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Senior Mission Solutions Architect

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2 days ago
New Bedford, MA, USA or McLean, VA, USASenior

Base Salary

$121k - $182k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Engage mission customers and stakeholders to translate objectives, constraints, workflows, data, and security needs into technical requirements and solution concepts.
  • Develop and document solution architectures connecting mission needs with platforms, secure compute environments, access patterns, data flows, developer tooling, policies, and system-design options.
  • Create implementation guidance, architecture artifacts, decision records, backlog entries, and delivery roadmaps for technical teams.
  • Evaluate solution alternatives and tradeoffs, identifying risks, dependencies, gaps, and practical implementation paths.
  • Improve front-door, intake, demand-discovery, onboarding, consulting, and feedback processes to support capability adoption.
  • Help mission teams discover and navigate approved capabilities, access processes, constraints, and support models.
  • Collaborate across platform, laboratory, Enterprise Technology, Information Security Services, software, data, and systems engineering teams while leading defined technical tasks or small efforts.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 3 years with a master’s degree, a PhD with relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Experience with solution or systems architecture, requirements analysis, mission-needs translation, platform integration, secure computing, access patterns, data workflows, cloud or hybrid platforms, developer tooling, or related technical practices.
  • Experience engaging customers or mission stakeholders and independently translating needs into solution concepts, architecture products, implementation guidance, backlog entries, or roadmaps.
  • Experience evaluating technical options and tradeoffs, analyzing multiple information sources, and identifying risks, dependencies, and solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical information, build consensus, collaborate with technical and senior stakeholders, and lead defined technical tasks or small efforts.
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government-issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance consideration.
  • Preferred qualifications include a graduate degree and experience in customer-facing solution architecture, technical consulting, platform intake, capability adoption, controlled computing environments, software delivery, data platforms, analytics, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, secure compute, or technical enablement processes.
  • An active Secret security clearance is preferred.

Benefits

  • Onsite work with a minimum of 3 days per week in McLean, VA or Bedford, MA, plus up to 5% travel.
  • MITRE describes competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About MITRE

5,001-10,000 employees

MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.

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