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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Capability Delivery Transformation Principal - **Company:** MITRE Corporation - **Location:** Bedford, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $173,200.0 - $216,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Iterative and Incremental Development, Devsecops - **Published:** June 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g8aq1v ## About the Role + Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. + Demonstrated experience navigating or improving DoW acquisition processes in programs, portfolios, or enterprise settings. + Working knowledge of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF), including the Software Acquisition Pathway, and related requirements and resourcing processes. + Practical knowledge of acquisition mechanisms such as OTAs, FAR-based strategies, and innovation pathways to enable adaptive delivery approaches. + Experience implementing modern acquisition approaches in traditional acquisition or AAF environments. + Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional working groups and drive change across organizational boundaries with measurable improvement. + Experience supporting or implementing governance improvements. + Strong analytical, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills. + Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. + Ability to operate in dynamic sponsor environments with evolving objectives. + Active DoD Secret clearance + U.S. Citizenship required. + Willingness to support hybrid on-site engagement as required by sponsors. + This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence. Preferred Qualifications: + Experience with the DoW software acquisition pathway leading critical acquisition modernization or reform + Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance with access to Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). + Private sector experience defense, technology, or consulting industries. + Experience working with OSD Research and Engineering and/or Acquisition and Sustainment staffs. + Demonstrated ability to maintain and leverage a strong professional network to provide thought leadership across the acquisition enterprise. ## Description + 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 produce continuous capability delivery. + Shape and scale acquisition execution models across sponsor portfolios to better enable incremental capability delivery and continuous value realization. + 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. ## Related Videos - [Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why - DevSecOps Enablement](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/478-organizational-change-through-the-power-of-why-devsecops-enablement) - [From Loops to Lightning: .NET with SIMD](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2068-from-loops-to-lightning-net-with-simd) - [DevSecOps: Injecting Security into Mobile CI/CD Pipelines](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/273-devsecops-injecting-security-into-mobile-ci-cd-pipelines) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Demystifying DevOps—Pros, cons, dos & don'ts](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/338-demystifying-devops-pros-cons-dos-don-ts) - [DevSecOps culture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/783-devsecops-culture) ## Related Articles - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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