T&E & Emerging Tech SME Analyst (DC/Remote)

Noblis, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 116,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Noblis, Inc. in Washington, DC, is seeking a Test, Evaluation, and Emerging Technology SME Analyst to support DHS and CBP missions by planning test events, shaping metrics, and translating results into actionable recommendations for leadership.

The role requires advanced degree or extensive experience, U.S. citizenship, and willingness to travel up to 25%. On-site work with hybrid flexibility, collaborating with government partners, vendors, and SMEs to drive transition decisions.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree with 10+ years of related experience or 15+ years of related experience.
• Eligibility to obtain a DHS Suitability determination based on background investigation.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Degree or experience in engineering, science, data analytics, operations research, homeland security, public policy, logistics, business, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing T&E events, field assessments, pilots, demonstrations, or operational evaluations for technical, operational, homeland security, defense, law enforcement, or mission-support systems.
• Experience developing test plans, assessment criteria, measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, data collection approaches, analysis plans, and evaluation reports.
• Experience gathering and validating user, stakeholder, and operational requirements to guide evaluation design.
• Ability to evaluate technology performance, operational suitability, user value, cost/resource implications, compliance considerations, and transition readiness.
• Strong technical writing and briefing skills, including the ability to communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Planning test events: Developing test strategies, assessment plans, objectives, criteria, schedules, data needs, test conditions, risks, and stakeholder roles for emerging technology evaluations.
• Supporting field execution: Coordinating demonstrations, field assessments, logistics, data collection, user feedback, and after-action reporting.
• Eliciting requirements: Gather and validate user, stakeholder, and operational requirements to shape credible evaluation activities.
• Building meaningful metrics: Define performance, usability, compliance, transition readiness, and mission impact metrics with government stakeholders.
• Analyzing test evidence: Evaluate quantitative and qualitative results using tools such as Excel, Python, R, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Developing technical documentation: Draft test plans, capability reports, system assessments, project status reports, leadership briefings, and technical summaries.
• Supporting transition decisions: Translate T&E findings into go/no-go, refine, sustain, transition, or disposition recommendations tied to acquisition, training, logistics, and field deployment considerations.
• Coordinating across stakeholders: Work with government leads, operators, vendors, technical SMEs, policy/compliance partners, and program teams to maintain alignment across planning, execution, reporting, and transition.
• Supporting compliance-aware evaluation: Contributing to documentation and planning related to PTA, ATT, ATO, FOIA support materials, and other program artifacts as needed for commercial technology evaluations.

Skills

Test & evaluation planning

Technical briefing

Technical writing

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Advanced degree or 15+ years experience

Tools

Excel

Python

Power BI

Tableau

R

Jira

Job description

Noblis, Inc. in Washington, DC, is seeking a Test, Evaluation, and Emerging Technology SME Analyst to support DHS and CBP missions by planning test events, shaping metrics, and translating results into actionable recommendations for leadership.

The role requires advanced degree or extensive experience, U.S. citizenship, and willingness to travel up to 25%. On-site work with hybrid flexibility, collaborating with government partners, vendors, and SMEs to drive transition decisions.