Joint & Services Center Chief Engineer - Security Clearance Required

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The Joint and Services (J&S) Center delivers mission-critical capabilities to solve critical problems across the full DoD operating lifecycle – from focused Science & Technology development of transformational technologies to their transition through core systems engineering leadership within major acquisition programs to the integration of these interoperable solutions into dynamic operating environments. The J&S Center Chief Engineer (CCE) is a deep technical leader with a proven track record of developing joint-program strategies and contributing across this lifecycle to produce innovative and high-impact solutions to a broad range of pacing mission challenges.

Job Description:

The J&S CCE works in partnership with the J&S Vice President and Managing Directors and their Division Chief Engineers to shape the right work that contributes to achieving the priority objectives of Center/Sector/Corporate strategies. The CCE ensures the work is done right by promoting practices to assess and continually improve technical quality in partnership with Chief Engineers across the J&S Center and MITRE. The CCE collaborates with counterparts across MITRE to promote, develop, and leverage MITRE platforms and technical capabilities. Given the span and complexity of the J&S mission/sponsor space, it is particularly important for the CCE to be a catalyst for cross-cutting integration and innovation working in close partnership with the MNS Cross-Cutting Priority Outcome leads and with the MITRE Innovation program IALs to bring the best in solutions and value for J&S sponsors.

Essential Job Functions:

Strategy Development and Execution

• Lead J&S Center program development and special initiative (PDSI) investment decisions in collaboration with the J&S VP and division leaders to achieve the objectives of Division/Center strategies

• Drive crosscutting solutions through participation in NSEC Capstone and MNS/crosscutting Program Development/ Special Initiative investment decisions to achieve the objectives of NSEC/Sector/MITRE priority strategies

• Drive innovative and disruptive solutions through the generation of a strong demand signal to shape the MITRE Innovation Program (MIP) strategies. Assure NSEC IR&D transitions high impact research results to NSEC sponsors

• Drive development of technical and program capabilities, including identifying new areas to develop and areas to shape out of, and help determine MITRE’s technical and program strengths and weaknesses. Includes strategic planning around the technical and program strategy such as guiding investments or input into platforms across MITRE

Technical Quality

• Create, implement, and execute a Center-wide technical quality and learning culture that continually strengthens technical quality in partnership with other counterparts across MITRE

• Independently review, assess, shape, and potentially stop delivery of critical products

• 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

Mission Impact

• Drive MITRE and the sponsor/partner to new heights of mission impact with urgency

• Ensure that individual projects are driving change at a technical and mission level

• Provide input into Mission Value Chains (MVCs) at the appropriate organizational level while partnering with project leaders to ensure the project itself is poised for success at inception

• Enhance MITRE’s external brand and achieve broader impact in key external communities

Staff Development

• Lead the J&S Engineering Council consisting of Chief Engineers across the J&S Center

• Mentor staff and leaders, and be able, as needed, to supervise senior principal technical staff as a work leader or direct supervisor

• Contribute to staff development, talent assessment, and planning (hiring, mentoring, and training needs), including senior staff across Centers

• Participate in defining desired culture across MITRE and the development of cultural initiatives to meet the desired culture

Partnership and Initiatives

• Identify crosscutting mission outcomes across divisions, centers, and sectors and drive increases in effectiveness and efficiency through strategic coordination and joint execution

• Create a professional network with peers across industry, FFRDCs, UARCs, National Labs, and academia to create opportunities for increased impact through partnerships

• Lead cross-organizational strategic and technical initiatives with notable complexity, potentially involving visibility with MITRE’s Board of Trustees

• Partner with J&S Operations Director to measure performance against strategic objectives

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM domain; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 10 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• A minimum of 10 years of leadership experience leading teams in technical domains.

• Leadership experience at the senior staff level within a division or center level and with proven track record of technical leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to build and shape a technical work program through collaborative and effective partnership with other divisions, and MITRE Labs

• Enterprise or systems engineering experience, especially owning the technical baseline and model-based systems engineering.

• Knowledge of systems integration and its complexities

• Active Top-Secret Clearance with ability to receive an SCI.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of related experience with at least a Master’s within a relevant technical domain (STEM).

• Demonstrated technical leadership in relevant technical domains with a national reputation in at least one critical capability area (Command and Control, Architecture Development and Modeling/Simulation, ISR, Sensing, Radar Systems, Communication Systems, Networking and Communications)

• Past or present service on technical or science advisory boards

• Leadership of high-level red/blue teams and other independent technical/program assessments

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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