Lead Backend Engineer
London / £90000 - £100000 annum
INFO
£90000 - £100000
LOCATION
London
Permanent
Role: Lead Backend Engineer (Backend Tech Lead)
Salary: £100,000
Location: London
Working Policy: Hybrid - 2-3 days a week in office (flexible)
Our client, a long-established and independent wealth management firm, is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join their technology team. They provide a wide range of financial services to retail investors, from wealth and investment management to pensions and digital investing, and are continuing to invest heavily in their technology capability.
This is a hands-on leadership role (around 70% coding, 30% oversight) where you'll drive backend engineering standards, design scalable systems, and mentor a small team of developers (senior, mid, junior). You'll have the scope to shape architecture and influence the company's broader technology direction.
The role will involve:
- Leading backend development projects with Node.js
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, efficient systems
- Overseeing code reviews, architecture discussions, and integration processes
- Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions
- Coordinating with QA, Product, and Project Office to ensure project delivery
- Mentoring and providing leadership to developers
What you'll bring:
- Strong backend development experience with Node.js (5+ years)
- SQL experience; RabbitMQ/Kafka and MongoDB/NoSQL a plus
- Technical leadership or mentorship experience (line management beneficial but not essential)
- Background in small to medium-sized organisations preferred
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with setting technical standards and direction
- Strong communication skills and collaborative approach
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a backend tech lead role within a supportive and fast-paced environment, with the chance to directly influence how systems are built and delivered.
If you're a senior backend engineer looking for the next step into technical leadership, apply now or get in touch to learn more.
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City of London
£330 - £400
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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Job Title: Senior CRM Manager (Contract)
Contract: 4 months (Outside IR35)
Day Rate: £330-£400 (4 day working week at the lower end of the range, 3 day working week at the higher end of the range. Client has a strong preference for 4 days.)
Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in office, Tuesday required)
Start Date: ASAP
Company Overview
Our client is a leading UK retailer with a strong reputation in both womenswear and menswear. They have invested significantly in digital and analytics to strengthen their customer engagement strategy. The CRM team plays a critical role in shaping customer journeys and driving performance through data-driven campaigns, particularly during peak trading periods.
Role Overview
This is a contract opportunity to step into a senior CRM leadership role during a peak trading period. The position has arisen due to an internal secondment, and the successful candidate will oversee CRM operations, ensuring smooth delivery of campaigns across loyalty, triggered and broadcast comms.
The Senior CRM Manager will act as the key point of contact for CRM, ensuring strong stakeholder management, seamless campaign delivery, and commercial performance through peak trading.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead the operational delivery of CRM activity during peak trading, including Black Friday and seasonal campaigns.
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Oversee three managers across loyalty, triggered campaigns and broadcast communications.
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Act as the conduit between CRM, ecommerce, creative and finance teams.
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Review performance reporting across channels, identify risks or gaps, and make strategic recommendations.
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Ensure smooth briefing and creative processes, escalating issues where necessary.
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Represent CRM in weekly trade meetings and update senior stakeholders on progress.
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Champion a customer-first approach, optimising journeys across email and push communications.
Success Measures
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Hitting peak trading CRM performance targets.
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Smooth and efficient cross-team collaboration, particularly with ecommerce and creative.
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Clear, actionable performance reporting and insights.
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Delivery of a joined-up CRM strategy across multiple teams and channels.
Essential Skills & Experience
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Proven experience managing a CRM function through peak trading in a fast-paced environment.
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Strong team leadership experience, particularly overseeing email teams.
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Expertise in segmentation, targeting, and customer journey optimisation.
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Ability to make strategic, data-led recommendations to improve performance.
Desirable Skills
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Experience with Emarsys.
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Retail background.
Interview Process
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1-stage interview
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Analytics Engineer (DBT)
London
£500 - £575
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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ANALYTICS ENGINEER
6-MONTH CONTRACT
SNOWFLAKE, DBT AND LOOKER
£500-£575 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
This role offers a great opportunity for an Analytics Engineer to join a fast-scaling digital business undergoing a complete rebuild of its analytics infrastructure. You’ll play a key role in reshaping how data is modeled, accessed, and used across teams – all with a focus on clarity, consistency, and self-serve analytics. The environment values autonomy, quality, and user-first thinking, with the freedom to shape best practices from the ground up.
