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  • New Bedford, MA

Responsibilities

  • Translate a sponsor’s data mesh vision into technical roadmaps, prototypes, and production capabilities across data products, security, and analytics.
  • Design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, and operate enterprise data architectures and resilient cloud and distributed software capabilities.
  • Establish repeatable deployment patterns, automated infrastructure provisioning, integration pipelines, and implementation guidance.
  • Integrate identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability management, monitoring, and security authorization evidence into the software lifecycle.
  • Enable secure analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities through governed data products and cloud-based tools and services.
  • Implement data ownership, discoverability, metadata, provenance, quality, and access policies for responsible data use and governance.
  • Lead cross-functional engineering teams, mentor technical staff, and coordinate with sponsors, mission partners, security authorities, and technology providers.
  • Communicate technical options, delivery progress, risks, and investment priorities to technical and executive audiences.
  • Develop technical approaches and proposals and contribute to business development and department innovation.

Requirements

  • Typically requires 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8 years with a master’s degree, 5 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Experience delivering complex cloud platforms or distributed software systems through implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
  • Experience translating architectures or mission concepts into actionable engineering plans and delivered capabilities.
  • Experience leading software or systems engineering teams across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder organizations.
  • Strong understanding of cloud and distributed systems principles, including service interfaces, automation, resilience, scalability, observability, and secure operations.
  • Experience incorporating security engineering into cloud platform delivery, including vulnerability management, access controls, data protection, and organizational or government security requirements.
  • Familiarity with enterprise data architecture and data mesh concepts, including domain-oriented data products, interoperability, shared platform services, and federated governance.
  • Familiarity with AI and machine learning services and the supporting data, integration, and security capabilities.
  • Ability to communicate with senior leaders, explain technical tradeoffs, and align engineering execution with mission priorities.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph U.S. Government-issued security clearance is required.
  • U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with large distributed cloud environments, classified or air-gapped environments, enterprise data platforms, engineering organizations, vulnerability management, federal cloud authorization, reusable secure delivery patterns, AWS and other cloud or private-cloud platforms, senior government stakeholders, and technical proposals.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits and meaningful career development are offered.
  • The position is onsite and requires a minimum of three days per week onsite.

Salary: $173k - $260k/yr

MITRE

MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defe...

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