AI 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 –

Role Background

This Statement of Work (SOW) outlines the activities and deliverables for the automated extraction, classification, and visualization of information from NATO Programme of Work (PoW) projects and activities. This initiative aims to enable users to query NATO PoW information to obtain specific results using modern AI techniques. The task will initially focus on the analysis of time, cost and scope related information from project activities such as technology areas, links to strategic initiatives, EDTs, other scope related topics, cost of work packages, delivery and milestones dates based on analysis of project documentation e.g. Customer Request Forms, Project Management Plans and Highlight Reports.

NCIA manages a complex and evolving portfolio of projects for different NATO customers under several PoWs, including:

These 78 projects contain a total of approximately 200–250 work packages, each addressing specific activities related to a wide range of NATO strategic objectives and initiatives. Across these PoWs, some activities are covering the same, similar or related technical topics and there are opportunities to collaborate, reuse outputs and methodologies, track progress, ensure strategic alignment and avoid duplication.

By using modern AI tools and techniques, it will be possible to automate the analysis of project documentation, which is largely stored on NATO SharePoint platforms and updated quarterly, to generate responses to user inquiries and present results using dashboards and other tools. Manual analysis of these project documents, which has been conducted in the past, is time-consuming and open to errors which can be overcome with modern AI tools and techniques.

Whilst this initial task is limited to the automated analysis of NCIA PoW projects, it has the potential to be broadened out to include analysis of other related project and activities conducted by organisations within NATO (e.g. NIAG and STO) and external bodies (e.g. International regulatory and standardisation bodies).

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify links, common topics, technologies, and initiatives;
• Prevent duplication across PoWs, projects and work packages;
• Promote collaboration and reuse of outputs and methodologies;
• Improve visibility for strategic alignment with EDTs and NATO initiatives.
• Generate reports and visual summaries for dashboards, stakeholder briefings, and strategic reviews;
• Query the system using natural language to explore both high-level insights and deep project documentation;
• Drill into granular content from PMP documents and highlight how concepts, objectives, and timelines relate across PoWs;
• Perform business-level portfolio analysis through aggregation and filtering (e.g. by topic, status, stakeholder);

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• 8+ years of experience in applied AI.
• 3+ years of experience deploying and managing Large Language Models (LLMs).
• 3+ years of experience in developing GUI based interfaces for users;
• 2+ years of experience of developing intelligent document chunking, topic tagging, and semantic classification capabilities;
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience of generating visualizations, graphs and databases from extracted data;
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience of developing interactive Chatbot solutions that enable users to "Chat with Documents";
• 2+ years of experience with network filtering, access control, and cloud security architecture
• Ability to build automated experimentation environments with support for human interaction (benign/adversarial).
• Evidence and high-level overview of research methodology and models development process to build credibility and confidence in the bidder's ability to deliver.

Education

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

Working Location

• Brussels, Belgium

Working Policy

• Offsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• No Security Clearence required, however NATO Secret is preferred.

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