Technical SETA SME Financial IntelligenceGuidehouse

The Technical SETA will provide analytical, economicsecurity, and researchsupport expertise across the full lifecycle of government R&D programsfrom concept development and source selection through execution, evaluation, transition, and closeout. In this role, the Technical SETA will serve as a subjectmatter expert in geoeconomics, financialintelligence methodologies, and sanctionsrelated analytics, supporting sponsors through briefings, workshops, interagency engagements, and technical assessments. The SETA will translate complex quantitative, regulatory, and financialintelligence concepts into actionable insights, enabling rigorous program design, strategic decisionmaking, and highimpact research and mission outcomes.

What You Will Need:

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED TS/SCI Federal or DoD security clearance with a polygraph

• Master's degree

• FIVE (5) or more years of work experience including, but not be limited to:

  • Applied experience in geoeconomics, including: supply chain analysis, strategic trade flows, sanctions regimes, foreign direct investment, state backed economic coercion

  • Expertise in financial intelligence methodologies, including: network analysis, beneficial ownership mapping, corporate registry exploitation, trade based money laundering detection, financial data fusion

  • Experience with quantitative modeling and analytic methods relevant to economic security, including: network analysis, econometrics, statistical inference, Monte Carlo methods, machine learning for anomaly detection

  • Direct experience supporting CFT/AML missions across government or the national security community, with familiarity in:
    emerging typologies, cross border capital movement patterns, illicit finance risk assessment frameworks

  • Working knowledge of statutory and regulatory regimes, including: BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, export controls (ITAR/EAR), CFIUS, authorities used in economic statecraft and foreign influence mitigation

  • Strong analytic experience integrating heterogeneous data sources, including: financial records, trade data, customs and shipping data, open source economic indicators, corporate registries and datasets, alternative/nontraditional data, anomalous pattern identification, adversarial behavior detection

  • Understanding of emerging digital assets ecosystems and architectures, including: CBDCs, stablecoins, blockchain analytics, cross border payments infrastructure, relevance for sanctions evasion and AML

  • Background in scenario design, wargaming, or red team analysis, with focus on: geoeconomic competition, economic shocks, sanctions escalation, critical resource disruption

  • Managing multi disciplinary research or test/evaluation programs

  • Creating program plans, WBS structures, milestone schedules

  • Technical evaluation and assessment techniques