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Department Summary:
MITRE's CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC (Health FFRDC)'s Federal Programs Department within the CMS Programs Division is looking for a Department Chief Engineer (CE) to join our leadership team at MITRE's McLean, VA or Baltimore, MD locations. The Federal Programs Department is primarily responsible for MITRE's work program across the Center for Medicare (CM), the CMS Innovation Center, and the Center for Clinical Standards & Quality (CCSQ).
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Department CE works in partnership with the Department Manger to ensure execution of a high-impact, high-quality technical work program that achieves the mission-critical outcomes of the Department's sponsors (CM, CMS Innovation Center, CCSQ). 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
Ensure that individual projects are driving change at a technical level.
Help shape and develop Department 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 the MITRE Innovation Centers to maximize reuse of capabilities and products.
Leverage 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, Department and 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.
Partner with Managing Directors, Division Chiefs Engineers, Department Managers, and Program Managers to engage sponsors to understand their needs and to enhance the impact of the Department work program.
Lead the Department's implementation of the Mission Value Chain (MVC); work with Project Leaders (PLs) to provide input to MVCs.
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 Department's work and products.
Strategic Planning
Collaborate with the Department leadership on development of technical strategy guiding technical workforce shaping, investments, initiatives, and laboratories that will result in expanding the work program by addressing sponsor relevancy and need.
Influence and engage with research efforts across the organization to ensure internal research and development efforts maximize relevance and impact.
Ensure the Department is positioned to develop novel approaches and solutions that have measurable impact.
Develop the strategy for enhancing a technical specialty or the utilization of a technical specialty within MITRE, including the ability to call for a technical review on a specific project within the appropriate organizational scope.
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 Department's work program and technical quality program.
Lead cross-Program and Project-level technical 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 in support of Medicare, Medicare quality reporting, and/or value-based payment models.
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 (CM, CMS Innovation Center, CCSQ) 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
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
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.
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