FCDO Services
Senior Technical Threat and Intelligence Analyst
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Senior Technical Threat and Intelligence Analyst
Reference number: 479585
Salary: £51,241 plus a location allowance of £1,750 and excellent benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Business area
Working pattern: Full-time
Location: Based in Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes with occasional travel to London and overseas sites
Free shuttle bus available between central Milton Keynes and Hanslope Park
At FCDO Services we protect the UK’s interests at home and overseas. We design and construct secure government buildings and courier diplomatic packages worldwide, safeguard government tech and a whole lot more. Our work is as varied and vital as it gets, but we never lose sight of our people. Their skills, aspirations and growth mean as much as the global mission we’re on. In our world, it all matters.
Beyond our worldwide work in construction, logistics, and more, we're also home to the UK National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping (UK NACE). Working at the cutting edge of technology, the teams at UK NACE guard against technical espionage, provide policy advice to the government, investigate threats, and more – all to protect our nation's secrets. Now, you’ve got the opportunity to join them.
Key Aspects of the Role
- Keeping the nation’s secrets, secret
- Working on one-of-a-kind projects
- Vital to national security
- It all matters
Use all your technical analysis skills as you help protect the UK from threat.
When you join us in this important new role you’ll:
- Analyse operational technical surveillance countermeasures
- Assist with strategic technical threat assessments
- Support research and development activities
- Use a range of intelligence and information sources to produce specific reports
- Lead the delivery of technical security incidents
- Respond to requests for threat advice and guidance
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver detailed consulting projects
- Ensure that all analysis work is expertly reviewed and conforms to Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment Common Analytical Standards
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Your day-to-day work will be extremely diverse, and include:
- Managing relationships with third-party suppliers of data, tools, and specialist skills
- Acting as a trusted source of technical threat expertise
- Deciding how analysis and outputs should be tailored and classified for different audiences
- Building relationships with external providers of intelligence and information
- Contributing expert advice to working groups and professional bodies
- Taking ownership of the production of technical threat assessments
- Identifying, evaluating, and developing new sources of data, tools, and techniques
- Identifying gaps in current analytical methods
- Sharing tradecraft with your less experienced colleagues
- Providing expert peer review and challenge on the work of other analysts
What You'll Need
To be a success in this significant senior role you should have:
- Working knowledge of the scientific and engineering principles that underpin technical security countermeasures, for example radio frequency theory, applied physics, electronic and electrical theory, digital signal processing, and acoustics
- Capability of reading large amounts of complex material, including technical papers, reports, and policies, and drawing meaningful, evidence-based judgments from these
- A sound understanding of risk and mitigation as it applies to a technical threat environment
- Proven analytical capabilities in either qualitative or quantitative data analysis
- The willingness to develop competence across these to support all-source assessment
Qualifications
You should be educated to a minimum of Level 3 in a technology-related discipline, which could be physics, engineering, computer science, or a subject such as technology journalism, technology policy, or a related field.
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Additional Requirements
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to present complex analysis to a range of audiences
- Capability of networking and building professional relationships with stakeholders at various levels of seniority
Career Growth
This is a role where you’ll enjoy excellent training and development opportunities as you grow your career with one of the UK’s most important security organisations.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Civil Service Pension
- Access to training and other development opportunities
- On-site gym, nursery, café, and restaurant
- Interest-free loans on season tickets and bikes
Join Us
Every single colleague must be security cleared before joining us. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo our vetting process to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. You can find out more about vetting at fcdoservicescareers.co.uk/how-to-apply/
To find out more about our benefits and our organisation, please visit fcdoservicescareers.co.uk
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Closing date: Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 4th October 2026.
It takes a diverse team to protect a diverse world
The vital work we do takes an incredible community of colleagues, with different skills, backgrounds, cultures, and identities. We support every individual, so that you always know you’re welcome and valued. It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And why we’re recognised as a ‘Carer Confident’ workplace. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation.
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