{"id":4001718,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mitre-associate-project-leader-naval-digital-infrastructure-services","title":"Associate Project Leader, Naval Digital Infrastructure & Services","company":{"id":37980,"name":"MITRE","domain":"mitre.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/mitre","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Phenom","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["McLean, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":162400,"max":203000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":203000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T03:49:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T03:49:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.The MITRE Expeditionary and Asymmetric Operations Department (N233) is seeking a strategic, technically accomplished, and sponsor-focused Naval Digital Infrastructure & Services Associate Project Leader. The selected candidate will serve as deputy to the Project Leader for an approximately 26-FTE work program in FY2027 supporting the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Mission Systems (PAE MS), Digital Infrastructure & Services Portfolio. The project comprises three separate but related tasks: Naval Enterprise Networks (NEN), Marine Corps Enterprise Networks (MCEN), and Manpower IT Systems Modernization (MITSM).\nThe Associate Project Leader will support the Project Leader in shaping and executing the work program, integrating outcomes across the three tasks, coordinating major strategic and operational activities, and ensuring disciplined delivery of MITRE’s commitments. The Associate Project Leader will maintain continuity of leadership across the project and will function as the Project Leader when the Project Leader is unavailable or when authority is otherwise delegated.\nThe Associate Project Leader will play a critical role in strengthening MITRE’s position as a trusted partner in naval digital modernization, enterprise network and service delivery, secure data architecture and resilience, and manpower IT modernization. The position will help align MITRE’s defense acquisition, systems engineering, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, architecture, data analytics, and artificial intelligence expertise with sponsor priorities to deliver robust mission outcomes for PAE MS and its Navy and Marine Corps warfighting customers.\nAs a senior member of the N233 project leadership team, the Associate Project Leader will collaborate closely with the Project Leader, NEN, MCEN, and MITSM Task Leaders, department and division leadership, technical leaders, people leaders, and geographically distributed staff across the corporation. The selected candidate will help integrate project outcomes, resolve cross-task dependencies, align staffing and resources, monitor project health, and ensure that MITRE brings an objective, technically rigorous Federally Funded Research and Development Center perspective to the sponsor’s most consequential challenges. The role requires a leader who can move effectively between sponsor-facing strategy and detailed project execution, exercise sound independent judgment, and credibly represent the project with senior internal and external stakeholders.\nRoles & Responsibilities\nServe as deputy and principal advisor to the Naval Digital Infrastructure & Services Project Leader. Support the Project Leader in setting project direction, shaping the work program, managing sponsor relationships, integrating technical outcomes, and executing the project’s strategic and operational priorities.\nFunction as the Project Leader during the Project Leader’s absence or when authority is delegated. Maintain continuity of project leadership and exercise appropriate authority for sponsor engagement, project decisions, risk escalation, staffing coordination, financial oversight, technical delivery, and communication with department and division leadership.\nSupport strategic, technical, acquisition, and operational leadership for the Digital Infrastructure & Services project, helping integrate NEN, MCEN, and MITSM into a coherent work program aligned with PAE MS priorities and warfighter needs.\nMaintain a deep understanding of PAE MS’s mission, portfolio structure, acquisition environment, technical priorities, and customer needs, including the relationships among enterprise networks, digital services, data, cybersecurity, manpower systems, and operational readiness.\nWork alongside the Project Leader and senior Navy and Marine Corps sponsors to identify the right problems, define desired outcomes, shape project tasks, and establish technically sound deliverables that create measurable mission impact. Independently lead sponsor engagements and project activities when assigned or delegated by the Project Leader.\nCoordinate execution through the NEN, MCEN, and MITSM Task Leaders. Help establish cross-project priorities; synchronize outcomes, staffing, budgets, schedules, and shared technical resources; manage dependencies; track commitments; and ensure timely resolution of issues affecting integrated delivery.\nLead cross-cutting initiatives, planning activities, technical reviews, project execution reviews, and special assignments that span multiple tasks or require coordinated action across the project. Ensure decisions, action items, dependencies, and risks are documented, assigned, and carried through to closure.\nConnect technical products and recommendations to acquisition decisions, investment priorities, portfolio governance, and operational effects. Help ensure clear and consistent communication of project status, findings, risks, recommendations, decisions needed, and emerging opportunities.