Job Title: OSINT Lead Data Scientist
Location: London
Working Model: Hybrid - Travel to office is required up to 2 - 3 days a week
Duration: 6 - 12 months start (rolling contract - extended till 2025)
Daily Rate Available: TBC during screening stage and dependant on experience
Inside IR35 via Umbrella: Paystream, Giant, Advance
Active SC Clearance / BPSS ideally required**
ACE DESCRIPTION
The ACE (Accelerated Capability Environment) is a Home Office unit within the Homeland Security Group (HSG). The initiative was set up in early 2017, powered by Vivace, to solve the fast-changing digital and technological challenges facing law enforcement and national security agencies.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing technical leadership to delivery
- Working with supplier teams to agree approaches
- Reviewing documented deliverables to ensure technical quality is appropriate
- On a per sprint basis, provide planning input to ensure correct activity is being undertaken, including input to Jira boards
- Reviewing Technical Dependencies to highlight potential conflicts
- Reviewing and helping refine delivery plans
- Proactively input to RAID advising of new/emergent topics for the RAID and reviewing current status
- Reviewing and helping refine delivery plans
SKILL SET / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
OSINT
- Techniques and sources for collection
- Appropriate analytical methods around Personal, organisational and network information
- Knowledge Extraction of findings for actionable insights
- Understanding of legal and ethical considerations
- Familiarity with large open source datasets
Data Science
- Correlation
- Classification
- Outlier detection
- Clustering
- Regression
- Tracking patterns
- Understanding of ML/ AI approaches towards NLP
- Create algorithms and data models to forecast outcomes
- Deploy data tools such as Python, R, SAS, or SQL in data analysis
Analytics
- Understands the importance of and key concpets of data visualisation
Other
- Analytical and curious mindset
- Research skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
