2 days ago
New Bedford, MA, USA or McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$146k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer and mission engagements to discover needs, frame problems, define objectives, and translate requirements into architecture strategies and delivery paths.
- Map mission needs to platforms, secure compute environments, data flows, tooling, policies, access patterns, and system-design options.
- Direct technical trade studies, synthesize information, resolve complex problems, and recommend decisions with long-term mission impact.
- Lead functional teams or complex projects, establish technical objectives, coordinate multidisciplinary contributors, and guide execution without formal supervisory authority.
- Improve demand-discovery and front-door practices by identifying recurring patterns, portfolio gaps, priorities, resource needs, and service opportunities.
- Create reusable architecture patterns, customer guidance, service-catalog content, decision frameworks, and technical quality criteria; mentor staff and transfer knowledge.
- Communicate complex concepts and influence stakeholders across mission teams, platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, security, engineering communities, and leadership.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 6 years with a master's degree, 3 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Extensive experience in solution architecture, systems architecture, requirements analysis, mission needs translation, platform integration, secure computing environments, data workflows, cloud or hybrid platforms, developer services, mission computing, or related technical domains.
- Experience leading complex technical projects or functional teams, developing strategies and objectives, coordinating multidisciplinary contributors, and guiding execution without formal people-management authority.
- Experience engaging customers or mission stakeholders to frame ambiguous problems, communicate technical tradeoffs, and translate needs into architecture products, implementation plans, backlog entries, or roadmaps.
- Ability to communicate clearly and influence technical users, project leaders, platform teams, technology partners, security or compliance stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include a graduate degree in a relevant technical field, active Secret clearance, and experience with customer-facing architecture, technical consulting, platform intake, roadmaps, architecture reviews, controlled computing environments, and reusable reference architectures.
Benefits
- Onsite work in McLean, VA or Bedford, MA, with a minimum of three days per week onsite and up to 5% travel.
- MITRE provides competitive benefits and career development opportunities; detailed benefits information is available through the employer.
- The role supports meaningful national-security, health, transportation, and citizen-service missions in a nonprofit public-interest organization.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About MITRE
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.