Department Chief Engineer - Federal-State Partnerships

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MITRE's CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC (Health FFRDC) is looking for a department chief engineer (CE) to join our leadership team at MITRE's McLean, VA or Baltimore, MD locations.

Roles & Responsibilities

The department CE works in partnership with the department manager to ensure execution of a high-impact, high-quality technical work program that achieves the mission-critical outcomes of the department's sponsors. The department CE makes significant technical contributions, provides thought leadership, and helps inform discretionary investments to drive capability development, innovation, and transition of innovation into the work program. This individual leads the department quality program, participates in senior-level reviews, and collaborates across the health FFRDC's CE community to achieve increases in quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. They promote a culture of excellence, teamwork, learning, innovation, continuous improvement and help develop and mentor the next generation of technical thought leaders. Working closely with the department manager, the department CE is a core member of the department management team assisting in execution of department operations.

Technical Quality and Delivery Excellence

• Lead and drive the department's technical quality within a mission function or technical specialty to deliver high-quality, high-impact technical products that represent MITRE's world-class technical mastery.
• Maintain awareness of the quality and impact of technical deliveries.
• Work across project teams to resolve quality issues.
• In partnership with business and people leadership, provide input on the quality of goals and operationalization of department strategy. This includes the quality of staff hired, staff development, and training initiatives necessary to ensure appropriate technical quality is achieved.
• Mentor, train, and develop staff within the appropriate organizational scope.

Technical Impact

Strategic Planning

Partnerships and Initiatives

Basic Qualifications

Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 7 years and a master's degree; or a doctoral degree with 4 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

Demonstrated technical leadership in support of Medicaid and / or the commercial insurance markets.

Experience in the application and oversight of quality programs.

Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships and work collaboratively internally and across sponsor organizations and partners.

Demonstrated ability to shape and drive high-impact, high-quality work programs.

Demonstrated ability to communicate well, especially under pressure.

A track record of decisiveness in solving problems and commitment to taking swift action.

A track record of driving change.

Agile and able to swiftly change direction, as needed.

Actively shapes new ideas and processes.

Empowers staff to take risks; removes barriers to innovation.

Demonstrated impact in influencing critical technical decisions.

Demonstrated leadership in high-visibility technical assessments.

Demonstrated success with research and development efforts.

Proven track record in the department sponsor organizations (e.g., CMCS, CCIIO) addressing sponsor-focused challenges.

Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to senior sponsors and stakeholders.

This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Salary compensation range and midpoint : $155,000 - $194,000 - $233,000 Annual

Work location type : Onsite

Commitment to non-discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.