Principal Operations Subject Matter Expert

Lead and facilitate engineering and operational support for rapid prototyping, capability piloting, and innovative technology integration to address Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) priority requirements.

Advise on the integration of emerging coalition-enabling CJADC2 technologies, ensuring they are scalable and interoperable with existing and planned DND networks and databases.

Establish and document key metrics, testing criteria, and evaluation frameworks for Joint Command and Control (C2) test and evaluation activities in collaboration with CAF stakeholders.

Collaborate with Systems Engineers and DevOps/ProdOps teams to identify and document user needs, software modifications, and information assurance requirements across the prototype mission lifecycle.

Deliver professional documentation and training on experimental prototype applications to ensure capabilities are readily usable by CJWC and CAF personnel during operational exercises.

Optimize the Joint Operations Fusion Lab (JOFL) by providing system and software integration support of specialized applications, network architectures, and physical/virtual IT infrastructures.

Support the CJWC event lifecycle by reviewing, analyzing, and documenting exercises, training plans, experiments, and war-gaming events to deliver formal recommendations for enhanced C2/C4ISR integration.

 Author comprehensive Event Lessons Learned reports capturing data, operational outcomes, system performance, and procedural gaps to refine CJWC training execution and control procedures.

Develop system administration and maintenance procedures for specialized C2, C4ISR, and geomatics systems within the JOFL to ensure high availability and baseline configuration control.

Coordinate and deliver maintenance services for geomatics and C4ISR networks across multiple organizations, including the CJWC, JOFL, and Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC).

Provide dedicated engineering and operational SME support to the CAF Joint Targeting Centre of Expertise and strategic targeting organizations, including the Joint Targeting Intelligence Centre (JTIC), Joint Operations and Effects (JOE), Director Strategic Effects and Targeting (DSET), and Targeting Capability Implementation Team (TCIT).

Advise Joint Targeting governance bodies on requirements development, analytical best practices, and innovative technologies to drive successful joint targeting planning and execution.

Develop, deliver, and integrate individual and collective Joint Targeting training programs into the Master Training Plan, authoring all required training documents, scenarios, and student materials.

Formulate recommendations for policy direction, standards evaluation, and doctrine updates to modernize CAF joint targeting practices and align them with allied coalition capabilities.

Synthesize intelligence integration and other warfighting functions (movement and maneuver, fires, protection, sustainment, command and control, information) into modernized organizational operational concepts.

Deliver operational expertise on US 7 Joint Warfighting Functions and associated joint doctrine, identifying capability gaps and defining actionable systems engineering requirements to resolve them.

Conduct Course of Action (COA) analysis to evaluate the operational, technical, and doctrinal implications of proposed changes to CAF procedures, joint battle rhythms, and strategic decision-making architectures.

Understanding of the CAF: Demonstrated experience providing direct operational and/or engineering support to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), including the Canadian Joint Warfare Centre (CJWC), Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC), and strategic joint targeting organizations. Proactively advising, mentoring, and delivering tailored training to senior CAF leaders and GO/FO authorities to institutionalize Joint Targeting, Joint C2, and C4ISR capabilities across the joint enterprise.

Digital Fires Support Systems: Proven, hands-on operational and technical experience with JADOCS and other critical Joint or Service-specific Targeting systems, databases, and digital fire support architectures.

Operational Staff Experience: Experience working at a Combatant Command (e.g., J2, J3, J5, J8), Sub-unified Command, Service Component Command, or Joint Staff level. Must possess a deep understanding of operational and strategic staff functions sufficient to engage senior military leadership on battle rhythm events, operational concepts, and system integration.

Process Standardization: Demonstrated experience developing and refining highly structured Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), or doctrinally focused operational process documents.

 Analytical & Data Skills: Proven history of gathering, analyzing, and presenting complex operational facts using structured data collection, analysis, and dissemination tools.

Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with a proven ability to interact confidently with senior military, government, and corporate stakeholders (General Officers, Executive Directors, etc.) and extract actionable strategic takeaways.

Autonomy & Travel: Ability to work independently with limited daily oversight and function effectively as part of a geographically separated operations team. Must be willing and able to travel up to 50% (22–24 weeks per year) to Ottawa, Canada, or relocate.

Education: Equivalent of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Military History, or a related technical/operational discipline.

Joint Targeting Enterprise: Prior training or operational experience in Joint Targeting and Intelligence Fusion.

Systems Engineering & Agile: Familiarity with Agile software development frameworks, systems engineering processes for documenting user requirements, and rapid prototyping lifecycles.