Job Title: Data Analytics Software Developer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol
Compensation: £45, - £51, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Use Data to Shape the Future of National Defence
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Data Analytics Software Developer at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Data Analytics Software Developer, you’ll join a newly established team delivering insight‑driven modelling and analysis that supports Babcock’s long‑term submarine maintenance and disposal programmes. Your work will directly influence strategic decisions that underpin national security, infrastructure resilience and future defence capability.
Day-to-day, you’ll translate complex data into meaningful insights that support senior leadership and customers, while developing deep operational understanding of one of the UK’s most critical defence portfolios. In return, you’ll grow your analytical expertise, expand your technical skills and build a rewarding career within defence, aerospace and engineering.
1. Develop and operate modelling and analysis tools to explore business scenarios and optimise programmes.
2. Undertake targeted modelling to answer specific business questions and support strategic decision‑making.
3. Build operational and strategic understanding to shape scenarios and options using advanced analytical techniques.
4. Analyse supply capability against submarine availability demand across multiple sites.
5. Create clear, impactful analytical outputs for stakeholders at all levels.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Babcock Technology Centre.
Essential experience of the Data Analytics Software Developer
6. Working knowledge of Python, with experience in a fast‑paced data analysis or programming environment.
7. Strong capability in developing, running and maintaining complex models and analytical tools.
8. High level of numeracy, logical reasoning and problem‑solving ability.
9. Confident collaborator who can proactively engage with senior stakeholders.
10. Clear communicator, able to present insights at all levels, with desirable experience applying modelling or analytical techniques within complex operational or engineering environments.
Qualifications for the Data Analytics Software Developer
11. A relevant degree or strong academic background in a STEM‑related discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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