7 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$146k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer and mission engagements to discover needs, frame ambiguous problems, define objectives, and develop architecture strategies and phased delivery paths.
- Map mission needs to platforms, access patterns, secure compute environments, data flows, tooling, policies, system-design options, and dependencies.
- Direct technical trade studies, synthesize information, resolve complex problems, and recommend decisions with long-term mission or service impact.
- Lead functional teams or complex projects, establish technical objectives, coordinate multidisciplinary contributors, and guide execution without formal supervisory authority.
- Improve front-door and demand-discovery practices by identifying recurring patterns, portfolio gaps, priorities, resource needs, and service opportunities.
- Create and share reusable architecture patterns, customer guidance, service-catalog content, decision frameworks, and technical quality criteria.
- Mentor staff, transfer knowledge, communicate complex concepts, and influence stakeholders across platform, laboratory, technology, security, engineering, and leadership groups.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with typically at least 8 years of related experience, or 6 years with a master's degree, or a PhD with 3 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Extensive experience in solution or systems architecture, requirements analysis, mission-needs translation, platform integration, secure computing environments, access patterns, 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, framing ambiguous problems, evaluating technical tradeoffs, and translating needs into architecture products, implementation plans, backlogs, or roadmaps.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts and influence technical users, project leaders, platform teams, technology partners, security or compliance stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S. government security clearance within one year of hire.
- Preferred qualifications include a graduate degree in a relevant technical field, customer-facing solution architecture or consulting experience, architecture-roadmap and trade-study experience, work with controlled computing environments, and experience creating reusable architectures, intake mechanisms, guidance, and decision frameworks.
- Active TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite in McLean, VA; Bedford, MA; Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA; Omaha, NE; Ft. Meade, MD; Charlottesville, VA; or Los Angeles, CA.
- Travel up to 5%.
- Competitive benefits and exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth.
- Work at a not-for-profit organization focused on public-interest research and national mission challenges.
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.