The Data And AI Podcast

This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

Latest Episodes

Data and ai podcast: All Episodes

Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

Data Recruitment & AI Talent Solutions

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Senior Backend Engineer

Los Angeles

$180000 - $220000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Los Angeles, California

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Senior Backend Engineer – Los Angeles (Hybrid) – $175,000 – $215,000

We’re building advanced avatar and AI companion technology that powers the next era of interactive digital identity. Our platform enables developers and creators to build game‑ready AI characters, personalized digital assets, and rich real‑time experiences. If you’re passionate about high‑performance backend systems, AI‑driven products, and solving complex engineering challenges, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and maintain backend microservices powering mobile and web experiences
  • Design and develop large‑scale ML infrastructure and compute‑heavy systems
  • Architect and optimize real‑time pipelines for reliability, performance, and scale
  • Develop backend applications that integrate ML models and data workflows
  • Improve automation, testing, CI/CD, security, and deployment practices
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams on roadmaps and requirements
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and team mentorship

What You Bring

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python or Golang
  • Experience building or supporting ML systems and high‑compute workloads
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems
  • Background with AWS or GCP, REST APIs, microservices, NoSQL/SQL databases
  • Familiarity with IaC, CI/CD pipelines, caching, event‑driven architecture
  • A proactive, collaborative, and creative engineering mindset
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What We Offer

  • Competitive equity packages
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO + company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Hybrid work structure (LA-based, 4 days onsite)
  • Modern, creative office environment
  • Strong culture of ownership, growth, and innovation

Our Culture

A fast‑growing, well‑funded startup that values curiosity, creativity, and thoughtful engineering. You’ll have the autonomy to shape systems from the ground up, influence technical direction, and work alongside people who love solving big, meaningful problems.

Interested?

If you’re excited about building scalable backend systems that power next‑generation AI and digital identity experiences, we’d love to connect.

Apply or message directly to learn more.

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Principal AI Engineer

Toronto

$180000 - $200000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Toronto, Ontario

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Principal AI Engineer
180,000-200,000 CAD + bonus + RSUs

3 days hybrid – Toronto, Ontario


About the Organization

Join a global company delivering intelligent information and technology solutions to professionals in legal, tax, compliance, and corporate sectors. The team is part of the organization’s innovation hub, focused on applying AI, ML, and data science to create forward-looking tools.

The environment combines the best of both worlds: startup energy with enterprise support. Projects include building agentic systems to automate tax prep and document summarization for legal and financial workflows.

About the Role

This is a tech-lead position, focusing on model deployment-ideal for someone with a strong foundation in software engineering and a passion for making machine learning work in the real world. You’ll lead projects for a team of AI engineers on experiments, iterate on PoCs, and help define how ML models are deployed, scaled, and maintained in production environments.

What You’ll Bring

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience in production environments
  • 2+ years of technical leadership experience working with AI / ML systems (Python)
  • Experience with ModelOps / MLOps / AIOps workflows
  • Background in:
    • NLP: Named Entity Recognition / NER, information extraction, and information retrieval
    • Numpy, Pandas, and scalable data handling
    • Cloud environments (provider-agnostic)
    • CI/CD pipelines, GitFlow, and Agile development
    • Logging, alerting, testing, and autoscaling systems
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with non-technical stakeholders
  • Independent problem-solver with a proactive mindset

Preferred Experience

  • Technical leadership on AI / ML products
  • Experience delivering LLM-based solutions
  • Engineering management experience, including mentoring or leading cross-functional teams
  • Familiarity with all stages of the AI product lifecycle
  • Startup or fast-paced innovation environment experience


HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.


KEYWORDS

Machine Learning | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | LLMs | Large Language Models | Artificial Intelligence | MLOps | AIOps | Platform | Infrastructure | Scalability | Production | Machine Learning Operations | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Containerization | PyTorch | Python | Deployment | Deploying | MLFlow | Kubernetes | Kubeflow | ModelOps | NLP | Natural Language Processing | GitFlow | NER | Information Extraction | Information Retrieval

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AI Transformation Lead

London

£800 - £1000

+ Data Science & AI

Contract
London

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AI Transformation Lead

£800-£1000
London
Outside IR35

This is a standout opportunity to lead a high‑impact AI transformation project within a major organisation undergoing significant change. You will shape how core business functions adopt AI and directly influence the way work gets done across the enterprise.

