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greater london, england, united kingdom
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Job Description

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge AI/ML technology? Are you self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced Data Scientist.

As part of our AI team, you will be working with our National Security Customers to understand their business challenges and identify where AI/ML-based solutions can add value. You will lead on discovery activities to explore opportunities for applying data science techniques to solve customer problems. Working with them, you'll test assumptions on the effectiveness of AI/ML to meet their needs. You will work as part of an empowered, multi-disciplinary AI team whose purpose is to develop common AI propositions that will benefit a range of our customers. Working alongside ML Engineers, AI Strategy Lead, and Delivery Management, you will help shape and execute our AI Strategy focused on:

  1. Our Customers:Elaborate user needs and measure AI value
  2. Our Position:Establish our market position and define our USP
  3. Our Skills:Develop our career paths and learning plans for AI
  4. Our Partners:Understand technology partner capabilities and build our AI partner ecosystem
  5. Our Innovation:Learn through AI experiments and demonstrate pull-through to product development

Working in a small team, you'll be given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for, but be part of our much bigger National Security community that will give you the support you need to grow in your career. Our unique customers have interesting, complex data they wish to exploit. You will demonstrate the potential of applying data science approaches to meet their business needs. You will be expected to develop, test, and validate machine learning models, providing guidance to others where needed. As a leading AI expert, you'll provide strategic & technical advice to our customers and consider the ethical implications of applying data science approaches in the context of customers' missions.

We're embarking upon a pivotal period that will significantly grow our AI capability, where you will be leading the development of innovative products & services that support our customers' missions. Our senior leadership team will seek your advice on how best to position our AI proposition to customers.

You'll have the opportunity to get to know our own business and work with people across a diverse range of professional backgrounds. This is an exciting time to join our team to help pioneer both our customer's and our own AI adoption journey. Not only will you be directly making a huge impact through the solutions you develop, you’ll be doing it for an organisation that makes a huge impact on the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

  • Analysis of user needs and advising on the use of relevant standards, methods, tools, frameworks, and processes for data science.
  • Creatively applying innovative thinking and design practices to identify solutions that will deliver value for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder.
  • Employing data science algorithms and methods for complex data processing, statistical analysis, and advanced analytics.
  • Collaboratively designing & building prototypes and Proof of Concept solutions.
  • Conducting data preparation, modelling, labelling, and transformation of 'messy' data to make ready for the application of data science techniques.
  • Applying AI/ML approaches through design, development, and optimisation of machine learning solutions.
  • Understanding of ethical, privacy, security, and policy concerns relevant to the application of AI/ML.
  • Coding of complex programs and scripts, expert in Python programming.
  • Supervising junior analysts/scientists and ML engineers, providing guidance & coaching.
  • Performing assessment of AI-related risks, identifying recommended mitigations.
  • Shaping product roadmaps & informing strategies to adopt AI/ML.
  • Offering thought leadership on data science trends, benefits, and key considerations presenting to wider communities e.g., blogs, events, and conferences.

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not, we’ll help you with them:

  • Developing in Cloud Computing such as AWS, MS Azure.
  • Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, to streamline delivery of new features and fixes.
  • Designing and modelling AI/ML architectures.
  • Relational, document, search, or graph database systems.
  • Containerisation e.g., Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Producing data science learning plans to meet skills needs.

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

How we will support you

  • Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office.
  • You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before.
  • Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards, and more.
  • You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE.
  • You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme.
  • You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.

About our team

Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative, and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020, we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems that helps nations, governments, and businesses around the world defend themselves against cybercrime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK, and EMEA.

For more information please visit our website:https://www.baesystems.com/en/cybersecurity/national-security

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office, or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate, and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences, and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.


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