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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.

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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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Welcome to a recruitment journey like no other. At Harnham, we're always interested in finding the right people to join our team.

 

Customer Analyst

Stratford-upon-Avon

£45000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

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Customer Analyst
£45,000-£50,000 + Bonus
Stratford-upon-Avon (Hybrid – 1x Day a Week in Office)

If you’re a SQL-heavy analyst tired of insight going nowhere, this is where your work actually turns into live customer campaigns! Brand-new role, strong team, and a business investing heavily in customer data + marketing capability.

The Company

You’ll be joining a leading UK insurer with a strong reputation for customer experience and long-term stability; they’re in the middle of a major data transformation, with new platforms, better access to customer data, and a real push towards data-led decision making across the business.

The Role

Sitting in the Customer Selections & Analytics team, you’ll own the delivery of campaign selections end-to-end. This is a hands-on SQL role with clear commercial impact.

Key responsibilities:

  • Build and deliver campaign selections using SQL
  • Translate marketing briefs into technical requirements
  • Work across CRM, transactional & engagement datasets
  • Support test & learn campaigns and performance tracking
  • Push selections into CRM (moving to Dotdigital)
  • Plan and manage campaign cycles 1-2 months ahead

You’ll work across Financial Services, Personal Lines & Commercial, giving you broad exposure across the business.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong SQL
  • Background in campaign selections / CRM / customer analytics
  • Experience working with large datasets
  • Ability to translate business needs into data outputs

The Benefits

  • £45,000-£50,000
  • Bonus

How to Apply

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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Forward Deployed Engineer

New York

$150000 - $200000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
New York

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Forward Deployed Engineer (AI & Data Consultant)

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid w/ travel)
Pay: $150k – $200k Base + bonus


Overview

This role sits within a high‑growth data, digital, and AI consultancy focused on helping enterprise organisations unlock value through advanced analytics, AI, and modern data platforms. The team is known for delivering practical, production‑ready solutions in fast‑moving, complex environments while enabling clients to adopt responsible and scalable AI capabilities.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer Consultant, you will work directly inside client teams to design, build, and deploy data and AI solutions that drive real business impact. The role is hands‑on, delivery‑focused, and ideal for engineers who enjoy working close to stakeholders while learning new systems quickly.


Responsibilities

  • Embed directly within client teams to build and deploy AI and data solutions in live enterprise environments
  • Develop Python and SQL pipelines to extract, transform, and operationalise data
  • Build and configure AI components and data products within established platform architectures
  • Extend and customise enterprise AI and data platforms to meet client requirements
  • Participate in client stand‑ups, technical working sessions, and delivery cadences
  • Deliver working solutions rapidly while operating in complex, evolving environments
  • Document technical solutions and support knowledge transfer to client stakeholders

Must‑Have Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a forward‑deployed technical role
  • Strong hands‑on experience with Python and SQL
  • Experience working with at least one enterprise data or AI platform (e.g. Palantir Foundry or cloud‑native equivalents)
  • Comfort working directly within client environments with limited oversight
  • Ability to clearly document technical work and explain outputs to non‑technical stakeholders

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Data Analyst

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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DATA ANALYST

UP TO £55,000

LONDON/ HYBRID

OVERVIEW

This is a highly visible role sitting within the Group Finance team, where you’ll act as the Power BI SME across the function while working closely with senior leadership.

THE ROLE

You’ll be responsible for building and developing Power BI dashboards, improving reporting processes and helping drive the transition from manual reporting towards more automated, real-time insights.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing dashboards using Power BI, DAX & Power Query
  • Extracting and consolidating data from multiple sources
  • Supporting monthly and ad hoc reporting cycles
  • Partnering with senior finance stakeholders across the business
  • Supporting major transformation projects including a new consolidation platform and central data lake

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

  • Strong Power BI experience (essential)
  • Advanced DAX & Power Query skills
  • SQL knowledge
  • Finance or accounting exposure highly desirable
  • 3-5 years’ experience within data/reporting analytics

This is a really strong opportunity for someone looking to combine technical reporting expertise with finance transformation exposure, while helping shape the future reporting landscape of the business.

If you’d be interested in hearing more, feel free to drop me a message or email @

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Senior Analytics Engineer

Costa Mesa

$206884.9 - $219054.6

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Costa Mesa, California

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This role sits at the intersection of analytics and data engineering and focuses on data modeling, pipelines, and trusted datasets rather than reporting.