The Company
They are a well‑established, data‑driven organisation investing heavily in AI and automation. With multiple transformation workstreams already underway, they are now accelerating the adoption of AI across non‑technical teams. They operate in a fast‑paced environment where smart workflow design and impactful delivery are highly valued. This project represents a key part of their long‑term strategy to embed AI into everyday operations.

The Role and Deliverables
* Partner with senior stakeholders to understand current processes and redesign workflows across functions such as Marketing, Legal, Finance, People and Operations.
* Map existing workflows and identify where AI and automation can generate measurable improvements.
* Define target state processes and create longer‑term visions for AI‑enabled ways of working.
* Produce documentation, requirements and supporting artefacts for automation opportunities.
* Prioritise opportunities across a suite of AI tools and shape a 12 to 18 month productivity roadmap.
* Lead the discovery phase in the first 90 days to establish scope, opportunities and the art of the possible.

Your Skills and Experience
* Strong experience in programme leadership or transformation delivery in complex environments.
* Proven capability in process engineering, workflow redesign or operating model change.
* Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or cross‑functional programmes.
* Confident working with senior stakeholders and communicating complex ideas simply.
* Technical literacy to understand how AI can be applied to improve operational workflows.
* A structured, methodical and delivery‑focused approach to problem solving.

How to Apply
If this AI transformation project sounds like a strong match, please submit your application.

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Analytics Manager (Contract)

London

£600 - £600

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Analytics Manager (Contract)

London – based

6 months contract

Up to £650/day inside IR35

This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast paced cross functional squad where your work will directly influence growth across key UK markets. You will play a central role in driving operational efficiency, improving reporting quality, and enabling senior leaders to focus on wider strategic initiatives.

The Company

They are a well-established digital business with a strong footprint in the UK and a data driven culture. Their teams operate collaboratively across analytics, marketing, product and operations to deliver high impact customer and commercial outcomes. They value innovation, clear insight and scalable ways of working that support rapid experimentation and continual improvement.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Lead the execution of weekly promotional and customer growth campaigns across selected UK cities.
  • Coordinate deliverables across a team of analysts, ensuring deadlines and SLAs are consistently met.
  • Produce standardised operational reporting and dashboards that track customer behaviour and campaign impact.
  • Review analytical outputs to ensure accuracy, quality and clear insight.
  • Present findings to senior stakeholders and improve organisational understanding of campaign performance.
  • Drive process improvements, helping to standardise, automate and scale reporting and analytics delivery.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong project and delivery management capabilities.
  • Experience with operational analytics and campaign measurement.
  • Ability to guide analysts, spot errors and ensure high quality reporting.
  • Proficiency in SQL, Excel and Tableau.
  • Confident stakeholder management across multiple teams.
  • Strong attention to detail, problem solving ability and comfort working at pace.
  • Experience with promotional campaigns or customer analytics is highly desirable.

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.

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Senior Analyst (Contract)

London

£500 - £500

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Senior Analyst (Contract)

London – based

6 months contract

Up to £570/day inside IR35

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high‑performing growth squad where your analysis will directly shape promotional strategy and customer engagement for a major digital brand. You will play a key role in delivering fast, accurate insights that support weekly campaign activity.

The Company

They are a well‑established consumer-facing digital business operating at scale. Known for constant innovation and a data-driven culture, they rely on advanced analytics to optimise customer journeys and commercial performance. You will join a collaborative, cross-functional environment that values clear insight and rapid delivery.

The Role and Deliverables:

  • Deliver daily and weekly analytical outputs that support ongoing promotional and growth campaigns.
  • Take ownership of a dedicated focus area, for example a specific campaign or city‑level performance view.
  • Analyse customer behaviour, campaign outcomes and commercial performance to guide decision making.
  • Build clear data stories that simplify complex findings for stakeholders.
  • Create dashboards and reports using SQL, Excel and Tableau.
  • Recommend improvements to campaign execution and operational processes.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong capability in SQL, Excel and Tableau.
  • Experience working with customer analytics, commercial analytics or promotional campaign analysis.
  • Ability to simplify complex data and communicate insights effectively.
  • Comfortable working in fast paced, iterative environments.
  • High attention to detail with the ability to deliver accurate analysis at speed.
  • Advantageous experience working on promotional or incentive-based campaigns.

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.

