eDV Data Scientist – Contract

eDV Data Scientist – Contract
Location: Cheltenham
Security Clearance Required: EDV / UKC
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 / UKC 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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