About this job

Roke imagines a more secure world. A world where technology protects, rather than exposes. A world where expert engineers, consultants and business support staff collaborate to protect what matters most to our clients.

We are a friendly and flexible team with a culture of ‘time, trust and freedom’. The role may give the opportunity to work on client site, from the office, in shared workspaces or from home as necessary. We pride ourselves on listening to each other’s aspirations and accommodating wherever possible.

Roke has a wide range of exciting opportunities for experienced Software Engineers with proven track record in Data Science, to join our Defence or National Security Business Units in the Hampshire area.

Responsibilities

This role will expand your abilities through working alongside our wealth of specialist Data Scientists and Software Engineers on various projects, from rapidly prototyped research right through to high grade enterprise systems.

You could be developing data science solutions within one or more of our client side teams around the UK or working on our ground-breaking projects within the scenic grounds of our Romsey site.

If you’d like, you could also provide technical leadership to junior member, as well as, interacting with stakeholders during the development cycle. Just let us know your interests.  Our data analytics work encompasses all types of data, including structured and unstructured data (such as text and image). We use a variety of software, picking the best approach to suit the customers’ needs. For example, you might exploit your software expertise to solve big data or data streaming challenges using open source technologies.

Alternatively, you might use your statistical background to develop machine-learned models to classify data. Perhaps, you will specialise in data visualisation techniques in order to enable our customers to easily access the required information from their data. Regardless, your projects will be diverse – working with varying clients, across a number of sectors, using a range of skills. Consequently, we are looking for individuals able to work flexibly across projects in different domains. You might apply your skills to rapidly prototype new approaches & solutions. Equally, you may apply them to complement or advance existing solutions.

Profile

You will have data science expertise; however, as this is such a broad area we would consider experience in a subset of any of the following:

• Large scale (‘big data’) data ecosystems, cloud infrastructure and analytic frameworks.
• Machine learning and Deep Neural Net technologies
• Techniques and toolkits for data cleansing, data preparation, data processing, fusion and analysis
• Techniques and toolkits for combining data or analysing data streams in real time
• Programming languages and techniques for visualising data

You enjoy growing your skills and those of your team by regularly learning about new technologies. Most importantly, you judge your achievements by the success and happiness of your team and its customers.

Roke also operates in the fields of network communications, network connectivity, autonomy and cyber and your familiarity with underpinning concepts in one or more of these areas would be beneficial but not essential.

Beyond your technical skills, you will be proactive and able to communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will work well alone or as part of a team. You will be curious and seek out the best approach/solution/tool for the job at hand.

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of DV clearance. To qualify, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.