Senior Mission Solutions Architect & Strategy Lead

MITRE; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE seeks a senior solution architect to lead complex mission engagements and translate needs into architecture strategies across platforms and secure compute environments. You will drive trade studies, shape reusable architectures, and guide cross-functional teams toward practical, secure mission capabilities.

This role requires strong stakeholder communication and the ability to influence at senior levels, with hybrid work and onsite expectations across multiple U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience in solution architecture and systems architecture.
• Ability to translate mission needs into architecture products and roadmaps.
• Experience leading complex projects and coordinating multidisciplinaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex customer and mission engagements to discover needs, frame problems, define objectives, and translate ambiguous requirements into architecture strategies, executable solution concepts, and phased delivery paths.
• Develop and lead solution-architecture discussions that map mission needs to platforms, access patterns, secure compute environments, data flows, tooling, policies, system-design options, and dependencies across related disciplines.
• Direct technical trade studies and synthesize multiple sources of information to resolve complex problems, identify innovative applications, and recommend decisions with long-term mission or service impact.
• Lead functional teams or complex projects with moderate resource requirements, risks, or complexity; establish technical objectives, coordinate multidisciplinary contributors, and guide execution without formal supervisory authority.
• Mature Mission Computing front-door and demand-discovery practices by identifying recurring patterns, portfolio-level gaps, priorities, resource needs, and opportunities to improve services, reusable architectures, and capability roadmaps.
• Establish and share best practices, reusable architecture patterns, customer guidance, service-catalog content, decision frameworks, and technical quality criteria; mentor staff and provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer within the job family.
• Serve as a trusted partner to mission teams and leadership; communicate complex concepts clearly, influence stakeholders around tradeoffs and recommended paths, and collaborate across platform teams, laboratories, Enterprise Technology, Information Security Services, engineering communities, and department and division leadership.

Skills

Solution architecture

Systems architecture

Requirements analysis

Mission needs translation

Platform integration

Cloud or hybrid platforms

Data workflows

DevSecOps

Stakeholder communication

Leadership without formal authority

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

MITRE seeks a senior solution architect to lead complex mission engagements and translate needs into architecture strategies across platforms and secure compute environments. You will drive trade studies, shape reusable architectures, and guide cross-functional teams toward practical, secure mission capabilities.

This role requires strong stakeholder communication and the ability to influence at senior levels, with hybrid work and onsite expectations across multiple U.S.