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Training Subject Matter Expert

Columbia, MD ยท On-site

$166K - $180K/yr

Training Subject Matter Expert Columbia, MD | Full Time | TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Position ... Knowledge of cyber operations and cyber tradecraft. * Experience developing and delivering ...

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How much do tradecraft expert jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 14, 2026, the average hourly pay for tradecraft expert in the United States is $34.06, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $20.43 and $39.18 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a tradecraft expert?

Tradecraft Experts are professionals skilled in the specialized techniques, procedures, and knowledge used in intelligence, security, or investigative fields. Their expertise includes methods for gathering, analyzing, and protecting information, as well as counterintelligence, surveillance, and operational planning. Tradecraft Experts often work for government agencies, private security firms, or consult on matters involving espionage, security, and risk management. Their unique skill set helps organizations safeguard sensitive data and assets while detecting and mitigating threats.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a tradecraft expert?

To thrive as a Tradecraft Expert, you need a deep understanding of intelligence gathering, operational security, surveillance, and counter-surveillance techniques, often supported by relevant experience in intelligence or law enforcement. Familiarity with secure communications, encryption tools, and intelligence analysis platforms is typically required. Discretion, critical thinking, and adaptability are essential soft skills for effectively managing sensitive operations and reacting to dynamic environments. These skills and qualities are vital for protecting sensitive information, ensuring mission success, and maintaining personal and organizational security.

How does a tradecraft expert typically collaborate with other departments to ensure operational security?

A Tradecraft Expert often works closely with intelligence analysts, field operatives, and security teams to develop, implement, and monitor best practices for operational security. This collaboration includes conducting regular briefings, sharing threat intelligence, and advising on secure communication protocols. By maintaining open lines of communication and providing specialized guidance, Tradecraft Experts help ensure that all team members are equipped to recognize and mitigate security risks, making their role integral to organizational safety.

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Infographic showing various Tradecraft Expert job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 82% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 4% Contract. Highlights an 90% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $70,855 per year, or $34.1 per hour.

Expert All Source Analyst (OBI) - OBIQUA

Reston, VA โ€ข On-site

CELESTAR
Manufacturingย โ€ขย 51 - 200 employees

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 8 days ago


Job description

Celestar Corporation is seeking an Expert All Source Analyst (OBI) to support The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under the Object Based Intelligence and Quality Assurance (OBIQUA) task order. The primary place of performance will be at DIA Facilities across the National Capital Region (NCR). If interested and meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding and impactful opportunity.
ANTICIPATED AWARD: TBD
ANTICIPATED START: TBD
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: DIA Facilities across the National Capital Region (NCR)
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI with a Current CI Poly
About Us:
Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.
Responsibilities:
This opportunity will support multiple DIA initiatives, including the Machine-Assisted Rapid-Repository System (MARS), Object Management Services (OMS), and Object-Based Intelligence (OBI).
โ€ข The Expert All Source Analyst, Object Based Intelligence (OBI), Conducts spatially-enabled, all-source analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature.
โ€ข Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.
โ€ข Support DIA development of OBI governance documentation and development of training for OBI practitioners.
โ€ข Applies DIA and IC Tradecraft standards, style, and editing standards and implement all guidance in OBI governance and reference documentation, training materials.
โ€ข Demonstrates, in the delivery of narrative products, working knowledge of using structured analytic techniques and methodologies to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to increase confidence of analytic assessments and minimize uncertainty and strengthen analytic arguments and apply them to OBI governance and tradecraft documentation.
โ€ข Correlates results into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products that adhere to DNI analytic tradecraft standards, including through DIA's finished intelligence product lines, enabling informed analytic decisions.
โ€ข This production may involve the use and demonstration of integrating emerging or existing DIA data or advanced analytic methods into intelligence products.
โ€ข Researches and understands client needs and requirements and use this knowledge to propose initiative and tasked products that synthesize intelligence narratives, enabling responses to client needs.
โ€ข Retrieves, proactively, information from various sources, including classified and unclassified sources, and analyze the information using existing and emerging DIA and IC capabilities and data sets, to develop analytic assessments.
โ€ข Integrates appropriate methods, processes, and workflows to bring multiple capabilities and multi-variant data into a coherent, tradecraft compliant all-source intelligence narrative.
โ€ข Exploits large, complex, spatial & temporal data to produce both relevant and tradecraft compliant all-source intelligence production against requirements in support of Office and Agency intelligence production requirements.
โ€ข Provides all-source analysis enabled by data science methods and spatial data to meet OBI mission objectives.
โ€ข Collaborates and coordinates within the DIE- including appropriate Agency functional offices, regional offices, centers, the Combatant Commands, and IC elements to ensure analytic concurrence among functional or regional area stakeholders throughout the DIE on OBI governance and tradecraft-related objectives.
โ€ข Uses principles and standards set forth in Intelligence Community Directive 203 to ensure that all products comply with DNI and DIA standards for analytic tradecraft and integrity.
โ€ข Supports DIA efforts to vet or validate existing or emerging programs and capabilities.
Required qualifications/skills:
โ€ข Minimum 20 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the
specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
โ€ข Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college
or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
โ€ข Expertise applying DIA and IC tradecraft standards, style, and editing standards and implement all guidance in OBI governance and reference documentation, training materials and coordinates within the DIE - including appropriate Agency functional offices, regional offices, centers, the Combatant Commands, and IC elements to ensure analytic concurrence among functional or regional area stakeholders throughout the DIE on OBI governance and tradecraft-related objectives.
โ€ข Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
โ€ข Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
โ€ข Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers.
Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!
Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.