Lead Acquisition Analyst (Intelligence Center)

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Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.Our Geospatial Intelligence team provides skills and capabilities to enable the creation and exploitation of national, tactical, and commercial Intelligence in support of Geospatial Intelligence users. We support the production of intelligence and situational awareness for national and warfighter security, targeting, command and control, and humanitarian aid. Our capabilities include requirements and mission workflow analysis for sensor platforms and ground systems, specialized computing systems, architecture design and integration of data in support of exploitation processes, advanced analytics, and integrated intelligence analysis from seabed to space.Roles & Responsibilities:The Geospatial Intelligence Department is seeking an Acquisition staff to support NGA’s Acquisition Environment, specifically aligned to its large acquisition program efforts. includes an extensive focus on complex organizational and acquisition efforts within an IC/DoW Combatant Command Support Agency at the executive agency level.Responsibilities include:Lead transformation in how defense acquisition processes operate within existing statutory and regulatory frameworks. This role contributes acquisition process expertise that complements technical modernization leaders; and it includes streamlining governance, reducing friction across requirements, engineering, acquisition, and budgeting processes, and enabling adoption of modern acquisition approaches to facilitate continuous capability delivery.Shape and scale acquisition execution models across sponsor portfolios to better enable incremental capability delivery and continuous value realization.Advance acquisition approaches that improve software acquisition execution and enable interoperable, mission-ready capabilities across the Department of War.Influence governance structures, decision forums, and oversight approaches to align acquisition control mechanisms with modern engineering and delivery practices.Design practical execution architectures that integrate requirements, funding, contracting, engineering, test, and sustainment into synchronized delivery systems.Partner with engineering leaders to ensure acquisition strategies reinforce — rather than constrain — DevSecOps, iterative development, and platform-based approaches.Reframe performance management from milestone completion toward measurable delivery outcomes.Identify systemic barriers within acquisition structures (organizational, financial, cultural, or procedural) and implement pragmatic transformation strategies that improve portfolio throughput.Guide sponsors in structuring acquisition pathways — including Software Pathway, hybrid models, and alternative contracting mechanisms — to accelerate transition from prototype to continuous capability delivery.Advise senior leaders on portfolio-level prioritization, sequencing, and risk trade-offs to improve capability delivery performance.Contribute to development of repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and reference models that can be applied across multiple sponsors to institutionalize modernization gains.Serve as a trusted advisor to program teams and senior leaders.Proactively help sponsors identify and shape modernization opportunities.Build and sustain trusted relationships across sponsors, FFRDC partners, industry, and academic stakeholders to support integrated modernization efforts.Serve as an active member of multidisciplinary teams integrating acquisition, engineering, and delivery expertise to improve capability outcomes.Basic Qualifications:Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 3 years and a PhD; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.Designing, leading, and transitioning high visibility policy, processes, change management activities involving discussions/working groups with the sponsor and external offices on acquisition modernization and transformation across the agencyDeveloping the environmental elements needed to design, implement, operate, and sustain NGAs Acquisition SystemProgram facilitation for major systems acquisitions, guiding programs through milestone approvals and leading engagements with oversight authorities, and acquisition planning and project management for large software acquisition programs.Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skillsActive TS/SCI with polygraphU.S. Citizenship required.This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-sitePreferred Qualifications: Ability to develop sponsor relationships as a trusted sponsor resource or advisor within the IC/DoW, working complex engagements delivering successful projects, with the ability to span from strategic to tactical during daily engagements with the sponsorUnderstanding of the IC and DoW Acquisition Environments, policy, and practices to include recent DoW Acquisition Transformation elementsDemonstrated experience as a federal government resource professional (e.g., Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process and structure)Change and organizational management experience related to transitioning an agency/business through extensive organizational, acquisition, and financial management changes Personnel Management and LeadershipExtensive experience with acquisition governance and/or PEO operating experience (or senior PM level experience)Experience with Adaptive Acquisition Framework and Acquisition Pathways, acquisition policy, and processesExperience with designing and preparing executive level products and written deliverables (i.e., policy references, memo’s, executive correspondence, etc.)This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/PolygraphThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/PolygraphSalary compensation range and midpoint:$138,800 - $173,500 - $208,200 AnnualWork Location Type:OnsiteCommitment to Non-DiscriminationAll 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.MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. 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