Transformation Area Lead

Duties (Tasks & Responsibilities)

Transformation Leadership & Project Management

• Lead and coordinate NATO's portfolio of cloud, data, and AI transformation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain transformation roadmaps aligned with strategic objectives and business outcomes.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, and objectives.
• Coordinate project dependencies, resources, budgets, timelines, and delivery risks.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate programme and project risks.
• Ensure compliance with NATO governance, security, and accreditation requirements, including Security Accreditation of CIS where applicable.
• Monitor programme performance and drive continuous improvement across transformation initiatives.

Roadmap Development & Strategic Planning

• Develop and maintain an integrated enterprise transformation roadmap covering Cloud, Data, and AI.
• Define milestones, releases, decision gates, and implementation priorities.
• Manage technical, operational, procurement, security, and resource dependencies.
• Coordinate sequencing of initiatives to optimize delivery and reduce implementation risks.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, service management, programme teams, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain consistency across multiple transformation programmes and organizational functions.

Stakeholder Management & Governance

• Build and maintain relationships with senior NATO leadership, business owners, programme teams, security authorities, and external stakeholders.
• Support and coordinate governance boards and committees such as the Cloud Strategy Group.
• Represent the CDT Division during governance meetings and transformation forums.
• Facilitate workshops, working groups, and cross-functional problem-solving sessions.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, presentations, reports, and decision papers.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and organizational alignment throughout transformation programmes.

Communication & Reporting

• Produce executive-quality documentation, governance reports, and strategic communications.
• Present complex technical and business topics clearly to senior leadership.
• Report progress, risks, issues, and recommendations to the CDT Team Lead.
• Ensure effective communication across enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience leading enterprise digital transformation programmes within NATO or similarly complex government, defence, military, or critical infrastructure organizations.
• Minimum 8 years in senior leadership or management positions with accountability for budgets, teams, programme delivery, and strategic outcomes.
• Proven experience managing large industry contracts and commercial delivery governance.
• Strong business and strategic planning skills with the ability to translate strategy into executable transformation roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise portfolios across Cloud, Data, and Artificial Intelligence initiatives.
• Excellent English communication skills, including executive-level presentations and written documentation.
• Proven ability to influence and lead senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Active NATO SECRET Security Clearance (mandatory).

Desired Requirements

• Experience with NATO Security Accreditation Policy and security assurance processes.
• Professional certification in programme or project management (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent).
• Experience with IT governance frameworks such as COBIT.
• Experience with ITIL service management practices.
• Knowledge of organizational change management methodologies.
• Experience with on-premises data centres and secure or air-gapped cloud environments.
• Experience implementing enterprise data platforms, including:
  • Data Governance
  • Data Products
  • Metadata Management
  • Data Quality
• Experience implementing Responsible AI or AI governance in secure environments.
• Experience working in multinational and multicultural organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across diverse organizations.
• Experience coordinating enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, procurement, and service management functions.
• Ability to work effectively in highly secure, politically complex, and matrix-managed environments.
• Willingness to work full-time on-site at NATO Headquarters in Brussels with occasional travel to NATO organizations.