Exercise Coordination & Enterprise Architecture Support

Exercise Coordination & Enterprise Architecture Support – Onsite at NATO ACT Norfolk Location :

• HQ Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT), Norfolk, VA Position Type :  Full-time, Onsite Clearance Requirement :  Active NATO or National SECRET (or higher) security clearance Role Overview Ironclad Defense Works (IDW) is seeking experienced professionals to provide dual-domain support at NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk, VA.
• This combined opportunity covers both  Exercise Coordination & Alignment  and  Enterprise Architecture & Requirements Management , ensuring NATO force development initiatives are effectively designed, tested, and integrated into the wider capability portfolio.
• Key Responsibilities Exercise Coordination Support Coordinate and align NATO exercises with force development and multi-domain operational requirements.
• Engage with stakeholders across NATO nations, commands, and centers of excellence to synchronize objectives.
• Provide planning, execution, and reporting support for large-scale exercises, workshops, and wargames.
• Capture and integrate lessons learned into NATO’s doctrine, force structure, and training frameworks.
• Facilitate collaboration across operational, technical, and policy teams to ensure exercises inform capability development.
• Senior Enterprise Architect Analyze existing enterprise architectures to identify capability gaps, overlaps, and dependencies.
• Model and design new architectures using NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) to support portfolio and capability planning.
• Support requirements elicitation, traceability, and harmonization across capability lifecycles.
• Maintain architectural repositories and ensure version / configuration control.
• Provide technical guidance to requirements managers and mentor junior staff.
• Coordinate architecture products with NATO governance bodies and contribute to change / configuration management Required Qualifications University degree in systems engineering, defense studies, international relations, or a related discipline.

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Application Instructions Apply directly through the posted job ad and link.

Candidates may also send a  cover letter  and  NATO-format forward résumé , emphasizing NATO-related experience, to :