Chief Engineer, Department

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Department Summary:

The Technical Intelligence and Integration Department (N963) within MITRE's Intelligence Center seeks a Department Chief Engineer to advance the delivery of high quality, high impact work for our sponsors, drive innovative solutions, develop Department talent, support business development activities, and provide thought leadership as part of the Department leadership team. N963 manages, guides, and directs 40 staff-years of technical and domain-specific work focused on Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting, and enterprise-wide solutions to various modernization challenges.

The work requires operating at senior-levels of government across a diverse set of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community sponsors. Our efforts directly support the U.S policy making, acquisition, and war fighting communities, and require a comprehensive understanding of the IC, its partners, and stakeholders operating in the technical analysis and foundational military intelligence spaces. This role will be a key part of defining and executing MITRE's enhanced focus on ensuring our business tightly enables our sponsor's top mission priorities.

Responsibilities:
The Chief Engineer is accountable for ensuring the Department's deliverables are of the highest quality, given the importance of the mission. The Chief Engineer of the Technical Intelligence and Integration Department works with stakeholders across MITRE to align and shape activities that have shared equities with all government sponsors. The Chief Engineer is accountable for coordinating with other Intelligence Center, MITRE Technology & Engineering, and Department/Division Chief Engineers to ensure the requisite level of quality standards are met on interconnected efforts while ensuring the relevance and impact of our products.

The Chief Engineer's responsibilities include:

Technical Quality

* Ensure the strength of the Department's work by shaping its content and bringing a perspective that reflects knowledge of the Department's domain and technical capability areas

* Provide technical direction and oversight to the project and other Department efforts

* Implement the technical quality program across the analytical domain to ensure products and recommendations delivered to MITRE's sponsors are independent, data-driven, technically sound, and properly reviewed

* Provide assessment of the FFRDC appropriateness of project activities within our work program and provide recommendations to ensure impactful use of FFRDC staff and resources

* Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MNS, MPS, and MTE to identify opportunities to define and improve technical quality norms across the Corporation

Technical Impact

* Lead key technical areas across the Department and manage the Department's connections across MNS and MITRE

* Drive innovation into Department's work program by leveraging and supporting staff in participating in the various MITRE research vehicles

* Represent the Department's requirements to the MITRE internal research and development community to assist with defining investments to address sponsors' pressing operational challenges

* Drive technical contributions to impact mission

* Provide technical expertise and guidance at the project, task, and individual levels

Business Strategy Development and Execution

* Partner in developing, refining, and driving the Department's contributions to the Intelligence Center strategy and help ensure our contributions satisfy its goals, objectives, and initiatives

* Identify new areas where MITRE is either uniquely positioned, or has an opportunity to provide, innovative capabilities to existing and emerging sponsors

* Identify capability areas of focus for the Department that are aligned to current and future sponsor needs

* Provide continuous assessment of the Department's capabilities to inform hiring/MTE staff…