Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Data Scientist

Are you able to look at an issue that needs to be solved and come up with solutions quickly? Do you have a can-do attitude and are proactive with your work? Would you love to work in an ever-expanding team helping the business to grow & develop? Got your interest, then look no further…

What the role has to offer:

• Variety of exciting & important work
• Get exposure to the different aspects of the business by working across all Thales functions
• Working in an expanding team and having a flexible working pattern

Our Opportunity

You will be responsible for defining the data science and advanced analytics requirements and use cases, creating data exploitation models, recommending tool selection and working closely with UK business leads to create insight and value from our data.

Your role in the Digital and Data Function will play a pivotal role in planning, executing and delivering advanced data analytics and scenario modelling. The bulk of the work will focus on data functional use case capture, building models, problem analysis, data exploration and data collection and integration.

You will be responsible for understanding and analysing data across the enterprise looking for data exploitation use cases to add business value. Additionally you will build use cases into pilot’s and MVP’s to create data products. You will work with all members of the Digital team once a business use case has been defined to build the data model and analysis of data for value identification, storytelling, predictive modelling and exploitation opportunities.

You will also use the agreed Data Management processes to capture business and functional ways of working improvements through data. As well as, undertake Cost benefit analysis and return on investment. You will help maintain the integrity and security of the company data. In addition to that you will use of Enterprise search toolsets to build data analysis models working directly with the business or functional SME.

About You

You will have the following:

• Analytical Skills and requirements capture: Take data and business feedback and translate into a useable blueprint.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, data analysts and management and must be an effective communicator.
• Attention to Detail and Logical Thinking: Take code and data and turn it into logical patterns, so that it can be analysed and presented to differing management layers.
• Established Business Analysis skills to identify business need and determine solutions
• Solid proven experience working in technical areas including structured data, analytics, SQL
• Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent project and time management skills with experience of Agile techniques
• Ability to work in a team and on own initiative

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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