LOCATION(S): UK, EUROPE & AFRICA : UK : LONDON

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Software Engineer role is predominantly a data engineering position with the requirement for coding skills in order to implement and prototype various data manipulation methodologies. The ideal candidate would be a software engineer with an educational background in Computer Science or a data scientist with proven skill in software engineering.
The Software Engineer sits on the cutting edge of internet enabled investigations and the candidate will be working within a team of multiple contractors from across the space on difficult but interesting investigation problems. The candidate should ideally be familiar with some of the fundamental technologies which facilitate internet communication e.g. TCP IP stack, TOR, VPNs, Internet Packets.

Any prospective candidate will need a strong understanding of a range of different data science techniques and be comfortable working at a research level solving problems and often rapidly learning on the job. They should also have a firm grasp of an OO language (Ideally Python) in which they are able to implement and test these data science related questions.

• Excellent communication skills. The role requires the discussion and explanation of complex data science concepts directly to the client who are at different levels of understanding.
• Task Estimation. You will need to be able to weigh up the relative effort of different data science techniques in order to balance the ones with most benefit vs least time commitment
• Time Management. This role has allot of independent working and it is important to have good time management skills to juggle different tasks.
• Comfortable working with a high degree of independence and alongside other contractors from other businesses.
• Professional conduct required at all times whilst working with the Client.
• Skilled in at least 1 object orientated language preferably (Python)
• Has familiarity with document store databases (Elastic Search)
• Familiarity with containerisation platforms (Docker)
• Understands the IP stack and different connection protocols. (DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP)
• Core knowledge of data science techniques for analysing data. And comfortable working with statistical measures

Desirable

• Any experience with Machine learning techniques.
• Experience with Jira work flows.
• Good understanding of how web technologies operate on a theoretical level (servers, websites. Proxies, VPNs, IP stack)
• Some good extra data science experience would be desirable as this is mostly exploratory work.
• Maintained interest in cutting edge computer science and data science.