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.

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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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Data Engineer (Databricks)

Birmingham

£70000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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DATA ENGINEER

£75,000 + BENEFITS

PRIMARILY REMOTE

This is a key hire within a data function, responsible for designing and building a modern, scalable data platform. You’ll lead the migration away from legacy reporting tools and help deliver a unified data lake/data warehouse.

The role offers real ownership, exposure across the business, and the chance to shape how data is used to drive decision-making.

THE COMPANY:

An established UK-based consultancy, specialising in property risk management and compliance, is looking to hire a Data Engineer to support a major phase of data modernisation.

THE ROLE:

  • Design, develop, and maintain a centralised data lake/data warehouse
  • Integrate multiple internal systems and data sources into a single, consistent data model
  • Lead the migration and decommissioning of legacy reporting systems
  • Build and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Develop and maintain data models and dashboards
  • Implement best practices around data governance, quality, and security
  • Monitor and optimise data pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Previous involvement in data warehouse modernisation or migration projects
  • Familiarity with data governance frameworks and compliance-driven environments
  • Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform)
  • Databricks experience
  • Dashboarding and datamodelling experience – e.g.Power BI

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary up to £75,000 depending on experience, plus a competitive benefits package.

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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Senior Data Scientist

London

£50000 - £85000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

LONDON- HYBRID

UP TO £85,000

Join a top lending fitnech where you’ll sit within the Data Science function, but specifically focuses on the US lending portfolio, working with a high-impact team with plenty of ownership and autonomy!

THE ROLE

  • Developing credit risk predictive ML models for US lending portfolios, primarily scorecard-based models
  • Building and enhancing income models, early repayment models, and forecasting models
  • Driving automation of lending decisions across the Loans portfolio
  • Supporting Credit Card growth, including new acquisition scorecards as volume increases through upcoming Experian integration
  • Owning the entire modelling process – from data extraction and feature engineering through to deployment (no separate engineering hand-off)

REQUIREMENTS

  • Strong data science/ modelling experience using ML techniques
  • Background in Financial services, Banking, Insurance or Gambling
  • Strong Python

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply below or send CV

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Digital Analyst

Leeds

£30000 - £35000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Data Analyst

Up to £35,000

Leeds – Hybrid (2 days in office)

We’re working with a global marketing agency that partners with household-name brands across multiple international markets. They’re looking to hire a Digital Analyst with experience working closely with marketing teams and delivering customer insight to join their growing analytics function and support insight-led decision-making.

The Role

As a Digital Analyst, you’ll focus on analysing digital and marketing performance while generating customer insights to inform strategy. This is a hands-on, insight-driven role within a fast-paced agency environment.

Marketing Optimisation & Performance Analysis

  • Analyse paid media performance across platforms including Google Ads, LinkedIn, and Campaign Manager 360
  • Build and maintain dashboards using Power BI (with exposure to Looker and Tableau)
  • Evaluate creative effectiveness, headlines, bidding strategies, and regional performance
  • Combine data from multiple sources, including GA4 and Adobe Analytics, to deliver actionable insights
  • Translate analysis into clear recommendations that directly inform marketing decisions

Customer Analytics

  • Analyse customer behaviour, loyalty, membership, and purchasing trends
  • Identify patterns, changes, and underlying drivers behind customer actions
  • Create clear, impactful visualisations and presentations for stakeholders
  • Communicate insights in a way that supports commercial decision-making

Additional Responsibilities

  • Contribute to ad-hoc insight projects across the agency
  • Support cross-client and cross-sector analytical initiatives

Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience with Power BI and Looker
  • Experience with GA4 and Adobe Analytics
  • Previous experience in a marketing agency or analytics-focused environment

Please note we cannot offer sponsorship for this position.

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Digital Analyst

Manchester

£30000 - £35000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Data Analyst

Up to £35,000

Manchester – Hybrid (2 days in office)

We’re working with a global marketing agency that partners with household-name brands across multiple international markets. They’re looking to hire a Digital Analyst with experience working closely with marketing teams and delivering customer insight to join their growing analytics function and support insight-led decision-making.

The Role

As a Digital Analyst, you’ll focus on analysing digital and marketing performance while generating customer insights to inform strategy. This is a hands-on, insight-driven role within a fast-paced agency environment.

Marketing Optimisation & Performance Analysis

  • Analyse paid media performance across platforms including Google Ads, LinkedIn, and Campaign Manager 360
  • Build and maintain dashboards using Power BI (with exposure to Looker and Tableau)
  • Evaluate creative effectiveness, headlines, bidding strategies, and regional performance
  • Combine data from multiple sources, including GA4 and Adobe Analytics, to deliver actionable insights
  • Translate analysis into clear recommendations that directly inform marketing decisions

Customer Analytics

  • Analyse customer behaviour, loyalty, membership, and purchasing trends
  • Identify patterns, changes, and underlying drivers behind customer actions
  • Create clear, impactful visualisations and presentations for stakeholders
  • Communicate insights in a way that supports commercial decision-making

Additional Responsibilities

  • Contribute to ad-hoc insight projects across the agency
  • Support cross-client and cross-sector analytical initiatives

Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience with Power BI and Looker
  • Experience with GA4 and Adobe Analytics
  • Previous experience in a marketing agency or analytics-focused environment

Please note we cannot offer sponsorship for this position.

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Senior Credit Risk Analyst

£60000 - £80000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
England

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SENIOR CREDIT RISK ANALYST

LONDON HYBRID OR FLEXIBLE WORKING OPTIONS

UP TO £80,000

Join a fast paced fintech who are on a mission to on a mission to simplify and reduce credit card debt. This is a super exciting Senior credit risk analyst role looking at aggregator performance and strategy.

