Senior Mission Solutions Architect

MITRE; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE is a nonprofit engineering, applied research and technology organization serving U.S. government agencies. We deliver high-impact solutions across national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services.

This role sits in Mission Computing, focusing on architecture, platform integration and secure computing for mission needs. You will translate customer requirements into concrete architectures, collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to reusable

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can contribute now.
• Experience applying solution architecture, systems architecture, requirements analysis, platform integration, secure computing, and data workflows.
• Experience engaging customers or mission stakeholders to translate needs into solution concepts, architecture products, implementation guidance, or roadmaps.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information, build consensus, and lead defined tasks or small technical efforts.
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required; Top Secret/SCI may be required within one year.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance; must be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Engage mission customers and internal stakeholders to understand objectives and translate needs into technical requirements and solution concepts.
• Develop and document solution architectures that map mission needs to platforms, access patterns, and secure compute environments.
• Produce actionable implementation guidance, backlog entries, architecture artifacts, and delivery roadmaps for platform teams.
• Independently evaluate solution alternatives and identify risks, gaps, and practical paths forward.
• Support and improve front-door, demand-discovery, onboarding, consulting, and feedback processes; share insights to improve services.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to mission teams and communicate complex concepts to peers and leadership.
• Collaborate with platform teams and communities to lead defined tasks and provide knowledge transfer.

Skills

Solution architecture

Requirements analysis

Platform integration

Cloud / Hybrid platforms

Customer engagement

Secure computing

Communication with leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

Mission Computing, L080, is a new division being established to accelerate how MITRE turns technical possibility into mission capability. We're bringing together supercomputing, AI services, secure lab and cloud infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling, all organized as a front-line function that shapes how teams across MITRE build, experiment, and deliver. The AI and Mission Enablement department is the applied AI and services adoption arm of Mission Computing. Its role is to make MITRE's AI and mission platform investments practical for mission work: giving staff usable paths to approved tools, workflows, reusable patterns, data integrations, development environments, hands‑on experimentation, and high‑touch technical support. The department helps teams move beyond isolated experiments into secure, repeatable ways of using platforms and computing environments in all aspects of their work.

As Mission Computing stands up, AI and Mission Enablement will sit between infrastructure and practice. The department will work with platform teams, mission users, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, Information Security Services, and AI communities across MITRE to standardize how capabilities are discovered, integrated, taught, supported, and scaled across approved data and security environments. Its work is to make AI and platforms easier to learn, easier to trust, easier to connect to MITRE workflows, and easier to apply responsibly to mission problems. Mission Solutions Architecture is the group that turns mission needs, customer demand, platform options, access pathways, and solution-design tradeoffs into executable architectures and delivery paths for a mission‑centric MITRE.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Engage mission customers and internal stakeholders to understand objectives, constraints, workflows, data, security context, and success criteria; translate ambiguous needs into clear technical requirements and solution concepts.
• Develop and document solution architectures that map mission needs to Mission Computing platforms, access patterns, secure compute environments, data flows, developer tooling, policies, and system-design options.
• Produce actionable implementation guidance, descriptive backlog entries, architecture artifacts, decision records, and delivery roadmaps for platform, infrastructure, capability, and service teams.
• Independently evaluate solution alternatives and technical tradeoffs using multiple sources of information; identify risks, dependencies, gaps, and practical paths forward.
• Support and improve front-door, demand-discovery, onboarding, consulting, and feedback processes; identify recurring customer patterns and share insights that improve services and adoption pathways.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to mission teams by helping users discover and navigate approved capabilities, access processes, constraints, and support models; communicate complex concepts and build consensus among peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, Information Security Services, software, data, and systems engineering communities, and technical leadership; lead defined technical tasks or small efforts and provide knowledge transfer and informal guidance as appropriate.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience applying solution architecture, systems architecture, requirements analysis, mission needs translation, platform integration, secure computing, access patterns, data workflows, cloud or hybrid platforms, developer tooling, mission computing, or related technical practices.
• Experience engaging customers or mission stakeholders to understand needs and independently translate them into solution concepts, architecture products, implementation guidance, backlog entries, or delivery roadmaps.
• Experience evaluating technical options and tradeoffs, analyzing information from multiple sources, and identifying risks, dependencies, and practical solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information, build consensus, and collaborate with technical users, project leaders, platform teams, Enterprise Technology partners, security or compliance stakeholders, and senior leadership; ability to lead defined tasks or small technical efforts as needed.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance within one year of hire. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week on-site in McLean, VA; Bedford, MA; Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA; Omaha, NE; Ft. Meade, MD; Charlottesville, VA; or Los Angeles, CA and travel up to 5%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience performing customer-facing solution architecture, technical consulting, requirements discovery, platform intake, or capability adoption for mission, engineering, analytic, infrastructure, or enterprise technology users.
• Experience translating ambiguous customer needs into solution concepts, system-design options, access patterns, implementation instructions, backlog entries, roadmaps, or delivery plans for technical teams.
• Experience working across on-prem, hybrid, cloud, CUI-capable, classified-adjacent, laboratory, or other controlled computing environments to help users identify appropriate platforms, workflows, and support models.
• Experience integrating mission needs with software delivery, DevSecOps, data platforms, analytics, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, knowledge management, secure compute, or mission workflow platforms.
• Experience supporting technical front-door, intake, demand-discovery, onboarding, consulting, office hours, training, community engagement, or feedback-loop mechanisms for internal customers.
• Experience navigating organizational policies, information security requirements, access processes, platform constraints, and technical tradeoffs to help customers move from need identification to executable implementation.
• Experience developing customer-facing guidance, engagement playbooks, communicator materials, reusable architecture patterns, service catalogs, or other resources that make technical capabilities easier to discover, understand, and use.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.

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

None

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint

$121,200 - $151,500 - $181,800 Annual

Work Location Type

Onsite

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