Mission Assurance SME

About the Role

As a Mission Assurance professional, you understand that protecting critical missions requires more than documenting assets and vulnerabilities. It requires connecting missions, functions, infrastructure, systems, threats, dependencies, and mitigation activities so leaders can understand risk and make informed decisions. As a Mission Assurance Subject Matter Expert, you’ll work alongside Mission Assurance practitioners, data professionals, application developers, and government leaders to design and implement a new capability for storing, managing, analyzing, and sharing Mission Assurance data.

You’ll help the team understand existing Mission Assurance processes, data standards, assessment methodologies, and workflows currently supported by systems such as the Mission Assurance Risk Management System (MARMS), Enterprise Mission Assurance Analysis Portal (eMAAP), Mission Assurance Decision Support System (MADSS), and Enterprise Protection Risk Management (EPRM). You’ll serve as the bridge between the Mission Assurance community and the technical development team. You’ll translate policy, operational requirements, and user needs into data elements, business rules, system requirements, workflows, dashboards, and decision-support products.

You’ll help determine how the new application should represent missions, task-critical assets, dependencies, threats, hazards, vulnerabilities, risk, assessments, findings, and mitigation activities while preserving traceability to authoritative sources. Work with us to modernize Mission Assurance data management and deliver a capability that strengthens the resilience of critical DoD missions.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of a new capability for storing, managing, analyzing, and sharing Mission Assurance data.
• Translate policy, operational requirements, and user needs into data elements, business rules, system requirements, workflows, dashboards, and decision-support materials.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, requirements sessions, working groups, demonstrations, and validation activities.
• Develop clear written products, briefings, recommendations, process documentation, and decision-support materials for senior government and military leaders.
• Work with geospatial information systems, infrastructure mapping, network visualization, knowledge graphs, or mission-dependency visualization (if applicable).
• Integrate data from authoritative DoD systems through application programming interfaces, data exchanges, or federated-data architectures (if applicable).

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting Mission Assurance, Defense Critical Infrastructure, operational risk management, continuity, protection, or vulnerability assessment.
• Experience supporting Mission Assurance Assessments, Joint Mission Assurance Assessments, Defense Critical Infrastructure activities, mission analysis, vulnerability assessments, or mitigation planning.
• Knowledge of DoDD 3020.40, DoDI 3020.45, or Mission Assurance policies, instructions, standards, and assessment processes.
• Knowledge of the DoD Mission Assurance Construct, including Mission Essential Functions, mission decomposition, task-critical asset identification, mission dependencies, threats and hazards, vulnerabilities, risk assessment, and risk-response activities.
• Knowledge of Mission Assurance data or workflows supported by systems and agencies.
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder interviews, requirements sessions, working groups, demonstrations, and validation activities.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Joint Staff, a Combatant Command, a Military Department, a Defense Agency, or another organization responsible for enterprise Mission Assurance.
• Experience using MARMS, eMAAP, MADSS, EPRM, or Service-specific Mission Assurance and critical-asset management systems.
• Experience supporting Agile software development, including backlog development, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint reviews, user acceptance testing, and capability demonstrations.
• Experience working with geospatial information systems, infrastructure mapping, network visualization, knowledge graphs, or mission-dependency visualization.
• Experience integrating data from authoritative DoD systems through application programming interfaces, data exchanges, or federated-data architectures.
• Knowledge of CJCSI 3209.01A, Mission Assurance Construct Implementation, and Joint Mission Assurance Assessment processes.
• Knowledge of Defense Critical Infrastructure, Defense Critical Assets, Task Critical Assets, Mission Relevant Terrain in Cyberspace, All Hazards Threat Assessments, or related protection programs.
• Ability to work directly with software developers, data engineers, analysts, cybersecurity professionals, and government stakeholders to explain complex Mission Assurance concepts.
• Master’s degree.

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $69,400.00 to $158,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Work models include:

• Remote: Generally remote, with occasional in-person requirements at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: Frequent work from a Booz Allen facility, with potential visits to customer facilities as needed.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, with direct collaboration as required.

For virtual work, cameras are generally expected to be on during meetings to support engagement and effective communication.