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The MITRE Corporation Principal Systems Engineering Group Leader in McLean, Virginia

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.

Department Summary:

Systems modeling and analysis is a crucial process in systems engineering that involves creating and integrating abstract models of complex systems to understand, analyze, and predict system behaviors under various conditions. It is fundamental in designing and improving systems across diverse domains, including engineering, software development, business process management, and environmental studies. In the Systems Modeling and Analysis Department (L143), we leverage our deep multi-disciplinary engineering expertise to create and integrate abstract models of complex mission scenarios and systems to understand, analyze, and predict operational and functional behaviors under various conditions. These models can then be used to highlight critical gaps between mission needs and system performance, improving our sponsor decision making process. We advocate for and use a digital engineering approach to educate our sponsors about the benefits and importance of digital adoption to enhance the access, management, analysis, and distribution of critical engineering information from a common set of digital engineering artifacts over the course of the mission and/or systems life cycle.

Job Description:

  • Serve as a direct supervisor for assigned staff conducting administrative activities such as timecard approvals, identification of coverage for staff, conducting regular performance and development conversations, mentoring and advocating for staff, and ensuring staff are in compliance with corporate policies and training requirements.

  • Communicate with project or task leads on staff performance, assess staff performance, and provide constructive feedback on a regular basis.

  • Assist department leadership team in workforce shaping, work program development, and maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities.

  • Support department and division operations as requested by department manager.

  • Collaborate across L140 driving a culture of technical inclusion and diversity demonstrating the interdependencies between MBSE and analytic modeling, simulation-based design, and operations research.

  • Identify skill gaps in L143 staff and partner with HR to hire resources as necessary.

  • Participate in regular communication/meetings with L143 senior leadership.

  • Contribute to the technical work program(s) by being a technical contributor and/or leadership role on direct or indirect projects.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BS in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant technical discipline

  • 10 + years of developing and evolving enterprise information environments through the practical application of systems modeling and analysis and/or systems engineering best practices.

  • Active Secret (or higher level) clearance

  • Strong verbal and written communications skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively establish and maintain partnerships with internal and external sponsors

  • Desire for personnel leadership / management roles.

  • Experience with team management in a technical environment

  • Broad knowledge of MITRE’s work and demonstrates an established network across MITRE programs and/or technical centers

  • Candidate’s residence is hybrid, resident, or co-located

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MS or PhD in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant technical discipline

  • Active Top Secret clearance (or higher)

  • Experience in project or task leadership providing performance feedback annually about their staff

  • Experience in mentoring peers in the topic of digital engineering, digital transformation, MBSE, and other systems analysis techniques

  • Recognized as a SME in the domain of MBSE

  • Candidate’s residence is hybrid, resident, or co-located

  • Candidate is in McLean, VA or Huntsville, AL

    This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

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

Top Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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