Staff Officer (Data Scientist) - NATO 2030

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Staff Officer (Data Scientist) – NATO 2030: Manage data pipelines and LLM projects for JFCBS operations in Brunssum, The Netherlands.

Join NATO's Joint Force Command Brunssum and contribute to operational decision-making through advanced analytics and data integration.

Title: Staff Officer (Data Scientist) – NATO 2030

NATO International Civilian Grade: 15

Duty Location: Brunssum, The Netherlands

Requirement filling date: as soon as possible

Closing date for applications: 26 July 2026

Our organisation

Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFCBS) provides a Joint headquarters to plan, prepare and conduct operations to support NATO’s core tasks, at the Joint Operational level, as directed by SACEUR. The Operations Directorate is responsible for directing, monitoring, coordinating and assessing operational functions and advising the Chief of Staff (COS) regarding all regionally focused operational activities. The J3 Division is responsible to Operations Director for the implementation and oversight of operational plans, procedures and techniques to ensure effective Command & Control (C2) of assigned forces in Baseline Activities and Current Operations (BACO) through Crisis up to Maximum Level Effort (MLE). The J3/3 Current Operations Branch provides 24/7 situational awareness by exploiting available operational information and current intelligence to aid timely decisions and effective Command & Control (C2) from Baseline Activities and Current Operations (BACO) to Conflict.

The main duties of Staff Officer (Data Scientist) are to:

• ü Support the development of data utilization projects through deep engagement with JFCBS Divisions, identifying relevant user problems and operational workflow degradations. Work independently and/or with NATO MSS Engineers to create applications in order to better support JFCBS personnel's operational workflow. Build and maintain the Decision Advantage Environment (DAE) briefing tool within NATO-MSS.
• ü Ensure efficient data retrieval and augmentation processes to support Large Language Model (LLM) training and inference. Collaborate with NATO MSS Engineers to optimize data pipelines for LLM performance and accuracy.
• ü Develop and maintain semantic and ontology data layers to enhance data integration and retrieval. Ensure data is semantically enriched to support advanced analytics and machine learning models.
• ü Implement data quality checks and validation processes to ensure data accuracy and reliability from various NATO sources. Adhere to data governance policies and best practice.
• ü Monitor and optimize the performance of data pipelines and infrastructure. Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues in a timely manner.
• ü Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of data pipelines, processes, and infrastructure. Ensure knowledge transfer and continuity within the team.

Required Qualifications are:

• Ø English – good – NATO Standard Language Proficiency 3333. (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) in accordance with NATO standard agreement (STANAG) 6001. NOTE: The work both oral and written in this post and in this Headquarters as a whole is conducted mainly in English.
• Ø University Degree or equivalent in relevant field / discipline. (equivalent is Higher Secondary Education AND completed advanced vocational training in relevant field leading to a professional certification or accreditation).
• Ø Minimum 12 months of hands‑on professional experience working with enterprise data operating systems such as Palantir Foundry.
• Ø Minimum 2 years of professional experience managing enterprise data within digital transformation and data analytics initiatives.
• Ø Minimum 2 years professional experience using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks, Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries, and/or retrieval-based solutions (e.g., LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows).

Desirable Qualifications are:

• Ø Proficiency in Python or equivalent coding discipline.
• Ø Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Ø Experience with data pipelines for LLM workflows, including data retrieval, augmentation and optimisation.
• Ø Experience with semantic and ontology data layers and their application in data integration and retrieval.
• Ø Experience writing and maintaining coding and software documentation.
• Ø Completion of relevant courses/training.

The successful candidate possesses following personal attributes:

• ü Excellent communication skills, both oral and written - able to communicate at all levels;
• ü Good interpersonal skills including tact and diplomacy;
• ü Ability to collaborate and work with different stakeholders.

The successful selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance and is required to pass a medical examination before an employment contract offer will be released. The medical examination will take place with our medical consultant, is required to determine if the recommended candidate is fit to perform the duties and is deployable to NATO's areas of operation.

This requirement is in support of the NATO 2030 agenda.

The successful candidate will be offered a 3-year definite duration contract as NATO International Civilian (NIC); remuneration will be exempt from taxation and allowances will be applied whenever applicable.

For serving NATO international Civilians: contract will be offered in accordance with the NATO Civilian Personnel Regulations and the additional Nations’ guidance (MCM-0061-2023 for NATO 2030 Project Linked NICs). The selected staff member will get a definite duration contract regardless of the current contract, with the exception of the case when they have more than 10 years of service, in which case they will receive an indefinite duration contract.

Due date for receipt of applications: Sunday 26 July 2026, 23:59.

Candidates have to apply electronically in NATO Talent Acquisition Program: https://nato.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

IMPORTANT:

Please be aware that a Selection Board will only assess the information provided in the job submission form including the answers to the pre‑screening questions and description of your work experiences.  Your answers must be comprehensive and stand alone; do not rely on attached documents for essential information (Attachments are supporting documents and should not be referred to in the job submission).   For example, if a pre‑selection question asks you to justify how you meet the minimum experience requirement, you must explicitly detail in the answer box  how  your experience directly aligns with, or exceeds, the stated requirement. Simply stating you meet the requirement is insufficient; provide concrete examples and quantifiable details.  These experiences should also be included in the description of your work experiences.

Only candidates meeting ALL  essential required qualifications will be considered and be assessed in competition with other candidates.

Please note that NATO will not accept any phase of the recruitment and selection prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial‑intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre‑Trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. NATO reserves the right to screen applications to  identify  the use of such tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part,  by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at NATO’s sole discretion, and NATO reserves the right to take further steps in such cases as  appropriate.