For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.
Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands, you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join the Service Support and Business Applications Service Line (SSBA), which is responsible for planning and carry out all the tasks related to managing logistics and business application services throughout their entire lifecycle, across internal and external NATO customers.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer (Business Intelligence) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

Methods and tools
• Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
Software design
• Participate in the design of complex software applications, components and modules.
• Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology.
Programming/software development
• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
• Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools and techniques.
Power BI Integration:
• Proficiently manage Power BI Report Server and Power BI Desktop proficient, including setup, configuration and optimization;
• Write SQL and integrate various data sources in Power BI;
• Develop and publish interactive dashboards and reports in Power BI;
Oracle Expertise:
• Identify data objects from OBIA data warehouses and data marts;
• Perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes;

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:
• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience;
• Data Modelling and Design: Proficient in designing normalized and de-normalized data models, star/snowflake schemas;
• In depth knowledge and extensive experience with Power BI, including data modelling, DAX, and dashboard design;
• Proven experience as an Oracle BI Consultant;
• In-depth understanding of OBIA architecture, components, functionalities and Oracle Data base security;
• Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Proficiency and strong hands-on experience with Oracle Data Integrator for designing and implementing ETL processes;
• Knowledge and experience analysing complex data sets;
• Strong understanding of Power BI and DWH architecture, components, functionalities and Oracle and Microsoft Data base security;
• Experience with ODAC;
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
• Excellent private health insurance scheme;
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
• NATO Pension Scheme;
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.