Lead Systems Engineer (Intelligence Center) Location Springfield, VA : Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us. Our Geospatial Intelligence team provides skills and capabilities to task, order, receive, process, disseminate, and exploit national, tactical, and commercial Intelligence within an integrated architecture in support of Geospatial Intelligence users. We support and enable the production of intelligence and situational awareness for national and warfighter security, targeting, command and control, and humanitarian aid. Our capabilities include requirements and mission workflow analysis for sensor platforms and ground systems, specialized computing platforms, architecture design and integration of data and systems in support of exploitation processes, advanced analytics, and integrated intelligence analysis from seabed to space.
: Are you interested in strengthening the bond between our FVEY International Partners and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)? Do you want to broaden your horizons by supporting the key GEOINT Partnership that Great Britain provides while learning new accents, phrases, culinary treats, and travel tips along the way? If so, please consider applying to this role.
MITRE is seeking a candidate to support multiple short and long-term engineering efforts in support of NGA's Partnership with the United Kingdom with potential for limited support to other international partners. The selected candidate will provide independent and unbiased technical support to the evaluation of US and partner solutions and make recommendations to ensure successful development, integration, testing, fielding, and operations of US and partner intelligence systems.
Candidates should demonstrate the ability to identify and communicate any changes on either side of the Partnership that have potential to impact the Partner's Ways of working (WoW), IT, or interfaces. This requires the ability to collate and present complex issues on a range of GEOINT solutions to US and partner system owners. Given the disconnected nature of this position from the partner, MITRE Engineering support will need to work independently but must also be able to make and maintain contacts throughout NGA, the Partner's equivalent Engineering support contractor, and their user base.
The chosen candidate will need to work as a team with other Partner support contractors and NGA Government personnel located both in the US and collocated with the partner.
This position is based in Springfield, VA, collocated with the Task Lead, with the expectation of travel to the United Kingdom up to twice per year as well as some CONUS trips. Basic Qualifications: Active TS/SCI clearance Due to the lengthy clearance process and our urgent need, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with CI or FS polygraph cannot be considered for this opening. Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or 3 years and a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Previous experience with NGA, NGA's Mission and or the IT employed to enable that Mission Preferred Qualifications: Highly qualified candidates would meet several of the following preferred qualifications, however, we do not expect any individual to meet all of them:
Understanding of NGA's Mission, from operations to the IT employed to enable mission success Knowledge of NGA programs of records and future changes that could impact the partner, specifically knowledge in the areas of Structured Observation Management (SOM), workflow management, Imagery Library architecture, cloud computing, big data analytics and 5 Eyes Enterprise (5EE) concepts is a significant plus Ability to break apart complex problems/ideas dealing with near-term or long-term interoperability and communicate solutions to both engineers and Senior Stakeholder representation from the Allied System for Geospatial (ASG) Intelligence Ability to work independently across multiple topic areas, given the disconnected nature of the task Promotion of GEOINT solutions that impact those areas of the partner's architecture that could provide direct benefit to the burden sharing relationship Willingness to travel to partner location when required (United Kingdom and/or other CONUS locations) Previous experience working with the FVEY Intelligence Community Understanding of US EXPORT/ITAR regulations Acquisition lifecycle and Requirements development Agile and Waterfall engineering development process experience 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):
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