You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and analytics stakeholders to design scalable data models and pipelines that enable self service analytics, automation, and measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain canonical data models including facts, dimensions, and entities to support analytics and reporting
  • Build and optimize batch and near real time data pipelines using SQL and Python
  • Develop analytics transformations using modern analytics engineering tools such as dbt
  • Work with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks to process large scale datasets
  • Ensure data quality, freshness, and reliability through testing, validation, and monitoring
  • Partner with stakeholders to translate business problems into durable data solutions
  • Reduce data duplication by centralizing models and creating reusable datasets
  • Support dashboards and self service analytics by delivering clean, well documented data products
  • Contribute to data governance, access controls, and best practices

Required Qualifications

  • 6 or more years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering roles
  • Strong SQL and Python skills
  • Solid experience with data modeling including star and snowflake schemas and slowly changing dimensions
  • Hands on experience with Snowflake and or Databricks
  • Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines for analytics use cases
  • Familiarity with dbt, Airflow, or similar orchestration and transformation tools
  • Experience working with large and complex datasets in production environments
  • Ability to operate as an individual contributor and own work end to end

Nice to Have

  • Experience with operational or near real time analytics
  • Exposure to regulated domains such as healthcare, finance, or privacy focused systems
  • Experience supporting analytics or data science teams
  • Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Event Hubs

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Data Scientist – Credit

London

£55000 - £65000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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Data Scientist – Credit Risk
£55-65,000
London

THE COMPANY

This business are a dynamic and fast-paced lender and are seeking a driven and experienced individual to join their team in building out their predictive models using cutting-edge Machine Learning techniques. This role is an opportunity for someone to be part of a successful company which is continuing to grow whilst driving impact in your work at the forefront of the market.

THE ROLE

  • Work across a range of credit models within the business, predominantly scorecards and broader decisioning models
  • Using innovative machine learning techniques to further enhance the model suite and drive profitability across the business
  • Own the deployment and implementation of predictive models across the product suite
  • Working closely with the Credit and Product teams to enhance performance and profitability across the business by collaborating on strategies and model enhancements

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Essential to have experience developing predictive models, ideally within credit risk
  • SQL and Python experience is essential
  • Essential to have experience using Machine Learning techniques to develop non-linear models
  • Experience in a fast-paced environment and ability to work across multiple projects, in a FinTech

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • Base salary from £55-65,000
  • Company pension scheme
  • Private medical care
  • Equity scheme

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link

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Pricing Analyst

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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PRICING ANALYST

UP TO £60,000 + Discretionary Bonus

LONDON

HYBRID WORKING POLICY – 3 DAYS A WEEK IN OFFICE

Are you looking to work at a successful fintech? Become a pricing analyst, building NPV models and developing pricing strategy. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working with data, programming, and turning analysis into commercial decisions that improve customer outcomes and portfolio performance. If you like owning your work, building strong data foundations, and learning fast in a high-impact environment, this role will give you exposure across pricing, unit economics, and portfolio strategy.

THE COMPANY

This UK‑based fintech lender provides simple, digital finance solutions, helping customers secure loans and get pre‑approved online without impacting their credit score. The company uses technology and dealer partnerships to streamline the car‑buying journey, matching customers with vehicles and flexible finance options in a fast, user‑friendly process.

THE ROLE

As a Pricing Analyst you will work closely with colleagues across Commercial, Product, Data Science, and Engineering. You will develop and manage deterministic pricing strategies and decision rules that support responsible lending and strong originations performance.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Analyse data and build pricing strategies to improve profitability, customer outcomes, and portfolio performance.
  • Monitor, test, and optimise pricing models, using data insights to recommend commercial decisions.
  • Run experiments (e.g. A/B testing) and scenario analyses to evaluate how pricing performs under different conditions.
  • Develop financial and unit economics models to assess performance across different products, segments, and channels.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful pricing analyst will have the following skills and experience:

  • 2-4 years of experience in pricing, credit risk or consumer finance analytics
  • Strong statistical modelling skills
  • Confidence in creating reliable reusable analytical code and working with version control
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL

BENEFITS

The successful pricing analyst will receive a salary up to £60,000 as well as a discretionary bonus.

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Footprint Analytics Manager

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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ANALYTICS MANAGER

UP TO £70,000 + BENEFITS

LONDON AND OTHER LOCATIONS

REMOTE WORKING POLICY – ONCE A WEEK IN OFFICE

Are you looking to work at one of the best insurance companies in the UK? Become a Manager, analysing how pricing decisions play out across the live portfolio and whether customer segments are delivering as intended. Use loss‑ratio led insights to steer risk selection, challenge pricing intent, and influence how millions of customers are priced across a digital‑first insurer.

THE COMPANY

This digital‑first general insurer serves millions of UK customers across personal lines products, with technology and analytics at the core of how decisions are made. The business has seen strong, profitable growth and significant headcount expansion in recent years, backed by sustained investment in advanced data science and pricing capability.

THE ROLE

As an Analytics Manager you will monitor how each modelled customer segments are performing and decide whether the actual outcome matches the pricing intent.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Using loss ratio led analytics to assess whether each segment is delivering against pricing intent and remains commercially viable.
  • Validating whether cohorts should remain open, be repriced, constrained or redesigned to prevent emerging portfolio risks
  • Providing clear evidence-based recommendations to modelling and pricing teams to refine strategies and models.
  • Defining problems, coordinating across pricing, data science, underwriting and governance, and recommending portfolio actions to leadership.
  • Challenging pricing decisions where necessary and maintaining alignment with FCA expectations and internal standards.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Analytics Manager will have the following skills and experience:

  • 3-5 years of experience
  • Insurance experience from consumer/personal lines insurers
  • Pricing, underwriting or portfolio analytics experience
  • Proficiency in Python or SQL

BENEFITS

The successful Analytics Manager will receive a salary up to £70,000 as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

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DataCenter Architect

Dallas

$200000 - $230000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Dallas, Texas

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Data Center Network Architect

Location: Dallas, TX – onsite 5 days per week
Compensation: Up to $235,000 base salary + two bonus components + equity

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Network Architect to help design, scale, and modernize large enterprise data center environments. This role is focused specifically on data center network architecture and fabric design – not general IT infrastructure, facilities management, or traditional network operations.

