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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.Department Summary:\nThe Warfighting Software Systems Integration & Experimentation department develops, integrates, and evaluates software-intensive systems that enable mission capabilities across joint, cyber, space, naval, and air warfighting environments. The department applies software engineering practices, in conjunction with systems integration, cybersecurity, digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational experimentation across the diverse Department of War (DoW) work programs to improve capability effectiveness, resiliency, and mission readiness.\nThe successful candidate will work with our partners in MITRE’s Army Division in Aberdeen to enable the successful development, experimentation, integration, and fielding of the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2).\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nCollaborate with government and industry stakeholders to ensure successful development, testing, and fielding of innovative Command and Control (C2) solutions including software, data integration, and capability integration areas such as fires, sensors, and autonomy.\nInterface with Army units to understand operational needs, assess challenges, and rapidly identify, analyze, and recommend effective technical solutions.\nServe as a primary customer interface, maintaining strong communication with government leads to identifying emerging needs, providing regular status updates, and ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.\nProactively identify opportunities to accelerate delivery, improve efficiency, and mitigate programmatic and technical risks throughout execution.\nEnsure the rapid, timely, and high-quality delivery of technical products, solutions, and capabilities to customers.\nBuild, lead, and mentor small engineering teams, including directing the work of a 5-person team to achieve program objectives and customer outcomes.\nReport status, opportunities, and challenges to internal management\nManage task budget while meeting customer outcomes\nBasic Qualifications:\nTypically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.\nProficiency in Java and/or Python, with experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.\nExperience using Git for version control, including GitLab/GitHub workflows, branching strategies, or collaborative development practices.\nHands-on experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, or similar, and proficiency working in both Windows and Linux environments.\nExperience with containerized and cloud-native application delivery using Docker and Kubernetes, including container/image management and cluster orchestration.\nKnowledge of microservices architecture and command-and-control system architectures, with familiarity in one or more military data standards/protocols such as VMF, USMTF, CoT, or Link 16/JREAP.\nExperience operating in secure government/DoD environments, including RMF, STIG compliance, PKI/CAC authentication, or Agile/Scrum development within a program of record or government contract setting.\nTrack record of developing innovative technical solutions\nAbility to clearly communicate with both internal and external audiences\nMust have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.\nThis position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with data engineering and pipeline technologies, including Apache NiFi for ingestion, routing, and transformation, Apache Kafka for real-time/event-driven streaming, and data modeling, mapping, and schema design.\nDemonstrated ability to lead an engineering team and a track record of exceptional performance in fast paced environments\nSuccessful track record of relationship development with customers\nFamiliarity with Army and Joint DoW platforms (e.g., vehicles), radios, data sources, data standards, C2 software, hardware, edge compute, and capability integration.\nExperience with modern service development practices, including Swagger/OpenAPI code generation, Protocol Buffers (protobuf), and gRPC service development.\nExperience designing and optimizing data solutions, including ETL pipelines, relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle, and NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch.\nFamiliarity with DevSecOps and infrastructure automation tools, including Helm, CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible and Terraform, and working in air-gapped or classified environments with Iron Bank hardened container images.\nMaster’s degree in a relevant field\nActive Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. 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