Project Leader (Intelligence Center)

About the role

MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) is seeking a Project Leader within the Field Services Department of the Domestic Security & Strategic Intelligence (DSSI) Division. The Field Services Department delivers innovative solutions and brings a multidisciplinary approach to sponsor challenges critical to national security, focusing on:

• Law enforcement
• Analytics
• Data strategy & management
• Investigative operations
• Prototyping
• Biometrics
• Mission solutions

The Project Lead will serve as the first-line business leader for a project within the Department of Justice (DOJ) work program, ensuring execution, delivery, and success. This role maintains MITRE’s impartiality by assessing biometric image quality devices, enabling DOJ certification without product endorsement. The project also addresses operational challenges, technological changes, and emerging technologies impacting DOJ processes and data quality standards.

The primary responsibilities of this position must be carried out, at least 50%, in person in Clarksburg, WV. The selected candidate will establish an intermittent presence at sponsor sites and MITRE locations, with availability for short-notice travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership as a trusted advisor to the DOJ Sponsor, shaping project tasks.
• Shape and execute technical objectives based on DOJ outcomes, leveraging MITRE’s capabilities for maximum impact.
• Drive project strategy to shape current and future outcomes and products.
• Identify and leverage research efforts from across MITRE, including internal innovation programs, to benefit project efforts.
• Ensure technical quality of products and recommendations through reviews, peer feedback, and knowledge management.
• Engage with DOJ leadership, government task managers, contracting officers, and personnel.
• Partner with MITRE’s business and staff resourcing organizations to develop mission engineering strategy and staff the project.
• Handle project administration: Clarity, financials, project pages, meeting coordination, status reports, facility management, and task management.
• Manage staff onboarding, clearances, access requests, accounts, and self-reporting forms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years with a Master’s degree; or 3 years with a PhD; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Experience with project leadership in a technical, operational, or national security environment.
• Demonstrated ability to meet cost, schedule, performance, and quality metrics across complex technical efforts.
• Ability to support key DOJ program engagements, including on-site presence up to once per month.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across a complex national security environment.
• Ability to develop a trusted advisor relationship with a DOJ/government sponsor.
• Ability to obtain accounts on sponsor’s unclassified and classified networks.
• Proactive in seeking collaboration opportunities across MITRE to maximize impact.
• Strong organizational skills to keep the project well-scoped and objectives-driven.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills for sponsor and internal audiences.
• Active Secret security clearance (U.S. Citizenship required for clearance eligibility).
• Minimum of 50% hybrid on-site work in Clarksburg, WV.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience with optics and image processing.
• Experience with statistical assessments validating national security standards.
• Master’s degree in national security, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, mathematics, or a related field.

Pay

Salary compensation range: $146,400 – $219,600 (midpoint: $183,000) annually.

Schedule

Hybrid work location type, with a minimum of 50% on-site presence in Clarksburg, WV.