Chief Engineer, Financial Systems

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Department Summary

The Treasury, Economics, and Commerce Division (P810) within MITRE’s Center for Government Enterprise Modernization (CGEM) leads a large, complex, and growing work program across sponsors in the economics, financial, and government services modernization domain. Our mission is to engineer solutions that advance economic and financial stability, opportunity, and prosperity across our CEM FFRDC sponsors, while creating opportunities for non-sponsors to obtain CEM FFRDC support when needed. Our highly agile team comprises systems engineers, data architects and strategists, program managers, economists and finance SMEs, acquisition and procurement specialists, and financial intelligence professionals. We use our expertise to shape innovative solutions for sponsors so they can advance their highest priorities and make progress against their hardest problems.

Roles & Responsibilities

• The Division Chief Engineer will support the work of two TEC departments (FRED/P812 and Treasury/P813). Our FRED/P812 department leads our work for the Federal Reserve, financial regulators, government modernization and shared services, and new non-sponsors. Our Treasury/P813 department leads our work for the Treasury Department (excluding IRS) and provides TEC support to key economic and financial intelligence projects across MITRE.
• As a key technical leader within P810, the Chief Engineer will be primarily responsible for the quality of our deliverables, to include strengthening project-management practices as needed, and for supporting the Managing Director in responses to CGEM and MPS leadership requirements.
• The Chief Engineer will lead innovative technical solutions for our sponsors by engaging with the independent research & development programs, MPS/CGEM strategic initiatives, and other programs aimed at driving high value/high impact outcomes.
• The Chief Engineer will also work with the Managing Director and department heads to build and oversee the division’s human capital and staffing strategy.
• Highly competitive candidates will bring an exceptionally strong and broad technical background, including demonstrated expertise and technical leadership in one or more of the primary areas through which we deliver expertise in: systems engineering; enterprise transformation and strategic program management; financial stability and security; financial systems, including currency; data architecture or solutions; enterprise IT systems and applications; enterprise level acquisition and program management; and/or economics and financial analysis.
• The selected candidate will serve as an integral member of the division’s leadership team and will be expected to work in partnership with other department and division leaders to guide our technical direction, ensure quality and impact of current direct work, shape the future of our work program, and support the growth of our workforce.
• The CE must be able to balance division responsibilities with direct work program commitments with a typical allocation of 10-20% coverage for CE responsibilities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Ability to receive a US Government Secret clearance; including eligibility for TS/SCI.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Technical Background:

• Strong technical grounding in one or more of the primary areas through which we deliver expertise in: systems engineering; enterprise transformation and strategic program management; financial stability and security; financial systems; data architecture or solutions; enterprise IT systems and applications; enterprise level acquisition and program management; and/or economic modeling and financial intelligence analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with all aspects of project leadership such as work shaping, staff planning and selection, recruiting, mentoring, budgeting, and reporting.
• Extensive domain knowledge relevant to our sponsors: financial systems and stability, including financial systems and payments technologies; cybersecurity; regulatory frameworks and processes; large-scale financial data management; and economic analysis.
• Solid understanding of Treasury, the Federal Reserve (and central banking), and/or major financial regulators, including their organizational constructs, priorities, and missions.
• Extensive experience translating operational mission needs into acquisition, technical, and programmatic requirements and aligning program elements to overarching mission.

Communication:

• Excellence in communicating complex sponsor needs, programmatic considerations, and operating concepts to interdisciplinary MITRE project teams (engineers, data scientists, computational modelers, and so on).
• Outstanding ability to work closely with government program managers, information managers, office directors, and research leads to identify key requirements and constraints, understand what “quality” looks like to sponsors, and elicit constructive feedback.
• Ability to assemble, integrate, and synthesize disparate elements or activities to explain how they contribute to support for a strategic mission objective or outcome, especially as TEC work program relates to priorities and needs of senior CGEM and MPS leadership.

Team-Building & Leadership:

• Highly collegial team player committed to the mission of our sponsors and the delivery of high-impact products across the TEC work program.
• Proven ability to build trust across technical teams through strong communication and collaborative practices.
• Ability to lead, nurture, and support technical talent development for our staff and teams.
• Ability to create win-win solutions with a positive “make it happen” attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret and or TS/SCI,
• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in engineering, computer science, engineering management, economics, finance, or other related field
• Deep knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Extensive domain knowledge relevant to our sponsors: financial systems and stability, including payments technologies; cybersecurity; regulatory frameworks and processes; large-scale financial data management; and economic analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strategic relationships with senior sponsors and convert those relationships into impactful outcomes on major initiatives, technical challenges, and priorities.
• Experience working with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and across the MITRE Corporation.

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):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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