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Department Summary:

L060 is the accelerator team for a new MITRE enterprise staffing approach. L060 is responsible for designing and deploying new enterprise processes and an enabling business system architecture to support enterprise staffing in partnership with EBSOD, HR, Finance, ECIS and MITRE's business units. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

This Senior Principal will be the Certinia Product Owner and responsible for the operation of Certinia for project planning, project management, and MITRE’s new staffing commitment model.  The Certinia Product Owner is responsible for the prioritization of functionality and usability improvements and orchestrating the design, development, testing and deployment of these changes to MITRE.

This Senior Principal will also bring together diverse stakeholder groups to surround a given enterprise problem or enterprise opportunity. This position actively identifies end-to-end solutions for select enterprise business processes and systems by considering the process or system within its environment, while also assessing the underlying structure and relationships—and how both aspects impact behavior.

Function: Certinia Product Owner

Strategic End-to-End solution development and planning:Provide End-to-End thinking, strategic planning, and execution of the Salesforce Certinia applicationProvide leadership, financial functional, technical input, and guidance, as well as provide a rally point and where appropriate, POC for participation in Strategic Initiatives and other corporate cross-cutting efforts.Translate high-level, long-term activities into concrete action plans with detailed tasks, milestones, and goals.Coordinate and manage product development, planning and prioritization.

Function: Solutions Design and Innovation

Exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, and collaborative environments.Learn and rapidly respond to new problems across a variety of system domains.Distill complex and complicated problems into organized thought and synchronized action.Lead operational design, implementation, and collaboration of complex problem solving with senior leadership.

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.Experience with financial systems and operating rhythmExperience as a Financial Analyst or Project Leadership at MITRE or Industry EquivalentDemonstrated understanding of the Finance sector and the corporate business process and mission spaces and external technologies.Ability to create, articulate, and motivate visionary concepts, outcomes, and achieve practical outcomes in complex environments.Experience working with the Salesforce platform and other SaaS tools.Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both untrained and expert audiences.Can-do attitude and history of entrepreneurial success.Experience with planning, executing, and presenting complex trade studies while balancing cost, schedule constraints, mission analysis, information assurance and systems integration.Demonstrated proficiency in both virtual and live presentation of complex technical issues.Ability to build strong internal and external partnerships.Demonstrated ability to lead through influence.This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

20+ years of relevant work experience, including full-time industry experience.Experience with leveraging solutions from leading academic and commercial research groups.Experience working across or within an FFRDC environment.

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

None

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

None

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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