DoW & Services Center Chief Engineer Security Clearance

Position: DoW & Services Center Chief Engineer with Security Clearance
At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future. The Department of War and Services (D&S) Center delivers mission-critical capabilities across the full defense lifecycle-from advancing transformational science and technology, to leading systems engineering for major acquisition programs, to integrating interoperable capabilities into complex operational environments.

The Center partners with sponsors to solve the nation's most pressing defense challenges through technical excellence, innovation, and enterprise collaboration. The D&S Center Chief Engineer (CE) is the Center's senior technical leader, responsible for help shaping MITRE's Technical Strategy and managing MITRE's strategic capabilities as well as stewarding the Center's technical vision, strengthening technical quality, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative, mission-driven solutions.

Working across MITRE and with government sponsors, the Center Chief Engineer fosters cross-cutting collaboration, develops technical capabilities, and advances solutions that maximize mission impact.

Job Description:

The D&S Center CE partners with the Vice President, Operations Manager, Division Directors, and Division Chief Engineers to establish the Center's technical strategy and ensure technical excellence across the portfolio. The Center CE provides enterprise technical leadership by shaping strategic investments, shaping MITRE's technical strategy, stewarding MITRE's technical capabilities, strengthening engineering practices, guiding technical workforce development, managing MITRE's external facing mission impact messagin, and promoting collaboration across MITRE's Business Organizations, Resource Organizations, and Independent Research and Development program.

This role serves as the senior technical authority for the Center, ensuring that investments, programs, and technical capabilities align with MITRE, Sector, and Center priorities while delivering measurable mission outcomes for sponsors.

Roles & Responsibilities :
Technical Strategy & Innovation
* Define and execute the Center's technical strategy in alignment with Center, Sector, and corporate priorities.

* Shape the technical portfolio by identifying emerging mission needs, developing new capabilities, and guiding strategic investments.

* Partner with MITRE Independent Research and Development (IR&D) program leadership, research leads, and enterprise technical leaders to mature and transition high-impact research into sponsor solutions.

* Promote enterprise collaboration to leverage MITRE platforms, reusable capabilities, and cross-cutting technical expertise.

* Contribute to MITRE's technical strategy

* Ensure proper delivery of CPARs, Comprehensive Reviews, and other official documentation and contractual obligations associated with technical quality and mission impact
Technical Leadership & Quality
* Establish and continuously improve the Center's technical quality framework, engineering practices, and technical standards via management of the Continuous Baseline Review Process.

* Lead the D&S Engineering Council and foster a culture of technical excellence, learning, and continuous improvement. Represent D&S and MNS interests in the Capability and Engineering Council to ensure alignment and representation of corporate integrated capabilities across MNS work programs.

* Provide independent technical oversight of critical programs, products, and investments, including technical assessments and reviews.

* Partner with Division Chief Engineers to strengthen technical execution and ensure consistent engineering rigor across the portfolio.

* Contribute to MITRE's technical strategy
Mission Impact & Sponsor Value
* Ensure the Center's technical portfolio delivers measurable mission outcomes and advances sponsor priorities, including the collection and management of Center-wide impact stories.

* Guide technical planning and Mission Value Chain development to maximize strategic impact across programs.

* Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior government sponsors and MITRE leadership.

* Represent MITRE in technical communities, strengthening the organization's external reputation and influence.
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