Data Analyst

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role Background

NCIA, as the main ICT service provider in NATO, is the main technical entity providing subject matter expertise to support Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Science and Technology (S&T), NATO Digital Staff (NDS) Innovation Programmes of Work (PoW) and relevant exercises in 2025. NCIA Chief Technology Office (CTO) Innovating Team is looking for a Contractor who will provide day-to-day technical support to the PoW projects with the two NATO bodies.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction / guidance of the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff, they will perform the following activities:

• Support NCI Agency in the NATO Programmes of Work with ACT and NDS in the area of Science & Technology and Innovation
• Gather and analyze vast amounts of data from diverse sources, including scientific publications, news articles, social media, and market reports
• Perform horizon scanning and trend-scouting activities in the area of emerging and disruptive technologies by detecting promising technologies as well as potential applications
• Design and implement data models, repositories, and ETL pipelines to capture and record signals from diverse sources as a structured dataset to enable ad-hoc analysis and reporting
• Develop clear, concise, and actionable reports to communicate your findings to stakeholders across the organization
• Develop dashboards to enable monitoring of the analysis results
• Utilize natural language processing (NLP) and other AI techniques to analyze vast amounts of data from diverse sources

Essential Skills and Experience

• At least five years of experience in a mid-level data analytics role
• Strong understanding of AI and its potential applications in data analysis – particularly Natural language processing (NLP) techniques, language models and multilingual technologies.
• Strong programming, data modelling, and data visualization skills, including Python, SQL, PowerBI, R, TensorFlow and NoSQL DBs.
• Experience with Extract, Transform, Load tools and techniques integrating with REST APIs and document management systems.
• Proven experience with technology horizon scanning techniques and identification of technology trends and high potential use-cases.
• Proven experience with media monitoring, media data analysis, threat analysis in text and text classification.
• Proven experience with software/tool development in the area of strategic foresight analysis and horizon scanning.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills particularly as applied to trend scouting and innovation management

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Relevant experience with NATO and/or international organizations is highly desired.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (computer science, data science, software engineering, machine learning, etc.) or equivalent experience.

Working Location

• Remote

Working Policy

• Off-Site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance