Defence Open Source Intelligence Centre - Huntingdon, United Kingdom - Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence

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Huntingdon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £33,830
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
MOD
Strategic Command
DI > NCGI
Type of role:
Analytical
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Parttime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EAAbout the job

Job summary:

As an important part of the Ministry of Defence, Defence Intelligence (DI) provides intelligence analysis, specialist outputs and advice that supports decision making across government.

At the heart of DI is the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI).

Everything happens somewhere.

NCGI produces intelligence that is referenced in time and space to help decision makers to understand, plan, navigate, and target; to understand what is going on.

We are the primary provider of geospatial intelligence advice and expertise, comprising imagery intelligence, geospatial analysis, geospatial services, foundation data, military mapping and, in partnership with the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and the Meteorological Office, assured data for safety of navigation.

We are a national capability, recognisably operating alongside other national intelligence agencies and is the primary interface between the UK and international geospatial intelligence partners.

You may think you need to be an analyst or have an intelligence background to work for NCGI; this is not true.

There is a wide range of exciting roles available.

Without our highly dedicated teams of enabling staff, such as IT support, finance, security, and facilities management, our critical outputs would just not be possible.

We employ many Civil Servants who play a pivotal role in Defence, nationally and internationally, and we are proud to be part of a diverse, forward thinking, broad organisation.

One key area of the organisation is the Defence Open Source Intelligence Centre (DOC).

The DOC provide specialist, advanced and pioneering Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to the Armed Forces and other Partners Across Government (PAG).

The DOC is at the centre of delivering new cutting edge capability across Defence. Roles within the DOC are typically fast paced and many of its activities are firsts in Defence.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a challenging yet rewarding role that is informing future Defence Intelligence.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job description:

Main Responsibilities:
We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and driven individual to join the fast paced DOC Discover Team.

As the Data Exploitation you will be responsible for managing ingestion and analytical pipelines into a large data repository, ensuring that all collected data is processed legally and within Defence policy parameters as well as being appropriately metadata tagged and retrievable.

Ensuring data ingested into the repository is in accordance with strict data handling and retention policies.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Identifying and understanding emerging data ingestion and analysis techniques.
Engage with Defence Open Source users, customers and industry partners to ensure developmental work and operational output coordinates with wider Defence innovation initiatives.
Liaise with Discover Team members to ensure work is in line with broader Defence requirements and seek opportunities for development of new capability.
Developing and maintaining good understanding of the current PAI capability and ongoing/planned innovation and procurement activity.
Managing the development and delivery of data collect, ingest and lead the advancement of analysis tools. Including processes using programming languages such as Python or JavaScript. Using big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) processes to meet these capability gaps.
Leading on multinational projects with international partners as the SME on data analytics and exploitation of open source data, including areas such as AI and ML to support projects.
Using your SME skills and knowledge support the DOC Innovation team in improving the current inservice PAI platform ensuring it meets Defence user requirements. Contribute to the development of Key User Requirements and technical needs to support future OSINT capability delivery.
Collaborate closely with internal teams and other innovation partners to facilitate the wider integration of PAI data sets into the wider analytical tool set.
Engage with relevant academic and commercial institutions on sophisticated data analytic topics, encouraging effective relationships where appropriate.
Connect with other Data initiatives and Crossgovernmental data analysis forums and workshops.

The role will require working closely with Defence Open Source users, Centre for Intelligen