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

 

Senior Data Platform Engineer

$175000 - $200000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
USA

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Senior Data Platform Eng

Location: Remote (Must be US based)

Pay: $175k – $200k Base + equity

No Sponsorship Offered

Overview:

This fast‑growing health‑tech company is building a connected data ecosystem that supports better outcomes across complex care environments. Data sits at the core of the product, enabling real‑time visibility, longitudinal insights, and smarter clinical and operational decision‑making. The team is investing heavily in its data platform to scale alongside rapid customer and product growth.
The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take ownership of the company’s data infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, secure, cost‑efficient, and built to support a wide range of data consumers across engineering, analytics, and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

  • Own, maintain, and evolve the core data platform built on modern lakehouse and cloud technologies
  • Partner closely with engineering, data science, ML, and analytics teams to understand current and future data needs
  • Design and implement live and streaming data ingestion layers (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis or similar)
  • Define standards for storage, compute, orchestration, data management, and provenance
  • Monitor infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost, forecasting future requirements
  • Implement and manage role‑based access controls and data governance practices
  • Build reusable tooling and frameworks for data consumers, including data quality monitoring and backfilling capabilities

Must‑Have Qualifications:

  • 5+ years’ experience in data infrastructure, data platform engineering, or data engineering
  • Hands‑on experience with Databricks in a production environment
  • Strong knowledge of modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures
  • Proven experience building and supporting scalable ETL / data pipelines
  • Experience with access control, data governance, security, and observability
  • Comfortable working in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments

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Power BI Developer

London

£475 - £500

+ Data Management & Governance

Contract
London

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Power BI Analyst – 6‑Month Contract
Series C Data & AI Scale‑Up | High‑Impact BI Delivery

As a specialist BI, Data & AI recruiter, I’m working exclusively with a rapidly scaling Data & AI start‑up that has just secured Series C funding after four highly successful years. This is a business that has proven its model, won major clients, and is now investing heavily in analytics to support its next phase of growth.

They are looking to bring in a high‑calibre Power BI Analyst on an initial 6‑month contract to help elevate how data is consumed across the organisation.

The opportunity

This role is ideal for a hands‑on, delivery‑focused BI Analyst who enjoys owning work end‑to‑end and working closely with stakeholders. You’ll be embedded with multiple teams, helping them articulate the KPIs and metrics that matter, then transforming those requirements into clear, intuitive Power BI dashboards used to drive real business decisions.

What you’ll be responsible for

  • Owning end‑to‑end BI projects, from requirements discovery through to dashboard delivery
  • Engaging with stakeholders across product, commercial, operations and leadership to define KPIs
  • Designing and building high‑quality Power BI dashboards with a strong focus on usability and insight
  • Writing and optimising SQL to extract, model and transform data from multiple sources
  • Acting as a trusted analytics partner – translating business questions into data‑led solutions
  • Working at pace in a fast‑moving, scaling environment

What my client is looking for

  • Strong, demonstrable Power BI development expertise (this is a dashboard‑heavy role)
  • Advanced SQL skills and solid data modelling experience
  • Proven end‑to‑end BI delivery experience
  • Confident stakeholder management skills – able to challenge and influence when needed
  • Experience working across multiple internal teams in agile or start‑up environments
  • High energy, ownership mindset, and a genuine interest in building analytics that drive impact

Why this role stands out

  • A chance to join a well‑funded, high‑growth Data & AI business at a pivotal point
  • Exposure to high‑visibility analytics work with clear commercial impact
  • Fast decision‑making, minimal red tape, and genuine autonomy
  • Ideal for contractors who thrive in scale‑up environments and like to see the results of their work quickly

If you’re a Power BI‑led BI Analyst who enjoys close stakeholder interaction and end‑to‑end ownership, this is a contract worth serious consideration.

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Senior Analytics Engineer – Healthcare

Remote

$140000 - $180000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
North Carolina

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Senior Analytic Engineer (Healthcare Data)

Remote – U.S. Based | No Sponsorship

A rapidly growing, tech-enabled healthcare organization is building out its next-generation analytics platform-and is hiring a Senior Analytic Engineer to play a foundational role in that evolution.

This organization operates at the intersection of integrated care delivery and modern data infrastructure, providing coordinated medical and behavioral health services to patients in long-term care settings. Backed by significant investment and scaling through acquisition, the company is making a major push into data, AI, and advanced analytics to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

If you’re someone who wants to own core data models, shape how the business understands its data, and enable AI-driven analytics, this is a high-impact opportunity.


The Role

You’ll sit at the center of the data ecosystem-owning the semantic layer and core data models that power BI, self-service analytics, and emerging AI/LLM-driven tools.

This is not a dash-boarding role. It’s a highly technical, business-facing position focused on transforming raw healthcare data into clean, scalable, and trusted data models that drive decision-making.

You’ll bridge:

  • Data engineering
  • Business context
  • Analytic consumption (BI + AI tools)

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data models using dbt and SQL
  • Own and define the semantic / metrics layer across the organization
  • Translate complex business questions into structured, reusable data definitions
  • Enable self-service analytics and natural language querying via AI tools
  • Standardize and govern key metrics across clinical, operational, and financial domains
  • Partner closely with stakeholders, BI teams, and data engineers to ensure data is accurate, accessible, and actionable
  • Structure data to support modern analytics tools (e.g., semantic layer platforms, AI-driven BI)

What You Bring

  • 6-8+ years of experience across analytics engineering, BI, or data engineering
  • Deep experience working with healthcare data systems, including:
    • EHR / EMR platforms
    • Medical claims data
    • Interoperability standards like HL7 and FHIR
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Clinical vs. transactional healthcare data
    • Claims and payer workflows
    • HIPAA-compliant data handling and governance
  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Hands-on experience with dbt (macros, snapshots, exposures, metrics layer)
  • Proven expertise in:
    • Data modeling
    • Semantic layer design
    • Embedding business logic into analytics systems