THE ROLE

This is a high-impact, commercially focused role sitting at the heart of growth, pricing, and credit risk. You’ll take ownership of aggregator performance and funnel conversion, using data to drive smarter acquisition and better-quality lending outcomes.

  • Owning end-to-end aggregator strategy, working across pricing, eligibility, and risk rules to maximise approval and conversion rates
  • Analysing the customer acquisition funnel from aggregator click through to funded loan, identifying friction points and drop-off drivers
  • Optimising pre-approval, credit policy, and pricing strategies to improve conversion while maintaining robust risk controls
  • Partnering closely with Commercial and Product teams to test and refine aggregator propositions and journey design

REQUIREMENTS

  • Proven exposure to pricing strategy and commercial optimisation

  • Experience working with aggregators / price comparison platforms

  • Confident working with SQL (and ideally Python or similar)

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply below or send your CV

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Analytics Engineer/Senior Analytics Engineer

London

£75000 - £95000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Analytics Engineer / Senior Analytics Engineer

Permanent | £75k (Analytics Engineer) / £90k (Senior Analytics Engineer)

I’m recruiting for a growing digital business that is expanding its analytics capability and hiring at Analytics Engineer and Senior Analytics Engineer level on a permanent basis.

This is a great opportunity to join a modern data team and play a key role in building scalable, high-quality analytics foundations that support self-service BI and data-driven decision-making.


The Role

You’ll focus on designing and building analytics-ready data models and pipelines, working closely with data engineers, analytics specialists, and product owners.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Building data pipelines in dbt, transforming data from bronze to gold layers using Kimball methodologies

  • Implementing data quality frameworks and testing strategies

  • Owning the semantic layer for BI tools such as Looker and Power BI

  • Supporting self-service analytics and improving data literacy across the business

  • Acting as an SQL subject matter expert (Postgres, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Redshift)

  • Using orchestration tools such as Airflow to deliver reliable, automated pipelines

  • Contributing to IaC and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub

  • Collaborating across engineering, analytics, data science, and product teams


Experience Required

  • Strong experience in an Analytics Engineer or similar role

  • Advanced SQL and data modelling skills

  • Hands-on experience with dbt and modern analytics stacks

  • Experience supporting BI and semantic layers

  • Comfortable working in cross-functional team

If you are interested in the role please apply. To follow please message me on LinkedIn or email.

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CRM Manager – Contract

City of London

£350 - £351

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
City of London, London

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CRM Manager

£350 per day (outside IR35)

3 Months

Immediate start

Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the email marketing strategy and execution for acquisition campaigns.
  • Build and optimize lead capture flows, nurture journeys, and conversion-focused sequences.
  • Deliver BAU email campaigns and lifecycle journeys aligned with acquisition targets.
  • Collaborate with the lifecycle marketing team and growth manager to ensure consistency across push, SMS, and email.
  • Monitor performance metrics and report on campaign effectiveness.
  • Work closely with product and design teams to ensure messaging and creative align with brand guidelines.

Success Criteria

By the end of the contract, success will look like:

  • Fully operational email campaigns and lifecycle journeys.
  • Meeting or exceeding acquisition targets tied to lifecycle performance.
  • Smooth integration into the team and processes, with potential for permanent hire.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Proven experience in email marketing and acquisition marketing.
  • Strong understanding of high-volume eCommerce products and transactional flows.
  • Experience with lead capture, nurture journeys, and conversion optimization.
  • Familiarity with HTML (nice to have).
  • Experience with Customer.io or similar lifecycle marketing platforms

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Digital Markting Manager – Contract

London

£300 - £350

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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Digital Marketing Manager – Contract

£300-£350 per day (inside IR35)

Agency

London – Remote

Join a specialist communications organisation dedicated to societal and behavioural change. This is not your typical consumer-brand agency, their work focuses on countering misinformation, supporting democratic processes, and strengthening civil society.

Working with mostly public sector clients as well as international partners across Europe, USA and beyond. They have also delivered initiatives for global institutions, alongside selective private sector and non-profit clients where the mission aligns.

Digital Marketing Campaigns range from short-term awareness initiatives to longer-term capacity building, digital audits, and strategic advisory. You would be part of a small digital function in a multidisciplinary team covering paid and organic channels, digital strategy, research, analytics, UX, content and training. The Digital Marketing Manager will operate across multiple projects rather than a single campaign. This is a hands-on role suited to an experienced all-rounder who enjoys variety.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Act as the day-to-day digital lead on projects
  • Plan and execute paid and organic campaigns across Meta, Google and other platforms
  • Work with media buyers to optimise live activity
  • Analyse campaign data and drive real-time improvements
  • Upskill partners and stakeholders on platform usage (e.g. moving beyond Meta platforms, adopting TikTok, etc.)
  • Review analytics and platform data to identify gaps/opportunities
  • Produce recommendations to guide improvement

Skills & Experience

  • Hands-on experience with Meta Ads & Google Ads
  • Strong capability across paid search and paid social
  • Working knowledge of LinkedIn and X (Twitter) for campaigns
  • Ability to work in GA4 and platform analytics to extract insights and produce reports
  • Comfortable multitasking across multiple concurrent workstreams

Benefits

£300-£350 per day inside IR35, London based

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Lloyd Dunstall via the Apply link on this page

Digital Marketing Manager / Paid Social / Paid Search / Meta Ads / Google Ads / GA4 / Google Analytics / Performance Marketing

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