THE COMPANY
This is a high-growth consumer business committed to data-informed decision-making across marketing, operations, product, finance, and customer success. They’re currently rebuilding their analytics platform with modern, scalable tools and need a strong contractor to accelerate this transition. Working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and remote-first environment, you’ll make a lasting impact on how data empowers the organisation.
THE ROLE
You’ll join the data team to lead the design and delivery of a new semantic layer in Looker. You’ll work with stakeholders across departments to translate business needs into performant, trusted data models using LookML and dbt. You’ll also play a critical role in shaping the self-serve analytics experience and ensuring the platform is intuitive, documented, and cost-efficient.
Your responsibilities will include:
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Rebuilding LookML models to reflect real-world business processes and logic.
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Designing and implementing dbt models that power clean, consistent metrics.
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Collaborating with business teams to understand reporting needs and deliver intuitive analytics experiences.
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Creating clear documentation for dashboards, metrics, and models.
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Ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency across Looker and Snowflake
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Supporting a stakeholder-first approach to data usability and access.
KEY SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive experience operating within Snowflake environments
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Advanced experience with Looker and LookML, including semantic layer modeling and dashboard design.
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Proficiency in SQL and dbt, with a strong understanding of data modeling best practices.
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Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex needs into elegant data solutions.
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Focus on usability, documentation, and data clarity.
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Comfortable working independently in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
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Experience rebuilding or refactoring a Looker instance from scratch.
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Familiarity with Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimization.
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Experience scaling analytics across a cross-functional organisation
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the apply link on this page.
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dbt & Snowflake – Analytics Engineer (Contract)
London
£500 - £550
+ Data Management & Governance
ContractLondon
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The Opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to join a leading marketing and brand analytics team. This role focuses on managing data ingestion and transformation projects, optimising dbt models, and supporting Looker dashboards. You will work closely with marketing and brand stakeholders to ensure data processes are accurate, documented, and maintainable.
Key Responsibilities:
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Own and manage brand and media data ingestion and transformation processes.
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Review and optimise dbt models (15-20 models) for completeness, accuracy, and automation.
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Maintain and document Snowflake assets, ingested tables, and analytics workflows.
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Support governance, process cleanup, and monthly reporting.
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Collaborate with marketing stakeholders, legal, and technical teams to ensure accurate data flow and reporting.
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Assist in delivering Looker dashboards and front-end experiences.
Technical Skills & Experience:
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Strong experience with dbt, Looker, and Snowflake (or other cloud data platforms).
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Knowledge of data ingestion and transformation processes (stakeholder-facing, not necessarily coding).
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Experience with marketing analytics and brand/media data preferred.
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Strong documentation, process governance, and problem-solving skills.
Soft Skills:
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Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
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Self-starter with excellent organisational skills.
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Detail-oriented, particularly with marketing and brand/media data.
Team & Stakeholders:
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Work within a marketing analytics engineering team, supported by project/program managers.
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Engage with brand, media, marketing, legal, and technical stakeholders.
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DBT & Snowflake – Analytics Engineer
London
£500 - £550
+ Data Management & Governance
ContractLondon
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The Opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to join a leading marketing and brand analytics team. This role focuses on managing data ingestion and transformation projects, optimising dbt models, and supporting Looker dashboards. You will work closely with marketing and brand stakeholders to ensure data processes are accurate, documented, and maintainable.
Key Responsibilities:
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Own and manage brand and media data ingestion and transformation processes.
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Review and optimise dbt models (15-20 models) for completeness, accuracy, and automation.
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Maintain and document Snowflake assets, ingested tables, and analytics workflows.
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Support governance, process cleanup, and monthly reporting.
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Collaborate with marketing stakeholders, legal, and technical teams to ensure accurate data flow and reporting.
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Assist in delivering Looker dashboards and front-end experiences.
Technical Skills & Experience:
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Strong experience with dbt, Looker, and Snowflake (or other cloud data platforms).
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Knowledge of data ingestion and transformation processes (stakeholder-facing, not necessarily coding).
