8 days ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$121k - $182k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engage mission customers and stakeholders to understand objectives, constraints, workflows, data, security context, and success criteria.
- Translate ambiguous mission needs into technical requirements, solution concepts, and executable delivery paths.
- Develop and document architectures covering platforms, access patterns, secure compute environments, data flows, developer tooling, policies, and system-design options.
- Create implementation guidance, backlog entries, architecture artifacts, decision records, and delivery roadmaps.
- Evaluate solution alternatives and technical tradeoffs while identifying risks, dependencies, gaps, and practical paths forward.
- Improve front-door, demand-discovery, onboarding, consulting, and feedback processes and share recurring customer insights.
- Help mission teams discover and navigate approved capabilities, access processes, constraints, and support models.
- Collaborate across platform, laboratory, enterprise technology, information security, software, data, and systems engineering teams; lead defined technical tasks or small efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with typically at least 5 years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 3 years of related experience, or 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 translating their needs into solution concepts, architecture products, implementation guidance, backlog entries, or delivery roadmaps.
- Experience evaluating technical options and tradeoffs, analyzing multiple information sources, and identifying risks, dependencies, and practical solutions.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information, build consensus, collaborate with technical and organizational stakeholders, and lead defined technical efforts.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S. government security clearance within one year of hire; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred graduate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred experience in customer-facing solution architecture, technical consulting, requirements discovery, platform intake, capability adoption, controlled computing environments, software delivery, DevSecOps, data platforms, analytics, modeling and simulation, or mission workflows.
- Preferred active TS/SCI clearance.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth.
- Hybrid schedule with a minimum of three days per week onsite at a listed MITRE location.
- Up to 5% travel.
- Onsite work-location designation is listed for the role.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization. We’re a leader in federally funded research, delivering deep technical integration, developing rapid prototypes, and innovating in the public interest. We serve as a force multiplier across multiple U.S. government agencies to bring together the right technologies and partners. Addressing complex mission challenges, we strengthen our nation’s security, health, and prosperity.