Collections Management SME with Security Clearance

Job Description BOAB Ventures is seeking a Collections Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support an advanced, mission-focused capability development program within the national security space. This role requires an experienced intelligence professional who understands collection management at the Combatant Command (COCOM) level and can translate real-world operational processes into workflows and requirements that technical development teams can act on.

The ideal candidate understands how collection requirements are generated, validated, tasked, orchestrated, and assessed across intelligence disciplines and platforms. You will work at the intersection of operational intelligence and emerging AI-enabled capabilities, helping ensure technology is built around how intelligence professionals actually operate.

What You'll Do

• Provide COCOM-level collection management expertise across the full collection cycle, including requirements generation, validation, tasking, orchestration, and assessment.
• Identify opportunities to integrate operational collection workflows, intelligence data sources, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Translate collection management processes and operational needs into developer-consumable workflows, requirements, and user stories.
• Communicate operational constraints, governance structures, data ownership considerations, and integration tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work across collection management tools, intelligence platforms, and data environments spanning multiple intelligence disciplines.
• Coordinate with operational users, platform and data owners, government stakeholders, and technical development teams.
• Help bridge the gap between operational collection management and technical capability development, ensuring proposed integrations are practical and mission-relevant.
• Provide operational insight and user feedback throughout iterative capability-development cycles.

Required Skills

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Demonstrated operational collection management experience at the Combatant Command level.
• Deep understanding of how collection management supports the broader intelligence and targeting enterprise.
• Experience with cross-discipline/multi-INT collection requirements management and orchestration.
• Familiarity with collection management tools, intelligence platforms, data environments, and associated governance and ownership structures.
• Ability to translate operational collection challenges into requirements that software engineers and technical teams can understand and build against.
• Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced, multi-vendor, government-led development environments with evolving priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical developers, operational users, senior leaders, government stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Ability to support periodic travel, approximately every 30 days, to Combatant Commands, service components, operational units, and industry/vendor locations.

Desired Skills

• CENTCOM collection management or collection orchestration experience.
• Experience supporting DoD software, AI/ML, data, or operational capability-development programs.
• Existing relationships with operational platform or data owners.
• Experience working within classified operational environments and navigating cross-domain data constraints.
• Familiarity with Agile development practices, rapid capability delivery, and iterative user-feedback cycles.
• Prior Military Intelligence or Intelligence Community experience.