The ideal candidate has been directly involved in designing and deploying modern data center network fabrics, ideally across multiple data center rollouts, migrations, expansions, or large-scale modernization programs.

This is a hands-on architecture role that will partner closely with infrastructure, server, storage, cloud, security, operations, and leadership teams to build reliable, scalable, and high-performance data center network environments.


What You’ll Be Doing

Data Center Network Architecture

Design and support modern data center network architectures, including spine-leaf fabrics, network segmentation, routing, switching, and high-availability patterns.

Develop scalable, resilient architectures that support enterprise infrastructure, private cloud, hybrid cloud, compute, storage, and high-performance workloads.

Fabric Design & Deployment

Lead or contribute to the design, deployment, and optimization of data center network fabrics.

Relevant technologies may include:

  • Arista EOS / CloudVision
  • Cisco Nexus / ACI / NDFC
  • EVPN / VXLAN
  • BGP underlay / overlay
  • Spine-leaf / CLOS architectures
  • Multi-site data center fabrics
  • Border leaf / services leaf design
  • Routing, switching, segmentation, and traffic flow design

Data Center Rollouts & Modernization

Support data center buildouts, migrations, expansions, hardware refreshes, and modernization initiatives.

Help translate business and technical requirements into implementation-ready architecture, documentation, and execution plans.

Technical Documentation

Create and maintain architecture documentation, including:

  • HLDs / LLDs
  • Network diagrams
  • BOMs
  • MOPs / SOPs
  • Migration plans
  • Cutover plans
  • Runbooks
  • Standards and reference architectures

Cross-Functional Partnership

Work closely with server, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, facilities, and operations teams to ensure the network fabric supports broader infrastructure goals.

Partner with vendors, consultants, and internal engineering teams on design validation, implementation planning, troubleshooting, and ongoing optimization.

Performance, Availability & Reliability

Help ensure data center networks are highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable.

Support capacity planning, network performance improvements, resiliency reviews, and operational readiness for production environments.


What We’re Looking For

Required Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in data center network architecture, engineering, or implementation
  • Direct experience with data center network design, deployment, or modernization
  • Strong understanding of spine-leaf / CLOS architecture
  • Experience with data center routing and switching
  • Experience with BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IP addressing, segmentation, and high-availability design
  • Experience with data center migrations, expansions, buildouts, refreshes, or fabric deployments
  • Ability to create clear technical documentation, diagrams, implementation plans, and runbooks
  • Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to work onsite in Dallas 5 days per week

Highly Preferred Experience

  • Arista EOS and/or CloudVision
  • Cisco Nexus, ACI, or NDFC
  • EVPN / VXLAN
  • BGP underlay / overlay design
  • Multi-site data center fabric architecture
  • Data center network automation using Ansible, Python, Terraform, APIs, or similar tools
  • Experience in large enterprise, technology, semiconductor, cloud, colocation, financial services, or infrastructure consulting environments
  • Experience working with server, storage, virtualization, private cloud, or hybrid cloud teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, GPU clusters, or high-performance data center environments
  • Juniper Apstra, VMware NSX, or comparable fabric/network virtualization platforms
  • Data center security integration experience with Palo Alto, F5, Fortinet, Cisco ISE, or similar tools
  • Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, Arista ACE, or equivalent data center/networking credentials

Ideal Backgrounds

We are especially interested in candidates coming from:

  • Data center network architecture
  • Data center fabric design
  • Network infrastructure consulting
  • Technology infrastructure integrators
  • Colocation / data center providers
  • Large enterprise infrastructure teams
  • Cloud, semiconductor, financial services, manufacturing, or high-scale technology environments

Relevant previous titles may include:

  • Data Center Network Architect
  • Data Center Network Engineer
  • Network Fabric Architect
  • Principal Network Engineer
  • Network Infrastructure Architect
  • Network Solutions Architect
  • Data Center Solutions Architect
  • Cloud Network Architect
  • Private Cloud Network Architect
  • Infrastructure Architect
  • Lead Network Engineer
  • Cisco ACI / Nexus Architect
  • Arista Network Architect
  • EVPN / VXLAN Architect

What This Role Is Not

This is not a general helpdesk, NOC, wireless, telecom, or facilities role.

While data center operations experience is helpful, the core need is someone who has been directly involved in data center network fabric design and rollout.

The right person should be able to discuss architecture decisions around spine-leaf design, fabric scalability, routing, segmentation, migration planning, and production readiness.

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