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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