Operational Data Scientist

GCHQ is offering you an exciting opportunity to develop and use your analytical skills by joining us as an Operational Data Scientist.

You’ll work either in our central data science hub or in one of our core operational analysis teams.  Either way, you’ll directly support our intelligence analyst community with some of the hardest problems they face. Our Data Scientists use big data technologies and their data mining skills to analyse mission problems, build tools, techniques and visualisations that influences operational decisions. Whether pioneering new analytic capabilities against high tempo operational problems, exploring unfamiliar data sets, or solving strategic analytic challenges, your work will help protect our nation.

REQUIREMENTS

We’re looking for individuals from all backgrounds who enjoy problem solving and have either a 2:2 degree or above, in a relevant subject (Science, Programming, Maths, Statistics, Data analysis), OR at least 2 year’s relevant work experience using large scale data programming languages and analysing large data volumes.  You’ll also need to be proficient in data analysis.

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