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Platform Administrator

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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PLATFORM ADMINISTRATOR
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £60,000

This is an opportunity to step into a central role within a growing technology function, joining a business investing heavily in its platform, tooling and internal systems. You will play a key part in scaling their operational capabilities, acting as the technical bridge between junior support and senior engineering, and shaping how their core platforms evolve.

ROLES AND RESPNSIBILITIES:
The Platform Administrator will:
* Act as the technical escalation point for 2nd and 3rd line issues across identity, access, devices and core SaaS platforms
* Support user lifecycle management, permissions and administration across Entra ID, Google Workspace and internal systems
* Manage and maintain office and platform infrastructure including virtual machines, networks, hypervisors and monitoring
* Contribute to automation and internal tooling development using scripting or workflow tools
* Assist with infrastructure and platform projects, including visualising office infrastructure and improving performance monitoring
* Mentor junior team members and improve team processes, documentation and standards

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
* Strong capability across 1st and 2nd line support in a business environment
* Hands‑on experience managing IT equipment, users and access management
* Practical exposure to infrastructure, networking, firewalls or switches
* Experience supporting macOS and Windows devices, ideally via Intune or similar MDM
* Comfortable acting as a technical escalation point and solving complex issues
* Familiarity with virtualisation, Linux/Windows VMs, cloud or SaaS environments is beneficial
* Any experience with automation, scripting or containerisation is a plus

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Platform Administrator

London

£55000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Platform Administrator
London – 2 days in the office
Up to £60,000plus benefits

This is a great opportunity to join a fast‑growing technology‑led organisation where you will play a key role in shaping and maturing their core platforms. You will work across identity, MDM, infrastructure, and SaaS administration, making this a strong next step for someone who enjoys both deep technical ownership and hands‑on problem solving.

The Company
They are a rapidly scaling technology business using data, behavioural insight, and modern engineering to transform how users engage with their digital ecosystem. Their platform is central to their product offering, and they continue to invest heavily in security, automation, and infrastructure maturity. You will join a collaborative team operating at the heart of their technical operations, supporting their growth while driving improvements across their environment.

The Role
* Administer identity platforms including Entra ID and Google Workspace, owning user lifecycle, SSO integrations, and access governance.
* Configure and optimise Microsoft Intune for macOS and Windows devices, ensuring effective MDM policies.
* Support and maintain key SaaS and infrastructure tools such as AWS, Atlassian, Slack, and core internal systems.
* Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues, working closely with the Service Desk and engineering teams.
* Contribute to major projects including an MDM migration, assisting with testing, rollout, and user support.
* Manage on‑premise environments including hypervisors, virtual machines, and network devices.
* Automate manual workflows using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
* Maintain high‑quality documentation and support a culture of operational excellence.

Your Skills and Experience
* Strong capability in administering Entra ID, Google Workspace, or similar identity platforms.
* Hands‑on experience managing device fleets through Intune or another enterprise‑grade MDM.
* Knowledge of networking fundamentals including firewalls and switches.
* Familiarity with hypervisors and managing Linux or Windows virtual machines.
* Experience supporting SaaS platforms such as Slack, Jira, or Zoom.
* Ability to diagnose complex issues across operating system, network, and application layers.
* Confident scripting skills to automate workflows and integrate with APIs.
* Strong communication skills with a user‑focused mindset.

What They Offer
* Salary up to £60,000 plus benefits.
* Private healthcare once eligible, with wellbeing and lifestyle perks.
* 25 days annual leave and a supportive approach to work‑life balance.
* A collaborative, inclusive culture with regular team activities.
* Pension contributions and additional employee‑focused benefits.
* Clear development pathways and opportunities to broaden your technical expertise.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this Platform Administrator position, please apply with your CV.

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Head of Data Science

Leicester

£11000 - £130000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Leicester, Leicestershire

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Head of Data Science

A leading ecommerce organisation is seeking an exceptional Head of Data Science to define and deliver the data vision across a fast‑growing digital environment. This is a high‑impact leadership role focused on converting rich datasets into commercial advantage and world‑class customer experiences.

About the role:

You will lead the development of data architecture, models, analytics and reporting that underpin key digital products and customer journeys. Your work will accelerate performance across areas such as:

  • Digital advertising platforms
  • Product search and recommendation engines
  • Personalisation across web, email, and marketing
  • Data‑driven commercial optimisation

Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Leadership; owning and driving the data science roadmap
  • Lead the design and architecture of agentic models
  • Influence decision making across the business
  • Partner with senior leaders to set long-term strategy
  • Lead & Develop a high-performing data science team

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