Strategic Investment Planning Technical Lead Security Clearance

Position: Strategic Investment Planning Technical Lead 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 Weapon Systems Engineering Department (N261) is dedicated to delivering world-class engineering solutions and technical leadership to enhance Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capabilities.

Its mission is to enable resilient, adaptive, and scalable weapon systems that counter emerging threats and safeguard national security and the homeland. The Department is seeking a technically proficient and strategically oriented Strategic Investment Planning Technical Lead to support the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) strategic planning, future capability assessment, and investment prioritization efforts. The successful candidate will bring strong experience in strategic planning, mission engineering, architecture analysis, and resource-informed decision-making, and will advise senior leadership by integrating threat assessments, operational concepts, capability gaps, technology opportunities, and resource considerations into actionable recommendations.

This individual will help strengthen the Agency's planning, analysis, and governance processes to inform priorities and guide investments that enhance the Missile Defense System's ability to address evolving threats and mission needs

Roles & Responsibilities :
The Strategic Investment Planning Technical Lead will be responsible for leading and executing key elements of the Missile Defense Agency's strategic planning, future capability assessment, strategic investment analysis, and resource-informed decision-making activities. The successful candidate will work closely with senior MDA leadership, the Directorate for Strategy, Plans, and Resources (DZ), Chief Architect, Engineering, Advanced Capabilities, program offices, and external mission partners while serving as a trusted technical advisor and strategic planning leader.

The individual will help shape the Agency's future direction by integrating threat assessments, future operational concepts, architecture analyses, capability gap assessments, technology opportunities, and resource considerations into actionable recommendations that inform Agency priorities and future investments. In this role, the candidate will help plan, coordinate, execute, and continuously improve the Agency's strategic planning and investment prioritization processes, ensuring future capability needs, architecture evolution, emerging technologies, and resource considerations are integrated into decision-making.

The individual will lead the integration of technical, operational, acquisition, and resource perspectives to identify and prioritize investments that strengthen the Missile Defense System's ability to address evolving threats and mission needs. As a key contributor within the MDA work program, the selected individual will provide technical leadership across strategic planning, mission engineering, architecture development, systems analysis, capability assessment, investment analysis, and portfolio evaluation activities while facilitating collaboration across technical, operational, acquisition, and resource communities.

The candidate will help develop and institutionalize planning methodologies, analytical frameworks, governance processes, and decision-support approaches that strengthen the Agency's ability to evaluate future capabilities and prioritize strategic investments. Highly competitive candidates must bring a strong technical background and depth of missile defense domain knowledge and experience to advance the department's strategic planning and investment analysis capabilities in one or more of the following areas:
* Future missile defense architecture development and assessment

* Capability gap analysis and investment prioritization

* Mission engineering and operational effectiveness analysis

* Emerging technology evaluation and transition planning

* Strategic planning, portfolio management, and resource-informed decision-making within complex defense enterprises In addition, specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
* Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of strategic planning and investment analysis activities that assess future threats, mission…