law.


This policy applies to all terms of employment, includingrecruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment.


OTHER DUTIES


Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.