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Experience with marketing analytics and brand/media data preferred.
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Strong documentation, process governance, and problem-solving skills.
Soft Skills:
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Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
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Self-starter with excellent organisational skills.
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Detail-oriented, particularly with marketing and brand/media data.
Team & Stakeholders:
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Work within a marketing analytics engineering team, supported by project/program managers.
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Engage with brand, media, marketing, legal, and technical stakeholders.
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Web Analytics Manager – Contract
City of London
£250 - £330
+ Digital Analytics
ContractCity of London, London
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Technical Web Analyst – Contractor
Agency
Fully Remote
£225-£250 per day – Outside IR35
Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead technical analytics setup and management for client campaigns
- Implement and optimise GTM containers, tracking plans, and tags
- Perform in-depth data analysis to support marketing and business strategies
- Collaborate with creative and performance teams to ensure accurate data collection
- Manage and maintain client analytics accounts and reporting
- Present clear insights and recommendations to stakeholders
Skills & Experience:
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- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data
- Experience with data visualization tools like Looker Studio (or similar)
- Familiarity with BigQuery is advantageous
- Excellent communication skills for client-facing presentations
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects
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Lead Backend Engineer
London
£90000 - £100000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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Role: Lead Backend Engineer (Backend Tech Lead)
Salary: £100,000
Location: London
Working Policy: Hybrid – 2-3 days a week in office (flexible)
Our client, a long-established and independent wealth management firm, is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join their technology team. They provide a wide range of financial services to retail investors, from wealth and investment management to pensions and digital investing, and are continuing to invest heavily in their technology capability.
This is a hands-on leadership role (around 70% coding, 30% oversight) where you’ll drive backend engineering standards, design scalable systems, and mentor a small team of developers (senior, mid, junior). You’ll have the scope to shape architecture and influence the company’s broader technology direction.
The role will involve:
- Leading backend development projects with Node.js
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, efficient systems
- Overseeing code reviews, architecture discussions, and integration processes
- Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions
- Coordinating with QA, Product, and Project Office to ensure project delivery
- Mentoring and providing leadership to developers
What you’ll bring:
- Strong backend development experience with Node.js (5+ years)
- SQL experience; RabbitMQ/Kafka and MongoDB/NoSQL a plus
- Technical leadership or mentorship experience (line management beneficial but not essential)
- Background in small to medium-sized organisations preferred
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with setting technical standards and direction
- Strong communication skills and collaborative approach
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a backend tech lead role within a supportive and fast-paced environment, with the chance to directly influence how systems are built and delivered.
If you’re a senior backend engineer looking for the next step into technical leadership, apply now or get in touch to learn more.
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Technology Director of Delivery and Operations
London
£11000 - £12000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Technology Director
London (Hybrid, 2-3 days per week on-site)
Up to £120,000 + bonus
The Company
A global leader in rental housing investment, development, and management, operating across multiple countries and brands. With a diverse portfolio spanning student accommodation, family apartments, and short-stay properties, the business is scaling its European operations and strengthening its technology function.
The Role
As Technology Director for Delivery & Operations, you will oversee property operations technology across Europe. Working closely with digital product teams and senior stakeholders, you’ll be responsible for implementing and enhancing core systems, managing high-value contracts, and ensuring technology enables seamless operational processes across the rental journey.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery and operations of property management systems across European markets.
- Act as decision-maker and advocate for new technology investments, including business case development.
- Manage a European delivery team plus offshore resources in India.
- Oversee implementation and optimisation of platforms such as Yardi, Entrata, and Salesforce.
- Drive efficiency and consistency in operational processes: from leasing to payments, deposits, and inventory.
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience delivering and managing property management, hotel, or logistics systems.
- Background in real estate, property, or hospitality strongly preferred (retail also considered).
- Skilled in managing teams across multiple geographies and working with offshore service centres.
- Digitally minded, with a focus on operational delivery rather than product development.
- Confident stakeholder manager, able to operate at Director level in a global business.
The Offer
- £120,000 base salary
- Annual bonus.
- Hybrid working, with 2-3 days per week on-site in Central London.
