Data Scientist

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Maritime Services

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Maritime Services Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

At BAE Systems we are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

Our Maritime Services Business

Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us.

Our people are encouraged to be as creative as they can be and are always looking at ways to develop and challenge the way we do things, identifying and prioritising continuous improvement activities across the business.

With our international programmes and core support to the Ministry of Defence our highly skilled teams design, develop, support and maintain a wide range of complex equipment.

Join us and the projects you’ll be involved in will positively impact our customers for decades to come. You’ll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

Data Scientist

Would you like to join a growing data science team, apply your expertise to real-world data and deliver valuable insights to customers? We currently have a vacancy for a Data Scientist within our Maritime Services business.

As a Data Scientist at Maritime Services, you will be contributing to the development of new and existing products as well as undertaking original research to enhance BAE Systems’ knowledge base and capability within the field of Prognostics and Health Management. Working with various data sets including time-series, text data and transactional records, you will be using innovative machine learning techniques to deliver novel insights to support our engineering teams. This role will enable you to put your curiosity and skills into play and allow you to work with various stakeholders via exposure to different areas of the business, all with the aim of maintaining BAE Systems’ position at the forefront of this technology.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to join an agile and fast-growing team where you can learn from our in-house experts in the field and have access to training and conferences to support your technical development. Hybrid working and flexible hours are available to suit our candidates’ needs.

Your Main Responsibilities As a Data Scientist Will Involve

• Applying a range of machine learning techniques, data mining, prescriptive and predictive analytics to improve business capability
• Applying designated quantitative techniques, statistics, time series analysis, optimisation, and simulation to develop appropriate models for classification, regression, and prediction
• Supporting the development and deployment of data science workflows to streamline business processes for agile decision making
• Visualising results of data analysis, designing dashboards and presenting using storytelling methods
• Analysing large and diverse datasets to provide clear and insights for a range of business applications
• Researching and assessing new data science techniques via literature reviews and engagement with academia and/or SMEs.
• Engaging with data science and or analytics capabilities across BAE Systems business units
• Presenting research and insights to stakeholders with different levels of technical understanding
  

Your Skills And Qualifications

• Background in Statistics, Data Science and Machine learning
• Experience using Python and its application to data science projects
• Experience working with time-series data
• Understand and ability to follow the data science lifecycle for a project (including problem definition, training and validation, interpretation, and deployment)
• Experience working with a range of data sources (e.g. SQL, No-SQL, APIs, flat-files)
• Good communication skills to be able to communicate with customers and internal stakeholders
• A degree in a relevant subject or experience of working in a similar role
  

What We Are Looking For In You

Above all, you should demonstrate a curiosity for working with data, backed up with proven data science expertise. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are necessary to allow you to interact and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You should have the ability to distil complex ideas and opportunities into clear business questions and be able to translate into tangible business benefits for functional leaders and SMEs without using technical language

Location: Portsmouth / hybrid working

Grade: GG10

Salary: Competitive

Benefits

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Employee Referral Scheme bonus = (if applicable)

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Job

Engineering

Primary Location

GB-ENG-HAM-Portsmouth Naval Base

Closing Date

14/Jun/22, 1:59:00 AM