MDA Sensors and C4ISR Group Leader - Colorado Springs, United States - MITRE

Description

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

MITRE's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Program Division seeks a MITRE staff member with a passion for leading and managing staff to join the N MDA Sensors and C4ISR Department leadership team. N provides technical support to MITRE's MDA Program across the Ground Sensors, Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), Space Systems, Cyber Security, and Advanced Development domains.

N Group Leaders (aka direct supervisors) focus on retaining, recruiting, and growing geographically distributed talented staff; ensuring quality delivery to the MDA Program Division; and accomplishing Division and Department strategic initiatives. N's average Group size is 6. This position is open to qualified lead step and above applicants.

The job is a Lead Step, Huntsville, AL-based or Colorado Springs, CO-based, position; this work location is required to effectively foster staff relationships and shape the work program.

Job Responsibilities:

• Department and staff engagement – serve as a direct supervisor for assigned staff providing technical support, conduct regular performance and development conversations, mentor and advocate for staff and provide recognition, guidance, and advice
• Communicate with project / task leads on staff performance, assess staff performance, and provide constructive feedback on a regular basis
• Technical quality / execution / capability development – assist department management and the leadership team in workforce shaping, work program development, maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities
• Support department and division operations functions as requested by department manager.
• Develop a deep understanding of Department and Division capabilities. Seek to integrate this group's capabilities with those of other Division groups, for example advanced analytic modeling, simulation-based design, and problem visualization, to deliver solutions which incorporate multiple group capabilities
• Recruiting - Hire employees to grow team capacity and capabilities
• Collaboration and communication – support regular communication between staff and project / task leaders; serve as a proactive liaison between staff and department / senior management, seek opportunities to collaborate across portfolios and facilitate open sharing of program and/or technical area knowledge with other managers and staff
• Contribute to the technical work program. In addition to their management responsibilities, group leaders are expected to provide technical contributions to direct sponsor projects or research projects
• Facilitate professional development through leadership, coaching, mentoring, and communication.
• Provide timely recognition of exceptional behavior and performance resulting in significant impact.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 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 equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Active SECRET clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI
• 8 + years of experience in developing and evolving enterprise technical capabilities and defense programs through the practical application of systems architecting and/or systems engineering best practices
• Demonstrated ability to define complex projects or programs and derive sequence of tasks from those projects.
• Candidate understands that he/she will be responsible for work and/or customer relationship development and will act according to—and guide others toward—the proper balance of a) product depth with timeliness and b) technical improvements with programmatic constraints, even when hard compromises are required
• Strong desire to invest in others' success
• Aptitude to act with discretion, while knowing when to engage higher-level management
• Capacity to deliver timely and constructive feedback
• Mentorship mindset
• Robust leadership, collaboration, and interpersonal skill set
• Ability to support decisions
• Working understanding of the MDA Work Program
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of two years' experience in personnel supervision or in orchestrating large teams/groups in task completion
• Experience leading or managing geographically dispersed groups
• Experience working with distributed teams across a variety of technical and work areas
• Technical expertise in a relevant domain
• Known as a team player
• Currently supporting C2BMC work programs
• Recognized as a thought leader and one who dynamically executes leadership and consensus decisions
• Active TS/SCI or above DoD Clearance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

Work Location Type:

MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website and .

MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE's employment process, please email

Copyright 4, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.