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The MITRE Corporation Chief Engineer, Mission Enablers in Aberdeen, Maryland
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The Chief Engineer is responsible for partnering with leadership to deliver high impact outcomes across MITRE’s work program to the DHS HQ organizations including S&T, CWMD, DHS CIO, Intel and Analysis (I&A) etc. The Chief Engineer will drive the technical quality of the work program and lead the ongoing evolution as well as the development of new technical capabilities such as labs, platforms, tools and models. The Chief Engineer will also be responsible for cultivating participation in the MITRE innovation program and be the catalyst to ensure that the mission enabler division leverages the MITRE innovation program to its fullest extent possible.
MITRE’s DHS Mission Enabler work program is one of the most exciting and diverse at MITRE. It encompasses the portfolio of research for DHS S&T including Quantum sensing, election security, biometrics, cyber forensics, PNT, communications, combating force labor, countering fentanyl and many other emerging technology areas. The work in this division also includes network architecture, wireless communications, acquisition support, and enterprise cyber security for the DHS CIO. The work has real and immediate benefits to the everyday lives of U.S. residents. This includes demonstrable impact on the effectiveness including combating the Fentanyl epidemic, reenforcing forced labor laws, ensuring the national security of the food supply chain, countering weapons of mass destruction on our homeland, among many other exciting areas.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Technical Quality
Develop and provide oversight of the work program
Drive technical quality and lead the development of technical quality standards within a mission function/technical specialty and across a mission/technical area
Provide input on the quality of goals and operationalization of the good growth strategy in partnership with business and people leadership, including the quality of staff hired, staff development, and training initiatives necessary to ensure appropriate technical quality is achieved
Technical Impact
Ensure that integrated portfolios/centers are driving coherent technical change
Ensure that individual projects are driving change at a technical level while partnering with project leaders to ensure the project itself is the right level of onset during inception
Provide input into Mission Value Chains (MVCs) at the appropriate organizational level
Strategy Development
Partner with leaders to establish the formulation and management of the sponsor strategy or corporate/functional strategy
Develops close working relationships with sponsors and stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor in the sponsor organization and/or across the MITRE enterprise on major initiatives, policies, challenges, and priorities
Develop the strategy for enhancing a technical field or the utilization of a technical field within MITRE, including research, internal and external initiatives, and partnerships
Develop the strategy for enhancing a technical specialty or the utilization of a technical specialty within MITRE, including the ability to call for a technical review on a specific project within the appropriate organizational scope
Staff Development
Mentor, train, and develop staff within the appropriate organizational scope
Contribute to staff development, talent assessment, and planning (hiring, mentoring, and training needs), including senior staff across Centers.
Develop and define cultural initiatives in partnership with others to meet desired organizational culture
Partnership and Initiatives
Lead cross-Division technical initiatives with notable complexity, developing strategy for project execution
Lead cross-Program and Project-level technical initiatives
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 10 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Engineering, Applied Math, IT, or Computer Science
7 years of leadership experience
Active Top Secret/SCI
A technical background in one or more of the following:
Digital Transformation, Information Technology and Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline
Operational Research, Modeling and Simulation, or related discipline
C4I Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation, Communication Systems, or related discipline
Surveillance Systems
This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven experience engaging senior sponsors with successful impacts and outcomes, and establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships,
Demonstrated success in work development, shaping, and execution
Work experience with DHS
Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills to support individual, team, and customer-related interaction
Demonstrated success in developing and delivering high-quality technical products under direct projects that result in accomplishment of Sponsor outcomes
Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:
Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.
Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.
Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.
Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.
Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI
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
Work Location Type:
Onsite
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