- Opportunity to shape technology delivery across multiple European markets.
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Senior Data Analyst
Orpington
£50000 - £70000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentOrpington, London
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Senior Data Analyst
Orpington (Hybrid – 3 days per week in-office)
£50,000 – £70,000
The Company
A fast-growing consumer subscription platform blending elements of e-commerce and entertainment. Following a period of rapid expansion, the business is now moving into its next stage of growth, with established partnerships and international markets on the horizon. Data sits at the heart of how the company operates, shaping decisions on customer growth, engagement, and overall performance.
The Role
With growth accelerating, the business is establishing its first in-house analytics capability. This role will be the go-to for data insights, reporting, and strategy – helping senior stakeholders understand performance and identify opportunities for growth.
You’ll work directly with leaders across Marketing, Product, and Technology, delivering analysis that influences decision-making at the highest level. Alongside building dashboards and reports, you’ll also take ownership of data priorities, support urgent requests, and help set the roadmap for how analytics adds value across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver actionable insights to stakeholders across Marketing, Product and Technology
- Develop and maintain dashboards in Looker Studio, ensuring reporting is timely and accurate
- Prioritise data requests and provide clear, commercially focused analysis
- Conduct data audits and contribute to a longer-term analytics strategy
- Translate complex data into clear, business-relevant insights
What You’ll Bring
- Strong SQL skills, Looker Studio, Python and BigQuery
- Proven ability to turn data into insights that drive business outcomes
- Commercially minded, with experience influencing marketing, product, or commercial teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience in e-commerce, betting, or gaming is a strong plus
- Proactive, hands-on, and comfortable working in a fast-paced scale-up environment
How To Apply
Please submit your CV via the link on this website
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Head of Data Engineering
Birmingham
£100000 - £120000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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HEAD OF DATA ENGINEERING
£120,000 + BENEFITS
BIRMINGHAM (Hybrid)
A strong Head of Data Engineering with experience leading large teams and driving migrations to Azure would be a great addition to this company.
THE COMPANY:
We are working with a client in the financial services space offering specialist lending and savings products. They have been investing in their data and are in the middle of a migration moving from legacy infrastructure to Azure.
THE ROLE:
You’ll be responsible for a 40-person function split across UK locations and offshore, ensuring mission-critical legacy systems continue to operate while leading the migration to modern Azure-based infrastructure. A Head of Data Engineering will need to:
- Lead and manage a 40-person Data Engineering team across multiple locations (UK and India).
- Manage and decommission four legacy data warehouses, while developing cloud-native solutions in Azure.
- Act as a mentor and technical guide to the wider engineering team during this cloud transition.
- Partner with third-party vendors to maintain and evolve the data estate
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful Head of Data Engineering will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong experience leading legacy-to-cloud data migrations (ideally to Azure).
- Background working with SQL Server in a regulated environment.
- Proven success managing large, distributed engineering teams (including offshore).
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £120,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.
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Lead Data Engineer
London
£85000 - £95000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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Role: Lead Data Engineer
Salary: £85,000 – £95,000 + bonus (flexible for the right hire)
Location: South Kensington, London
Working Policy: Primarily office-based (4 days a week) – some flexibility possible
I’m working with a global player in the shipping and commodities market, helping businesses move goods like oil, coal and grain by sea. Their clients rely on fast, reliable insights into ship movements, prices, weather, and more – and this team transforms complex datasets into clear dashboards and predictive models to give brokers an edge in the market.
They’re now looking for a Lead Analytics/Data Engineer to take ownership of building and scaling their centralised data platform (likely Snowflake), manage a junior engineer, and drive the design of future data flows, architecture and analytics across the business. You’ll work closely with research and senior leaders, giving you autonomy to shape the company’s data strategy and propose new ideas.
