Technical Evaluation Framework Lead; Intelligence Center) Security Clearance
Job in
McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listed on 2026-09-03
Listing for:
MITRE Corporation
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, Data Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 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. This individual will develop rigorous evaluation metrics and benchmarks; assess technology alignment to mission and strategic objectives; identify technical, operational, and integration dependencies; and translate evaluation results into clear recommendations for improvement, retirement, sustainment, or further investment. The role will support senior technology governance activities through decision matrices, prioritization frameworks, executive briefings, assessment reports, and other products that enable informed resource and technology-planning decisions.
The ideal candidate will combine broad technical depth with strong analytic judgment and the ability to evaluate diverse technologies across data, analytics, software, infrastructure, integration, and emerging technology domains. The individual must be able to establish repeatable and defensible evaluation methods, facilitate multidisciplinary assessments, communicate tradeoffs to senior government leaders, and operate effectively as an objective technical advisor in a complex classified environment.
The role requires approximately 80-100% on-site support in McLean, Virginia.
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…
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