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Job Overview

This role leads NATO HQ SACT’s digital transformation by designing and deploying Microsoft 365 and Power Platform solutions that streamline HR, travel, and business management workflows. The developer will build and expand custom Power Apps, automate SharePoint processes, and integrate with systems like Oracle ERP to deliver data-driven insights and improve operational efficiency. Success requires deep technical expertise in Power Platform, SharePoint, and secure API integrations, alongside the ability to deliver solutions in a complex, multinational environment. Candidates must bring at least five years of Microsoft development experience, hands-on Power Platform skills, and hold an active SECRET clearance with NATO-nation nationality.

Responsibilities

Join HQ SACT’s digital transformation effort to modernize administrative, HR, and business management workflows. As the lead Microsoft 365/Power Platform developer, you’ll design and support custom apps, automate processes, and integrate NATO systems—enabling staff to work smarter and leadership to make data-driven decisions.

  • Travel management solutions: Build and support a Power Apps–based tool to handle NATO travel processes (TDY, home leave, children’s education, recruitment, separation). Capture historical data and generate insights into travel patterns.
  • Integration with NATO systems: Extend existing SharePoint/Power Automate travel tools; deliver by Oct 2025 a standardized HQ travel planning tool for 2026. Explore API integration with NATO’s FinS (Oracle ERP).
  • Expand functionality: Enhance the travel portal with travel claim support and desk booking. Automate notifications to leadership about staff travel plans.
  • HR process automation: Develop SharePoint tools for civilian oversight and HR library management; oversee the HR workforce plan dashboard (including budget data); maintain existing PowerApps (“Revalidation of allowances”).
  • Business management & legal automation: Build automated workflows and provide in-house expertise for ongoing solution development.
  • Perform additional related tasks as assigned by the COTR.

Qualifications

  • Technical depth: 5+ years of Microsoft software development/DevOps (or equivalent degree).
  • Power Platform expertise: At least 3 of the last 5 years hands-on with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI.
  • SharePoint Online: 3+ years in the last 5 developing/customizing SP Online.
  • Integration: Experience delivering API integrations in constrained/secure network environments.
  • Governance: Familiar with Power Platform/intelligent automation frameworks (environment strategy, security models, DLP policies).
    • Security clearance: Active SECRET and NATO-nation nationality.

Ideal Candidate

  • Analytical & Strategic: Strong ability to synthesize complex policy and operational issues into clear recommendations.
  • Diplomatic Communicator: Experienced at briefing senior leaders and building consensus across multinational environments.
  • Security-Minded Professional: Holds (or is eligible for) NATO SECRET clearance and demonstrates discretion in handling sensitive information.
  • Multinational Expertise: Familiar with NATO structures, partnership frameworks, or defense/foreign policy organizations.
  • Hands-On & Adaptive: Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-stakes environments with incomplete data and evolving requirements.

Red Flags:

  • Lack of recent operating experience within NATO, defense, or international policy environments.
  • Limited exposure to multinational/multicultural teams.
  • Overly theoretical backgrounds without practical delivery in policy or operations.

Must-Have Requirements

  • Active SECRET clearance (NATO nation)
  • Eligible to work on-site at Norfolk, VA
  • At least 3 of last 5 years developing with Power Platform (Power Apps, Automate, BI) and SharePoint Online.
  • Proven experience with API integration in secure environments.

Screening Questions

1. Please describe a Power Apps or SharePoint Online solution you built in the last 3 years that automated a complex administrative or HR process. What impact did it have?
2. What is your experience with API integrations in constrained network environments (e.g., government, military, or secure enterprises)?
3. Do you currently hold an active SECRET clearance and are you a citizen of a NATO member nation?

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