Workflow Automation 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 Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO. The program Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS) DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams. The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe. The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities. Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives. Role ID: ACT-CDMS-27-01-A-LC08 Role Background Provide hands-on digital workflow prototyping and citizendevelopment support to digitize CAPDEV work and information flows using approved platforms and development tools outside the Microsoft Power Platform environment. They are expected to work directly with operational users to identify workflow problems and opportunities, rapidly design and personally build proof-of-concept and pilot solutions, test those solutions in operational use, iterate based on evidence and user feedback, and prepare successful solutions for transition to enterprise development, DevSecOps, platform, or scaling organizations. This is a hands-on rapid delivery role. The requirement is not primarily for enterprise architecture, strategic advisory, product management, programme management, softwaredevelopment team leadership, or supervision of development performed by others. The objective is to allow CAPDEV to test digitally transformed workflows quickly and at relatively low cost before committing resources to enduring implementation, while ensuring successful prototypes generate sufficient operational, technical, and requirements evidence to support responsible scaling. Roles Duties and Responsibilities

• Support CAPDEV organizations through hands-on rapid development of digital workflow proofs of concept, prototypes, and operational pilots using approved non-Microsoft lowcode, no-code, configurable-application, workflow, lightweight development, or comparable platforms and tools.
• Work directly with process owners, operational users, analysts, managers, and information stakeholders to understand existing work and information flows, decisions, handoffs, data requirements, pain points, and opportunities for digital transformation.
• Document current and desired workflows at sufficient detail to identify user roles, workflow states, decision points, information exchanges, business rules, data requirements, and minimum functionality needed to test a redesigned process.
• Translate operational needs into minimum viable prototype or pilot requirements that can be rapidly developed, demonstrated, tested, and iterated with users.
• Design, configure, develop, test, and improve digital applications and workflows that replace or materially reduce manual, spreadsheet-intensive, email-driven, form-based, documentcentric, or otherwise fragmented CAPDEV processes.
• Configure structured data capture, user roles, workflow states, business rules, validations, routing, approvals, notifications, status tracking, role-based views, and other functionality required to operationally test redesigned workflows.
• Integrate prototype and pilot solutions with approved data sources or services using APIs, databases, web services, webhooks, structured file exchange, or other authorized mechanisms appropriate to the technical environment.
• Develop lightweight scripts, components, application logic, or integrations when configurable or low-code functionality alone is insufficient to test the operational requirement.
• Use approved AI-assisted development capabilities, where available and appropriate, to accelerate prototyping, code development, configuration, testing, documentation, or iterative solution improvement while maintaining appropriate human review and technical accountability.
• Conduct user testing and operational pilots with representative CAPDEV users and iteratively improve solutions based on observed use, stakeholder feedback, technical findings, and changes to the operational requirement.
• Establish appropriate baselines and assess prototype or pilot effects on factors such as cycle time, manual processing effort, data completeness, information availability, workflow visibility, traceability, usability, and user adoption.
• Identify security, data-management, information-management, architecture, integration, licensing, hosting, scalability, and sustainment constraints sufficiently early to inform whether and how a prototype should progress toward enduring implementation.
• Design prototypes to use authoritative information sources where practical and avoid unnecessary creation of duplicate, unsupported, or orphaned data stores.
• Apply proportionate development and lifecycle practices appropriate to rapid prototyping, including version or configuration control, documentation of business rules and dependencies, testing, management of development artifacts, and separation of prototype and operational environments where supported.
• Document process requirements, workflow logic, data structures, integrations, user roles, business rules, configuration, code or scripts, assumptions, known limitations, test findings, and operational lessons sufficiently to support reuse, assessment, and transition.
• Prepare transition packages for successful prototypes and pilots, including requirements, process design, user stories or equivalent functional descriptions, data structures, integrations, business rules, test results, known limitations, technical dependencies, and recommendations for enduring implementation.
• Collaborate with enterprise developers, DevSecOps teams, platform owners, system integrators, data teams, cybersecurity personnel, and other scaling organizations to support transition from CAPDEV prototype or pilot to enduring implementation.
• Maintain visibility of active proto