Senior Data Scientist – Cyber Security Department for Work and Pensions

Reference

1583063

Number of vacancies

Location

Leeds, London, or Manchester

Salary

Up to £69,093

Work hours

Employment type

Permanent

Job benefits

In return for your skills we offer great work life balance, competitive salary, a brilliant civil service pension, a generous leave package and lots more.

Closing date

11 June 2018

Job description

If you’re creative and curious to learn, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring BIG ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for talented Senior Data Scientists (Cyber Security) to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and highest-profile digital transformation programmes in the world. Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.

About you

Our department is undergoing one of the most important and exciting transformations in government, which have a direct impact on millions of people. Cyber Security data science specialists will be responsible for the sophistication and accuracy of our underlying analytics capability in tackling a range of security risks.

You will have the following essential skills and experience:

Building and optimising innovative, security analytics solutions on large or complex data sets
Using techniques such as data visualisation, anomaly detection, machine learning or real time decisions
Understanding of potential attacker behaviour and malware activity
Awareness of the latest technology trends in the cyber and analytics domain and their relative merits

You may have the following desirable skills and experience:

Typical Government information security policies and procedures including the use of its data
Using products such as Splunk, Arcsight, Logrhythm or Alienvault
GIAC, GMON or other equivalent information security qualifications
Working alongside SOC analysts or similar team

Where you’ll work

We have easy-to-reach digital hubs – modern and vibrant workplaces, designed for and by our communities – in Leeds, London, or Manchester

In return for your skills we offer a competitive salary, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package. We have a fantastic benefits package built around your work-life balance including flexible working, charitable giving, discounts on shopping and fun days out, and lots more.

And we’ll give you an interest-free loan to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference.

Building our future

We believe the work we do really matters, so we’re serious about investing in your ability.

You’ll have access to a huge suite of training and learning opportunities to complement the new skills and experience you’ll acquire on the job, as well as the chance to share knowledge with colleagues from across the tech community and via our coaching and mentoring programmes.

For further information complete the enquiry form below or contact CHRIS.HUSTON@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK

Your contact will act as an expression of interest, and we will quickly get back to you with a full job description and details on how to formally apply.

The deadline for receipt of formal applications is 11/06/2018