The role will involve:
- Leading on data engineering projects, building out the Snowflake-based data warehouse and pipelines
- Managing and mentoring a junior engineer
- Supporting research, analytics, and finance teams with structured, reliable data solutions
- Migrating legacy SQL Server systems into modern, scalable data platforms
- Contributing to data science and predictive modelling projects with the research team
- Linking multiple business datasets (finance, CRM, broker data, ship ownership) into a central, accessible system
What you’ll bring:
- Excellent SQL and Python skills
- Proven experience building centralised data platforms (Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, or similar)
- Strong data warehousing and ETL experience
- Ability to work in fast-paced, less structured environments and propose scalable solutions
- Experience mentoring or managing juniors (or ready to step into that responsibility)
- Background in commodities, trading, finance, or shipping highly desirable
- Bonus: DBT experience, data governance knowledge, and exposure to analytics/data science workflows
This is a hands-on role in a collaborative, face-to-face culture – perfect for someone who thrives in energetic environments and wants real autonomy to shape data strategy at the core of the business.
If you’re a proactive Analytics/Data Engineer ready for a lead role, apply today or get in touch to discuss further.
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VP Integrated Marketing
$189024.3 - $210027
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentNew York
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VP Integrated Marketing
Remote
Up to $200k + bonus
We’re working with a high-growth consumer tech brand operating in the subscription lifestyle space. With a sharp focus on digital innovation and customer experience, this business is looking to accelerate growth through brand building, multi-channel marketing, and insight-led campaigns. As they scale, they’re hiring a VP of Integrated Marketing to own and evolve their integrated marketing function across two flagship D2C brands.
The Role
As VP of Integrated Marketing, you’ll lead a high-performing team across brand, PR, social, creative, and consumer insights. Your mandate is to drive customer acquisition, retention, and lifetime value through cohesive, data-informed marketing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and lead the annual integrated marketing roadmap, including budget planning and KPI setting
- Own customer insight strategy – conduct research, interpret data, and apply findings to drive acquisition and retention
- Launch high-impact campaigns, activations, and go-to-market strategies for new and existing products
- Lead PR and media efforts to elevate brand equity and drive visibility
- Oversee social media and content strategies – growing audience, traffic, and engagement
- Manage the in-house creative team across copy and design, maintaining a strong and consistent brand voice
- Partner with external brands on co-branded campaigns and joint marketing efforts
- Track brand health, marketing performance, and campaign ROI – reporting regularly into senior leadership
Your Skills and Experience
- 15+ years in integrated marketing, ideally with digitally native, consumer-focused brands
- Experience leading full-stack marketing teams – PR, creative, social, brand, insights – in high-growth environments
- Deep expertise in insight-led marketing and translating data into actionable strategies
- Proven track record of driving brand engagement, customer acquisition, retention, and revenue
- Strong understanding of cultural marketing and ability to build campaigns that resonate with modern audiences
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Commercially driven with clear experience managing budgets, KPIs, and performance metrics
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Technical Web Analyst – Contractor
London
£250 - £325
+ Digital Analytics
ContractLondon
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Technical Web Analyst – Contractor
Agency
London – Remote
£225-£250 per day – Outside IR35
An innovative digital agency working across the Hospitality, Travel, Food & Drink, and Entertainment sectors is seeking an experienced Digital Analytics Implementation Contractor to join their dynamic team. This exciting opportunity is perfect for an analytics professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about turning data into strategic business insights.
As the Lead Analytics Contractor, you will be pivotal in managing and executing analytics initiatives for multiple digital clients. Your primary focus will be on technical implementation, including setting up and maintaining GTM containers, tracking plans, and tagging. You will also analyse data, create dashboards, and provide actionable insights to both internal teams and clients.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead technical analytics setup and management for client campaigns
- Implement and optimise GTM containers, tracking plans, and tags
- Perform in-depth data analysis to support marketing and business strategies
- Collaborate with creative and performance teams to ensure accurate data collection
- Manage and maintain client analytics accounts and reporting
- Present clear insights and recommendations to stakeholders
Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience with GTM setup, tagging, and tracking implementation
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data
- Experience with data visualization tools like Looker Studio (or similar)
- Familiarity with BigQuery is advantageous
- Excellent communication skills for client-facing presentations
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects
Benefits
£225-£250 per day outside IR35, London based, Remote
How to Apply
Register your interest by sending your CV to Lloyd Dunstall via the Apply link on this page
GA4 / GTM / BigQuery / Looker / Tagging / Implementation
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