Senior Mission Solutions Architect AI Platform Enablement

Mitre Corporation; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in Bedford, MA is seeking a Senior Mission Solutions Architect to act as a technical individual contributor and front‑door partner between mission teams and Mission Computing capabilities. You will shape solution architectures, translate customer needs, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide delivery paths with stakeholders across MITRE.

The role requires 5+ years of related experience (or equivalent), a Bachelor’s degree, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 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; 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 Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. 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 minimum 3 days per‑week on‑site presence in McLean, VA or Bedford, MA and travel up to 5%.

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.

Skills

Solution architecture

Customer engagement

Cloud/hybrid platforms

Security clearance

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

MITRE in Bedford, MA is seeking a Senior Mission Solutions Architect to act as a technical individual contributor and front‑door partner between mission teams and Mission Computing capabilities. You will shape solution architectures, translate customer needs, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide delivery paths with stakeholders across MITRE.

The role requires 5+ years of related experience (or equivalent), a Bachelor’s degree, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.