Technical Evaluation Framework Lead; Intelligence Center

Technical Evaluation Framework Lead

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The Mission Operations Department supports national intelligence mission centers by strengthening analytic capabilities, mission integration, and enterprise collaboration across complex national security challenges. The department partners closely with Intelligence Community sponsors to provide objective technical expertise, operational insight, and analytic leadership that improve mission outcomes. It delivers the data, analytic, and mission expertise required to help government partners address evolving counter terrorism challenges and advance national security objectives.

Position Summary:

MITRE's National Intelligence Division is seeking a Technical Evaluation Framework Lead to provide senior-level technical leadership supporting an Intelligence Community sponsor responsible for a complex national security mission. This role will be embedded on-site with the sponsor in McLean, Virginia, and will lead the development, implementation, and application of a comprehensive Technical Evaluation Framework for assessing the mission utility, technical value, and effectiveness of existing technologies.

The successful candidate will bring deep experience in systems engineering, technology assessment, enterprise architecture, technology portfolio management, and data-driven decision support.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of a repeatable Technical Evaluation Framework for assessing the mission utility, technical value, and effectiveness of existing and emerging technologies.
• Develop technical evaluation metrics, benchmarks, scoring criteria, and decision models that enable consistent, evidence-based comparison of technologies across mission, technical, and operational dimensions.
• Conduct and lead technology assessments, analyze alignment to mission and strategic objectives, and develop recommendations for improvement, sustainment, retirement, consolidation, or further investment.
• Assess technology, data, analytics, and integration environments to identify capability gaps, redundancies, dependencies, risks, and opportunities to improve mission effectiveness and enterprise interoperability.
• Mature technical evaluation practices through development of frameworks, models, policies, processes, standards, requirements, and repeatable governance methods.
• Develop executive decision-support products for senior technology governance forums, including assessment reports, briefing materials, decision matrices, prioritization frameworks, and technology-planning recommendations.
• Establish and maintain a reusable repository of technology evaluations, metrics, benchmarks, findings, and supporting evidence while coordinating assessments across government, MITRE, and contractor subject-matter experts.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years with a Master's degree; or 3 years with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Significant experience in systems engineering, technology assessment, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or technology portfolio management within the Intelligence Community, Department of War, or other national security environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying structured technical evaluation frameworks, metrics, benchmarks, scoring models, or decision criteria to compare technologies and inform investment or portfolio decisions.
• Experience assessing technology utility, value, and effectiveness using quantitative and qualitative evidence, including evaluation of mission alignment, performance, maturity, interoperability, dependencies, risk, and operational fit.
• Strong understanding of technology life cycles, enterprise systems integration, data and analytics environments, software and infrastructure architectures, and the relationships between technical capabilities and mission workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to translate mission and strategic objectives into measurable technical evaluation criteria and actionable recommendations for technology improvement,…