Sharepoint 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 Background

NCIA has been established with a view to meeting the collective requirements of some or all NATO nations in the fields of capability delivery and service provision related to Consultation, Command & Control as well as Communications, Information and Cyber Defence functions, thereby also facilitating the integration of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition functions and their associated information exchange.

Within the NATO Digital Workplace Centre (NDWC), the Content Platforms (CP) Group provides a range of content centric services enabling secure collaboration. Core functionalities include creating, sharing, managing, organizing and preserving digital content to deliver enterprise-wide content lifecycle management, information access and governance. Common services available include document and records management, content publishing, business process management, data capture and indexing, categorization, content search, version control, analytics and artificial intelligence applied to content collaboration. Content Platform Services also provides Subject Matter Expertise for advice, guidance, business analysis, design, configuration, development and implementation of new and existing Content Platform Solutions and for a broad range of Content Management activities.

Through various projects, new capabilities are released in the form of SharePoint customizations (farm solutions, add-ins and client side solutions on versions 2013 through to online). After release, improvements are often required to make those customizations fully fit-for-purpose. This can relate to code quality, code vulnerabilities, feature stability, feature usage and documentation.

These capabilities include EDMS, PITT, NIP ,TT+ (collectively referred to as IKM tools) and include customizations to SharePoint which follow common development practices combining page elements, lists and SharePoint services (such as metadata, search and profile services)

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• As part of the sprint cycle, preparation of, and participation in sprint planning and refinement, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives with the wider team is expected. They are expected to reflect work done on respective Kanban Boards and within respective Agile Scrum templates in support of the respective Product Goals and Agile approach. It is assumed that these tasks are fulfilled within 16 hours per sprint cycle.
• Each planning session they are expected to contribute, prioritize and refine users stories within the respective backlogs of CP products.
• Every sprint cycle they should complete a sprint effort of 24 story points, according the Fibonacci scoring.
• In executing the user stories they shall adhere to quality and security guidance as provided by the NATO Digital Workplace Center, Content platforms group (NDWC CP).
• In completing user stories they are expected to introduce Test Driven Design (TDD) with the red, green, refactor approach in delivering user stories, prioritizing large stories over small ones in each respective sprint. They are expected to write these using Microsoft Playwright.
• The code delivered as part of completing the user stories is written in respective supported and preferred languages and frameworks. This includes supported versions of C# in .NET for Farm solutions and most recent supported versions of Javascript leveraging jQuery on classic pages and React along with SPFx and FluidUI on modern pages. Knowledge of CSS, PowerShell, Azure Repos, Azure DevOps Boards and Azure DevOps pipelines is further required to be able to complete developer related tasks.
• NATO branding guidelines should be followed where possible.
• Upon delivering working code as part of a user story, they should be able to demonstrate the full coverage of the story and acceptance criteria to the product owner of the respective capability and development team during the Sprint Review. This demonstration is assumed to take part within the scoped effort in terms of story points.

Deliverables

• D1 - Establish an initial backlog of at least 48 story points worth of work in IKM tools
• D2 - Establish an initial backlog of at least 48 story points worth of work in SharePoint configuration and customization within CP Projects
• D3 - Playwright Pilot
• D4 - Completed stories worth the total of 48 story points (equivalent of the burn up chart of 2 sprints performed by 1 development team member) x 7

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Working Policy

• Remote

Travel

• Some travel to NATO sites may be required (The Hague, Netherlands or Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium)

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance