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The Mission Operations Department supports national intelligence mission centers by strengthening warning, collection, analysis, enterprise coordination, and strategy execution. The department brings together technical, analytic, and mission expertise to help government sponsors address complex challenges, improve enterprise capabilities, and advance national security outcomes.
MITRE's National Intelligence Division is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to support the development, integration, and modernization of enterprise capabilities for an Intelligence Community sponsor. The successful candidate will work directly with government stakeholders to understand mission needs, develop technical requirements, assess system architectures, and identify practical solutions to complex enterprise challenges. Assignments may focus on integrating screening and vetting capabilities through shared services and unified entity search, or on enterprise architecture, cloud capability assessments, and modernization strategy. Candidates are not expected to specialize in both areas.
We seek an experienced engineer with sound technical judgment, analytical problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate mission requirements into actionable engineering recommendations. This full-time position is embedded on-site with the sponsor in Bethesda, Maryland.
Roles & Responsibilities:- Work with government sponsors and technical stakeholders to define mission needs, technical requirements, and engineering approaches.
- Develop and assess systems architectures, integration approaches, and enterprise capabilities supporting mission objectives.
- Evaluate interoperability, shared services, information sharing, and cross-system search across existing systems.
- Assess cloud capabilities, software architectures, and emerging technologies to inform modernization decisions.
- Conduct technical assessments, trade studies, and risk analyses of solution alternatives and implementation approaches.
- Develop architecture documentation, technical recommendations, implementation plans, and decision briefings.
- Coordinate with government, MITRE, and industry teams to align engineering activities and support mission outcomes.
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
- Experience in systems engineering, solution architecture, systems integration, enterprise architecture, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Experience developing or evaluating technical requirements, architectures, integration approaches, or engineering solutions.
- Ability to evaluate technical alternatives and communicate clear recommendations to mission and technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
- Must have an active Top Secret/SCI w/Poly U.S Government issued Security Clearance.
- This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience supporting Intelligence Community, Department of War, or related national security missions.
- Experience with enterprise system integration, shared services, APIs, and interoperable architectures.
- Familiarity with cloud architectures and enterprise modernization.
- Experience with data integration, entity resolution, information sharing, or cross-system search.
- Experience preparing enterprise strategies, architecture documentation, roadmaps, or decision products.
- Experience advising senior government stakeholders and coordinating across organizations.
- Familiarity with screening and vetting, counterintelligence, or intelligence security missions.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
Salary compensation range and midpoint:$147,200 - $184,000 - $220,800 Annual
Work Location Type:Onsite
Commitment to Non-DiscriminationAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.
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