Contractor to Analytics Specialist- Capability Lifecycle; Engineering

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.

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.

• Design, develop, and maintain analytic products that provide visibility into requirements definition, maturity, completeness, and alignment across the capability lifecycle.
• Support the analysis, decomposition, and structuring of complex system and capability requirements to enable effective analytics, traceability, and decision support.
• Develop analytics and reports that assess traceability between requirements, architectures, capabilities, verification artifacts, and delivery outcomes across engineering repositories.
• Integrate requirements and engineering data from multiple authoritative sources to enable unified analysis, reporting, and cross‑domain insight.
• Support configuration management and change control activities by developing analytics that track requirement baselines, version history, change impacts, and configuration status.
• Define, calculate, and maintain metrics that measure requirements quality, engineering progress, technical risk, and delivery readiness.
• Develop, customize, and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate engineering status, risks, and trends to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Integrate and correlate engineering data with programmatic, schedule, and risk data to support holistic capability lifecycle analysis.
• Perform validation, consistency checks, and quality assurance activities on engineering and requirements data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analytic outputs.
• Produce analytic products that support requirements reviews, design trade‑off analyses, technical governance forums, and capability assurance activities.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, program managers, and international stakeholders to capture analytic requirements and translate them into actionable engineering‑focused analytics.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate engineering analytics, reporting, and data preparation workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Support the configuration and effective use of analytics tools and engineering workflows to ensure adoption and consistent use across stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain documentation describing analytic logic, data sources, assumptions, and limitations for engineering‑focused analytics and reports.
• Deliver training sessions, user guides, and ad hoc support to ensure effective adoption and interpretation of engineering analytics products.
• Apply analytics expertise to support requirements‑based planning, capability development, verification, validation,…