Data Analyst

Job Title:                     Data Analyst

Location:                     Stoke Gifford, Bristol

Compensation:           £45,692 - £51,068 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72436

Use Data to Shape the Future of National Defence

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Data Analyst at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a Data Analyst, you’ll join a newly established team delivering insight‑driven modelling and analysis that supports Babcock’s long‑term submarine maintenance and disposal programmes. Your work will directly influence strategic decisions that underpin national security, infrastructure resilience and future defence capability.

Day-to-day, you’ll translate complex data into meaningful insights that support senior leadership and customers, while developing deep operational understanding of one of the UK’s most critical defence portfolios. In return, you’ll grow your analytical expertise, expand your technical skills and build a rewarding career within defence, aerospace and engineering.

• Develop and operate modelling and analysis tools to explore business scenarios and optimise programmes.
• Undertake targeted modelling to answer specific business questions and support strategic decision‑making.
• Build operational and strategic understanding to shape scenarios and options using advanced analytical techniques.
• Analyse supply capability against submarine availability demand across multiple sites.
• Create clear, impactful analytical outputs for stakeholders at all levels.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Babcock Technology Centre.

Essential experience of the Data Analyst

• Working knowledge of Python, with experience in a fast‑paced data analysis or programming environment.
• Strong capability in developing, running and maintaining complex models and analytical tools.
• High level of numeracy, logical reasoning and problem‑solving ability.
• Confident collaborator who can proactively engage with senior stakeholders.
• Clear communicator, able to present insights at all levels, with desirable experience applying modelling or analytical techniques within complex operational or engineering environments.

Qualifications for the Data Analyst

• A relevant degree or strong academic background in a STEM‑related discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 16/04/2026

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