Data Analyst

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations. We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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 ID – CDT-0007

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• cleaning and structuring Allied-submitted response data and incoming data from a research institution;

• Standardising data formats, categories, and fields in line with the required taxonomy.

• Identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and missing elements in the data and flagging these to the Project Manager (PM);

• Conducting regular data quality checks (accuracy, completeness, timeliness);

• Reviewing data entries and confirming alignment with the NATO Cyber Response taxonomy.

• Ensuring proper data classification and tagging.

• Supporting the PM in preparing feedback to Allies and researchers.

• Working closely with the data engineer to ensure smooth ingestion and integration of data into the platform;

• Supporting testing of data upload tools, visualisation features and filters;

• Helping to document data and refine the Repository’s metadata structure.

• Producing insight reports on Allied response patterns (e.g., most-used measures, speed of response, clustering by threat actor).

• Identifying trends and anomalies in Allied responses over time;

• Preparing data-driven products to support Committee discussions, CDT leadership meeting and strategic messaging;

• Create dashboards and visual analytics.

• Supporting PM in preparing training materials (slides, guides, examples, videos);

• Support in demonstrating data entry and tool navigation during webinar sessions for Allies;

• Providing technical and analytical assistance to first-time users.

• Verify data analysis methods to ensure correct data analysis methods use, support in identifying trends and anomalies in Allied responses over time through a comparative analysis of the previous Pledge cycles (May-June).

• Support the automated creation of dashboards and visual analytics (June-July)

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Strong analytical and statistical skills.

• 2+ years working as a data analyst or similar role.

• Experience in data cleaning, transformation, analysis and visualization.

• Proficiency in Python for data processing.

• Ability to prepare visualisations, summaries, and other analytical products for non-technical audiences.

• Very good written and spoken English.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform repetitive tasks when needed.

• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Experience using ArcGIS software (ArcGIS online, ArcGIS Experience Builder)

• Experience from developing web applications.

• Experience from cyber-security data analysis.

• Experience in preparing education material and providing training to the end-user community.

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you, please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.