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eDV Data Scientist – Contract

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Cheltenham
2 weeks ago
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eDV Data Scientist – Contract

Location:Cheltenham
Security Clearance Required:EDV / UK*C
Employment Type:Contract
Pay Rate:£600 - £700 per day

Job Summary

We are looking for a mission-driven Data Scientist to join our team supporting high-impact initiatives in the Defence and National Security sector. You will apply advanced analytical techniques, machine learning, and statistical modelling to solve complex operational challenges. Working within a secure, multidisciplinary environment, you'll help deliver data-driven insights to support decision-making, threat detection, intelligence analysis, and national defence strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and deploy data models, machine learning algorithms, and statistical analyses to support defence and national security operations.
  • Work with structured and unstructured data from diverse sources such as sensors, ISR feeds, satellite imagery, communications, cyber threat logs, and intelligence reports.
  • Collaborate with domain experts, analysts, and engineers to understand mission needs and translate them into actionable data science problems.
  • Design and build data pipelines and processes for data collection, cleansing, transformation, and validation.
  • Support real-time analytics and operational dashboards for situational awareness and command support.
  • Communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders via clear visualisations and reports.
  • Ensure compliance with data handling, classification, and ethical use policies in a high-security environment.
  • Stay up to date with emerging technologies in AI, deep learning, and data analytics relevant to the defence sector.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

  • Proven experience as a Data Scientist, ideally in defence, intelligence, law enforcement, or government.
  • Active EDV / UK*C security clearance.
  • Proficient in Python and/or R, with experience using data science libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
  • Strong statistical, mathematical, and data modelling skills.
  • Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, matplotlib, Plotly).
  • Familiarity with big data tools and cloud platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Azure, AWS).
  • Ability to work with sensitive or classified data in secure environments.

Desirable:

  • Experience in applying data science to one or more of the following: cyber defence, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), threat modelling, logistics optimisation, or predictive maintenance.
  • Knowledge of NLP, computer vision, or reinforcement learning in defence applications.
  • Experience with edge analytics, secure computing environments, or Federated Learning.
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist, AWS Certified Machine Learning, CISSP).


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