Senior Principal Project Leader, Test and Evaluation Acceleratio Security Clearance

Position: Senior Principal Project Leader, Test and Evaluation Acceleratio with Security Clearance
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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. The Senior Principal Project Leader for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) Acceleration Platform reports directly to the Department Manager for Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight and works with sponsor Program Managers, MITRE project leaders, technical staff, and the Chief Scientist for Test and Evaluation to design and execute T&E activities across the Acceleration Platform's hybrid hosting environment.

The role provides hands-on leadership of both the shared evaluation infrastructure and the program-specific test activities conducted within it. This includes oversight of test architectures, data management, compute resources, and analytic pipelines across co-location, cloud, and on-prem environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and mission-aligned execution. At the same time, the Senior Principal Project Leader ensures that the T&E Acceleration Platform functions as a disciplined front door for rapid onboarding and evaluation of commercial and emerging technologies.

The role translates sponsor objectives into executable evaluation frameworks that inform transition decisions, reduce adoption risk, and strengthen evidence-based capability advancement across the Intelligence Community. By aligning test design to operational use cases, coordinating cross-program demonstration events, and synthesizing results into clear transition recommendations, the Senior Principal Project Leader reinforces MITRE's role as an independent, objective advisor on high-consequence technology adoption decisions.

Through close collaboration with Division Leadership, the Department Manager and Chief Scientist, the Senior Principal Project Leader ensures that the T&E Acceleration Platform operates as a reusable, mission-relevant evaluation backbone, integrating infrastructure discipline with accelerated transition impact across ODNI programs. This position is a deeply embedded technical leadership role focused on program execution excellence, analytic rigor, and mission impact. Applicants will establish regular presence at ODNI and MITRE locations supporting those organizations and must be available for short-notice travel as mission and organizational needs dictate.

Travel may be frequent, flexible, or extended.

Roles & Responsibilities :
Programmatic and Technical Leadership for the T&E Acceleration Platform
* Serve as the senior execution lead for the T&E Acceleration Platform build out and operation, ensuring disciplined delivery of evaluation activities across supported programs.

* Translate sponsor objectives into executable test strategies, resource plans, and integrated schedules aligned to mission timelines.

* Provide informed judgment on scope, sequencing, and execution tradeoffs to ensure high-quality, timely delivery of evaluation outcomes.

* Partner with the Department Manager and Chief Scientist Engineer to align execution discipline with methodological rigor and technical credibility.
Test and Evaluation Infrastructure and Execution
* Lead the execution of test and evaluation activities across the Platform's hybrid hosting environment, including co-location, cloud, and on-prem capabilities.

* Oversee development and integration of test architectures, data environments, analytic pipelines, and evaluation workflows.

* Coordinate cross-program demonstration events, pilots, and assessments to ensure secure, scalable, and mission-aligned execution.

* Ensure evaluation activities are operationally sound, relevant and directly responsive to sponsor decision needs.
Hybrid Environment Management
* Strong understanding of environment life cycles including processes for standing up and maintenance of cloud, on-prem, and co-location resources.

* Knowledge of cybersecurity and infosec policies, requirements, and monitoring tools to ensure security throughout the Platform.

* Understand networking and access requirements for diverse user groups with unique needs. Ensuring the accessibility and…