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Division Summary 

MITRE’s CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC (Health FFRDC)’s Division for Health Care Quality, Innovation and Operations is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our leadership team at MITRE’s McLean, VA or Baltimore, MD locations. The Division is responsible for the overall performance of the work programs across key components of MITRE’s portfolio with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), including the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and many of the critical strategic and operational offices. The Division is committed to providing innovative and impactful approaches at the intersection of policy, operations, and technology that address the Centers’ priorities.   

 

Job Description 

The Division CE works in partnership with leaders to ensure execution of a high-impact, high-quality technical work program that achieves sponsor mission-critical outcomes. The Division CE makes significant technical contributions, provides thought leadership, develops and executes technical strategies that inform discretionary investments to drive capability development, innovation, and transition of innovation into the work program. This individual leads the Division quality program, participates in senior-level reviews, and collaborates across the Health FFRDC’s CE community to achieve increases in quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. The Division CE also establishes partnerships inside and outside of MITRE. 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 Division Managing Director, the Division Chief Engineer is a core member of the Division management team assisting in execution of division operations.  
 

Roles and responsibilities 

Technical Quality and Delivery Excellence 

Lead and drive the Division’s technical quality program 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 projects teams to resolve quality issues. 

Technical Impact  

Help shape and develop Division work programs and capabilities, where applicable, to provide effective, efficient, and innovative solutions to stakeholders and maximize value to sponsors. Ensure that the capabilities developed appropriately leverage Innovation Centers to maximize reuse of capabilities and products. 

Leverages a deep understanding of sponsor challenges to direct MITRE Innovation resources with a focus on technical transfer of innovation to the Division’s work program.  

Encourage reuse and adaptation of previously delivered technical knowledge and products as appropriate. 

Leverage opportunities for integration and cross-pollination across projects, Division work programs, Health FFRDC sponsors, and other FFRDCs to facilitate knowledge sharing and identify and implement best practices to improve impact while achieving key sponsor outcomes. 

Coordinate technical outreach, partnerships, and engagements with industry, academia, and other stakeholders to ensure that best practices and innovative approaches are brought to bear on the Division’s work and products.   

Partner with Managing Directors, Department Managers, Program Managers, and Department Chief Engineers to engage Sponsors to understand their needs and to enhance the impact of the division work program.

Lead the Division’s implementation of the Mission Value Chain (MVC) in partnership with the Departments and associated Innovation Centers; work with Project Leaders (PLs) to provide input to MVCs. 

Strategic Planning 

Collaborate with the Division leadership on development of the Division technical strategy guiding technical workforce shaping, investments, initiatives, and laboratories that will result in expanding the work program by addressing sponsor relevancy and need.  

Ensure the division is positioned to develop novel approaches and solutions that have measurable impact. 

Partnerships and Initiatives 

Maintain and strengthen existing partnerships across MITRE and develop new relationships within MITRE.  

Establish partnerships with Innovation Center leadership to ensure alignment and synergy of technical strategies and to introduce transformational and efficient solutions into MITRE’s work programs.  

Establish partnerships with Innovation Center leadership to ensure that Innovation Center subject matter experts are properly leveraged in the Division’s work program and technical quality program. 

Collaborate across organizations (e.g., academia, commercial industry, and other government agencies) to bring the best solutions to MITRE sponsors and improve the technical quality of our products. 

Staff Development and Workforce Shaping 

Contribute to staff development, talent assessment, and planning (hiring, mentoring, and training needs), including senior staff across Centers.  

Establish an inclusionary vision for how to sustain and enhance our diverse expertise to enable staff to extend and deepen their ability to collaborate and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in support of sponsor missions. 

Basic Qualifications: 

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. 

Knowledge of CMS programs with policy and programmatic expertise in CCSQ, CMMI and other offices with an emphasis on CMS’s use and future plans for Information Technology. 

Demonstrated leadership in supporting large, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement policy and business solutions for government entities or large companies. 

Experience in the application and oversight of quality programs. 

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

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; and 

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 the IR&D program and/or other research efforts. 

Proven track record in the Division sponsor organizations addressing sponsor-focused challenges. 

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

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

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

Suitability - HHS

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

Suitability - HHS

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$182,000 - $227,500 - $273,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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