\nDevelop and sustain trusted relationships with senior military and civilian sponsors, program managers, technical directors, and other stakeholders. Represent the project in sponsor and MITRE leadership forums and provide an informed, integrated project perspective.\nSupport the Project Leader in building, leading, and shaping a cohesive, geographically distributed, multidisciplinary team of approximately 26 FTEs. Reinforce clear expectations for Task Leaders and staff regarding roles, sponsor engagement, technical quality, deliverable content, schedules, collaboration, and professional development.\nCoordinate with Task Leaders and people leaders to understand skill demand, define resource requests, assign staff with the appropriate skills and development needs, balance resources across tasks, address staffing gaps, and maintain accurate staffing plans and forecasts.\nPartner with the Department Chief Engineer and other technical leaders to ensure project approaches, technical reviews, and deliverables are objective, data-driven, traceable, technically rigorous, and consistent with MITRE quality standards.\nLeverage MITRE’s enterprise-wide projects, technical expertise, laboratories, independent research, and bodies of knowledge. Engage industry, academia, government laboratories, other FFRDCs, and external partners when doing so accelerates sponsor outcomes or strengthens the project’s technical foundation.\nSupport delivery of high-quality technical products and actionable recommendations on time and within budget. Monitor execution across the three tasks, identify emerging risks and performance concerns, develop mitigation plans with the appropriate leaders, and help ensure the project meets contractual commitments for cost, schedule, and performance.\nPerform and oversee project administration, contract and task-order management, staffing forecasts, budget development, financial planning, risk management, performance monitoring, and project reporting. Support program execution reviews and provide the Project Leader and MITRE leadership with accurate, timely insight into project health, outcomes, risks, and decisions requiring attention.\nProvide timely performance observations and feedback to staff and their people leaders. Support effective onboarding, staff development, succession planning, and the development of future Task Leaders and project leaders. Foster a collaborative, adaptable, respectful, accountable, and high-performing project environment.\nSupport the Project Leader in anticipating emerging PAE MS needs, shaping future work, connecting sponsor challenges with MITRE capabilities, and developing enduring FFRDC opportunities that create meaningful impact for PAE MS and its warfighting customers.\nBasic Qualifications\nTypically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.\nBachelor’s degree in systems engineering, engineering, computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, data science, operations research, business or acquisition management, or a related technical field.\nDemonstrated Department of War acquisition experience, including work with acquisition organizations and technical stakeholders to translate mission needs into acquisition strategies, requirements, architectures, technical plans, investment decisions, or other decision-quality recommendations.\nDemonstrated systems engineering experience across complex programs or enterprises, including requirements analysis, architecture, integration, technical risk management, trade-space analysis, and development of technically rigorous recommendations for senior decision-makers.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex, multifaceted technical projects, major workstreams, or work programs with multiple concurrent tasks, multidisciplinary teams, interdependent outcomes, and significant sponsor visibility. This includes experience managing or directly supporting the management of project scope, schedule, staffing, technical quality, risk, budget, contractual commitments, and sponsor expectations.\nDemonstrated ability to serve as a trusted deputy or delegated leader, exercise sound judgment on behalf of a senior project or program leader, maintain continuity of operations, and assume broader project leadership responsibilities when required.\nExperience coordinating execution through Task Leaders, workstream leads, technical leads, or other subordinate or peer leaders. Demonstrated ability to integrate activities across organizational boundaries, resolve competing priorities, manage dependencies, and drive commitments to closure.\nKnowledge of enterprise IT and digital infrastructure and services, including one or more of the following: enterprise networks, cloud or platform services, cybersecurity, data architecture and governance, digital service delivery, enterprise applications, or IT modernization.\nExperience partnering with senior military and civilian leaders to identify mission needs, shape work, define outcomes, and deliver technical products or recommendations that support acquisition, portfolio, or operational decisions.\nExperience supporting project operations, including staffing and resource planning, budget or financial management, schedule and milestone management, risk and issue management, performance monitoring, contract or task-order execution, and leadership reporting.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical, acquisition, and project execution matters to senior leaders and stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise.\nDemonstrated ability to build trusted sponsor relationships, lead geographically distributed teams, collaborate across organizational boundaries, handle sensitive or consequential issues with discretion, and represent a senior leader or project organization credibly.\nThis position is based in Quantico, Virginia, with McLean, Virginia, as an alternate work location. 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