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We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.\nMITRE’s Enterprise Business Systems and Operations Division (EBSOD) focuses on delivering and supporting business systems and processes to enable our leaders and employees to deliver impact, make data driven business decisions, and find opportunities. The EBSOD Data and Integrations team delivers and supports the enterprise data platform, data warehouse, data integrations, and APIs that enable mission-critical business reports, analytics, and system integrations.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nThe Data and Integration Group Lead/Principal will lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise business system data warehousing and data integration initiatives to modernize (scalable, extensible, reliable, and secure) the organization's data platform to enable reporting and analytics and data integration/exchanges in support of corporate activity. In addition, they will manage the team responsible for designing, building, and supporting modern data pipelines, data warehouses, and integration services while driving cloud adoption, automation, and engineering best practices – to include hands on development, guidance, and day-to-day direction.\nAreas of Responsibility:\nDefine and execute the roadmap for a modern enterprise data warehouse and data integrations in support of MITRE and Finance vision and strategy.\nLead the migration from legacy data platforms to modern, cloud-based data architectures, with minimal business disruption.\nDirect and oversee the daily design, development, security, and operations of scalable, extensible data warehouses, data lakes, and data integration solutions.\nProvide day-to-day leadership for the data warehouse team, establishing priorities, removing delivery obstacles, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality execution of strategic and operational initiatives – to include hands on delivery.\nEstablish and enforce architectural vision and standards, governance, and best practices for data modeling, ETL/ELT, metadata management, and data lifecycle management.\nDrive adoption of modern data engineering technologies, including cloud-native services, automation, orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).\nPartner with business leaders, application teams, Business Analytics, HR, and Enterprise Technology to translate business requirements into data solutions.\nEnsure data platforms meet performance, reliability, security, compliance, and availability requirements.\nOversee vendor relationships, technology evaluations, and implementation of new tools and platforms supporting the enterprise data ecosystem.\nPromote Agile delivery practices, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and continuous improvement throughout the data engineering lifecycle.\nCollaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure secure data handling, privacy, and regulatory compliance.\nChampion innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending improvements to enhance organizational data capabilities.\nPresent architectural strategies, modernization progress, risks, and investment recommendations to executive leadership.\nLeadership:\nFoster a collaborative, customer-focused, and innovation-driven engineering culture.\nProvide technical leadership, coaching, and career development opportunities for team members.\nEstablish clear performance expectations and accountability for project delivery and operational excellence.\nBuild strong partnerships across Finance, HR, Enterprise Technology, business units, and executive stakeholders to align technology investments with organizational priorities.\nContribute to organizational change management efforts associated with modernization initiatives and technology transformation.\nQualifications:\nMinimum of 10 years of progressive experience in data engineering, data warehousing, software engineering, data integration, and/or enterprise data architecture.\nMinimum of 3 years of experience leading technical teams responsible for enterprise data platforms, software engineering, and/or data engineering.\nBachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.\nExperience leading modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy data platforms to cloud-based data architectures.\nExperience with modern cloud data platforms and services (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).\nProficiency with SQL, Python, and PySpark, Apache Spark, and relational database management systems.\nExperience with data modeling, metadata management, data governance, and data quality best practices.\nExperience with Agile software development methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and automated testing.\nDemonstrated experience in 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Qualifications:\nDemonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale data warehouse and/or data integration solutions.\nExperience implementing secure, reliable, and highly available enterprise data platforms that meet organizational security and compliance requirements.\nExperience designing and implementing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration frameworks, and enterprise data models.\nExperience with modern data warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, or equivalent platforms.\nExperience supporting enterprise business applications and platforms, including ERP, HCM, CRM, procurement, expense management, and integration technologies.\nKnowledge of policy and regulations related to government contracting, including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nNone\nThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nNot Applicable\nSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$173,200 - $216,500 - $259,800 Annual\nWork Location Type:\nHybrid\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll 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.\nMITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply.\nBenefits information may be found here.\nCopyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. 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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.\nMITRE’s Enterprise Business Systems and Operations Division (EBSOD) focuses on delivering and supporting business systems and processes to enable our leaders and employees to deliver impact, make data driven business decisions, and find opportunities. The EBSOD Data and Integrations team delivers and supports the enterprise data platform, data warehouse, data integrations, and APIs that enable mission-critical business reports, analytics, and system integrations.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nThe Data and Integration Group Lead/Principal will lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise business system data warehousing and data integration initiatives to modernize (scalable, extensible, reliable, and secure) the organization's data platform to enable reporting and analytics and data integration/exchanges in support of corporate activity. In addition, they will manage the team responsible for designing, building, and supporting modern data pipelines, data warehouses, and integration services while driving cloud adoption, automation, and engineering best practices – to include hands on development, guidance, and day-to-day direction.\nAreas of Responsibility:\nDefine and execute the roadmap for a modern enterprise data warehouse and data integrations in support of MITRE and Finance vision and strategy.\nLead the migration from legacy data platforms to modern, cloud-based data architectures, with minimal business disruption.\nDirect and oversee the daily design, development, security, and operations of scalable, extensible data warehouses, data lakes, and data integration solutions.\nProvide day-to-day leadership for the data warehouse team, establishing priorities, removing delivery obstacles, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality execution of strategic and operational initiatives – to include hands on 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Qualifications:\nDemonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale data warehouse and/or data integration solutions.\nExperience implementing secure, reliable, and highly available enterprise data platforms that meet organizational security and compliance requirements.\nExperience designing and implementing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration frameworks, and enterprise data models.\nExperience with modern data warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, or equivalent platforms.\nExperience supporting enterprise business applications and platforms, including ERP, HCM, CRM, procurement, expense management, and integration technologies.\nKnowledge of policy and regulations related to government contracting, including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following 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