Senior Mission Solutions Architect—AI Platforms & Security

MITRE; Bedford (MA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in Bedford, MA is seeking a seasoned Mission Computing Architect to translate mission needs into executable architectures across platforms, data flows, secure compute environments, and developer tooling.

You will collaborate with platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, and security to deliver guidance, roadmaps, reusable patterns, and actionable delivery paths that enable secure, scalable mission work.

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.
• Experience applying solution and systems architecture, requirements analysis, platform integration, secure computing, cloud or hybrid platforms.
• Experience engaging customers or mission stakeholders to translate needs into solution concepts, architecture products, and delivery roadmaps.
• Experience evaluating technical options, risks, dependencies, and practical solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information and to lead tasks or small technical efforts; eligible for TS/SCI clearance within one year.

Responsibilities

• Engage mission customers and internal stakeholders to understand objectives, constraints, workflows, data, security context, and success criteria.
• Develop and document solution architectures mapping mission needs to platforms, access patterns, and secure compute environments.
• Produce actionable implementation guidance, backlog entries, architecture artifacts, and delivery roadmaps.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and identify risks, dependencies, gaps, and practical paths forward.
• Support onboarding, consulting, and feedback processes; share insights to improve services and adoption pathways.
• Collaborate with platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, Information Security Services, software, data, and systems engineering communities.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Problem solving

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

MITRE in Bedford, MA is seeking a seasoned Mission Computing Architect to translate mission needs into executable architectures across platforms, data flows, secure compute environments, and developer tooling.

You will collaborate with platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, and security to deliver guidance, roadmaps, reusable patterns, and actionable delivery paths that enable secure, scalable mission work.