Technical Evaluation Framework Lead (Intelligence Center)

About the role

MITRE’s National Intelligence Division is seeking a Technical Evaluation Framework Lead to provide senior-level technical leadership supporting an Intelligence Community sponsor responsible for a complex national security mission. This role will be embedded on-site with the sponsor in McLean, Virginia, and will lead the development, implementation, and application of a comprehensive Technical Evaluation Framework for assessing the mission utility, technical value, and effectiveness of existing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of a repeatable Technical Evaluation Framework for assessing the mission utility, technical value, and effectiveness of existing and emerging technologies.
• Develop technical evaluation metrics, benchmarks, scoring criteria, and decision models that enable consistent, evidence-based comparison of technologies across mission, technical, and operational dimensions.
• Conduct and lead technology assessments, analyze alignment to mission and strategic objectives, and develop recommendations for improvement, sustainment, retirement, consolidation, or further investment.
• Assess technology, data, analytics, and integration environments to identify capability gaps, redundancies, dependencies, risks, and opportunities to improve mission effectiveness and enterprise interoperability.
• Mature technical evaluation practices through development of frameworks, models, policies, processes, standards, requirements, and repeatable governance methods.
• Develop executive decision-support products for senior technology governance forums, including assessment reports, briefing materials, decision matrices, prioritization frameworks, and technology-planning recommendations.
• Establish and maintain a reusable repository of technology evaluations, metrics, benchmarks, findings, and supporting evidence while coordinating assessments across government, MITRE, and contractor subject-matter experts.

Requirements

• Typically requires a 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 an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Significant experience in systems engineering, technology assessment, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or technology portfolio management within the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or other national security environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying structured technical evaluation frameworks, metrics, benchmarks, scoring models, or decision criteria to compare technologies and inform investment or portfolio decisions.
• Experience assessing technology utility, value, and effectiveness using quantitative and qualitative evidence, including evaluation of mission alignment, performance, maturity, interoperability, dependencies, risk, and operational fit.
• Strong understanding of technology lifecycles, enterprise systems integration, data and analytics environments, software and infrastructure architectures, and the relationships between technical capabilities and mission workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to translate mission and strategic objectives into measurable technical evaluation criteria and actionable recommendations for technology improvement, sustainment, retirement, consolidation, or further investment.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical assessments and facilitating collaboration across government, engineering, mission, data, analytics, acquisition, and contractor stakeholders.
• Strong analytic and decision-support skills, including the ability to synthesize complex technical evidence, identify tradeoffs and dependencies, and produce defensible conclusions and executive-level recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing technical assessment reports, decision-support products, and briefings for SES-level or equivalent senior government leaders.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph; U.S. citizenship is required for security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting counterterrorism, national intelligence, or other mission-center environments where technology decisions directly affect operational mission outcomes.
• Experience supporting technology governance boards, architecture review boards, investment councils, or other senior decision forums responsible for technology prioritization and resource allocation.
• Experience with formal decision-analysis or systems-engineering methods such as trade studies, multi-criteria decision analysis, value engineering, technology readiness assessments, capability assessments, or portfolio optimization.
• Broad technical familiarity with enterprise data platforms, analytic environments, cloud and infrastructure services, software systems, AI-enabled capabilities, cybersecurity considerations, and integration technologies.
• Experience developing repositories, databases, dashboards, or other structured mechanisms for capturing evaluation results, metrics, benchmarks, evidence, and technology portfolio insights over time.
• Experience serving as a trusted technical advisor in an FFRDC, government, or similar objective advisory environment, with the ability to build consensus across senior mission and technical stakeholders.

Clearance

• This position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• The hired candidate must obtain or maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph within one year from the date of hire.

Pay

Salary compensation range and midpoint: $146,400 – $183,000 – $219,600

Schedule

Onsite, 5 days per week in McLean, Virginia; approximately 80–100% on-site support required.