Nice to Have

  • Experience with modern data platforms like Snowflake or Databricks
  • Familiarity with semantic layer tools (LookML, AtScale, Cube, etc.)
  • Exposure to AI-enabled BI tools (ThoughtSpot, Sigma, etc.)
  • Experience with data observability or orchestration tools

Why This Role

  • Greenfield impact: Help define how analytic is built and scaled
  • AI-forward: Work at the forefront of agentic and LLM-driven analytics
  • Mission-driven: Directly impact care for underserved and high-risk populations
  • High growth: Join a rapidly scaling healthcare platform investing heavily in data

What Success Looks Like

  • A clean, scalable semantic layer that supports both humans and AI
  • Consistent, trusted metrics used across the business
  • Seamless self-service analytics for non-technical users
  • A strong foundation for AI-driven decision-making

Who You Are

You’re a hybrid thinker-equally comfortable with data modeling and business context. You’re curious, forward-thinking, and excited about where analytic is headed (AI, semantic layers, self-service). Most importantly, you want your work to have real-world impact, not just sit in dashboards.

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Senior Data Engineer (AWS, Airflow, DBT)

Birmingham

£80000 - £100000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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Senior Data Engineer

Up to £100,000 + Benefits
Remote – UK
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of end‑to‑end data engineering projects and play a key role in shaping a modern, scalable data platform.

THE COMPANY:

This a next‑generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. Combining sharp product thinking, bold branding and fast execution.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning end‑to‑end data engineering projects across the platform
  • Designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration tools
  • Developing robust data models aligned with industry best practices
  • Ensuring high standards of data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Driving engineering best practices, contributing to code reviews and mentoring other engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Python and advanced SQL
  • Building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines
  • Modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Data modelling methodologies (Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
  • Engineering best practices including testing, version control and clean code
  • AWS experience

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including private health insurance, income protection, flexible working, enhanced holiday entitlement and a fully supported home‑office setup.

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 Engineer (AWS, Airflow, DBT)

Nottingham

£80000 - £100000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Senior Data Engineer

Up to £100,000 + Benefits
Remote – UK
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of end‑to‑end data engineering projects and play a key role in shaping a modern, scalable data platform.

THE COMPANY:

This a next‑generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. Combining sharp product thinking, bold branding and fast execution.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning end‑to‑end data engineering projects across the platform
  • Designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration tools
  • Developing robust data models aligned with industry best practices
  • Ensuring high standards of data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Driving engineering best practices, contributing to code reviews and mentoring other engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Python and advanced SQL
  • Building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines
  • Modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Data modelling methodologies (Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
  • Engineering best practices including testing, version control and clean code
  • AWS experience

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including private health insurance, income protection, flexible working, enhanced holiday entitlement and a fully supported home‑office setup.

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 Engineer (AWS, Airflow, DBT)

Cardiff

£80000 - £100000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Cardiff

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Senior Data Engineer

Up to £100,000 + Benefits
Remote – UK
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of end‑to‑end data engineering projects and play a key role in shaping a modern, scalable data platform.

THE COMPANY:

This a next‑generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. Combining sharp product thinking, bold branding and fast execution.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning end‑to‑end data engineering projects across the platform
  • Designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration tools
  • Developing robust data models aligned with industry best practices
  • Ensuring high standards of data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Driving engineering best practices, contributing to code reviews and mentoring other engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Python and advanced SQL
  • Building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines
  • Modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Data modelling methodologies (Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
  • Engineering best practices including testing, version control and clean code
  • AWS experience

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including private health insurance, income protection, flexible working, enhanced holiday entitlement and a fully supported home‑office setup.

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 Engineer (AWS, Airflow, DBT)

Edinburgh

£80000 - £100000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Edinburgh

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Senior Data Engineer

Up to £100,000 + Benefits
Remote – UK
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of end‑to‑end data engineering projects and play a key role in shaping a modern, scalable data platform.

THE COMPANY:

This a next‑generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. Combining sharp product thinking, bold branding and fast execution.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning end‑to‑end data engineering projects across the platform
  • Designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration tools
  • Developing robust data models aligned with industry best practices
  • Ensuring high standards of data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Driving engineering best practices, contributing to code reviews and mentoring other engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Python and advanced SQL
  • Building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines
  • Modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Data modelling methodologies (Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
  • Engineering best practices including testing, version control and clean code
  • AWS experience

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including private health insurance, income protection, flexible working, enhanced holiday entitlement and a fully supported home‑office setup.

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 Engineer (AWS, Airflow, DBT)

Leeds

£80000 - £100000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Senior Data Engineer

Up to £100,000 + Benefits
Remote – UK
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of end‑to‑end data engineering projects and play a key role in shaping a modern, scalable data platform.

THE COMPANY:

This a next‑generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. Combining sharp product thinking, bold branding and fast execution.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning end‑to‑end data engineering projects across the platform
  • Designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and modern orchestration tools
  • Developing robust data models aligned with industry best practices
  • Ensuring high standards of data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Driving engineering best practices, contributing to code reviews and mentoring other engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Python and advanced SQL
  • Building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines
  • Modern data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Data modelling methodologies (Kimball, Data Vault, etc.)
  • Engineering best practices including testing, version control and clean code
  • AWS experience

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including private health insurance, income protection, flexible working, enhanced holiday entitlement and a fully supported home‑office setup.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

To Apply for this Job Click Here