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)

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Ecommerce Analyst – Contract

£300 - £400

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
Oxfordshire

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Ecommerce Analyst – Contract
Retail
£300-£400 per day – Outside IR35
Oxfordshire – 3-4 days per week in office

This is an opportunity to join a fast growing consumer brand and take full ownership of ecommerce reporting, insight and performance analysis. You will step into a critical gap where the business needs someone who can quickly create clarity, structure and actionable insights across their digital channels.

The Company

They are a direct to consumer product business that designs and manufactures all of their products in house. Their ecommerce operation spans website, digital advertising and a small amount of marketplace activity, with strong growth in both the UK and international markets. With a start-up style culture and rapid pace, they are looking for someone who can bring rigour to their data and help centralise performance insights. This contract will sit at the heart of trading, marketing and product teams.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Build clear, reusable reporting that can be understood across the business.
  • Deliver ongoing analysis and insights across trading, traffic, conversion rates and customer journey performance.
  • Link acquisition and advertising data to onsite behaviour to understand impact on trading.
  • Act as a central point for ecommerce data, creating a single source of truth.
  • Work closely with ecommerce, product, marketing and finance teams to inform decision making.
  • Drive investigative, proactive insight without the need for close direction.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong experience in ecommerce analysis across traffic, conversion and customer behaviour.
  • Confident working with GA4, BigQuery, Looker and SQL.
  • Ability to create clear, scalable reporting for non technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working autonomously in a fast paced, startup like environment.
  • Skilled at connecting digital advertising data with onsite trading outcomes.
  • Confident collaborating across cross functional teams.

How to Apply

If this sounds like a good fit, please apply with your CV and availability to start.

Ecommerce analyst / GA4 / BigQuery / Looker / SQL / Data Insights / Conversion Analysis / Customer Journey / Digital Trading / Performance Reporting

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Paid Social And Programmatic Executive

London

£35000 - £40000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Paid Social and Programmatic Executive
London, Hybrid
Salary up to – £40,000

This is a great opportunity to step into a specialist performance marketing role where you will directly shape campaign activation across paid social and programmatic channels. You will join a data‑driven environment that values collaboration, high‑quality execution, and continuous optimisation.

The Company
They are a well‑established consumer brand with a strong digital presence and an ambitious approach to performance marketing. With significant investment in paid media, they are focused on driving high‑quality traffic and measurable growth through innovative, insight‑led campaigns. You will join a supportive and collaborative team who work closely across marketing and product functions.

The Role
In this role, you will:
* Build, activate, and optimise paid social, display, and video campaigns.
* Use performance data to refine creative, targeting, and delivery strategies.
* Report on campaign performance and share clear recommendations with stakeholders.
* Manage activity against KPI and budget expectations.
* Partner with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver high‑quality assets and campaign execution.
* Support the evaluation of channel effectiveness and contribute ideas to improve performance.

Your Skills and Experience
You will bring:
* Strong commercial experience in paid social and an understanding of programmatic marketing.
* A solid foundation in digital marketing and how paid channels fit within the wider media mix.
* Confidence interpreting data, drawing insights, and communicating results clearly.
* Excellent organisation and attention to detail.
* Proficiency with Excel for analysis and reporting.
* A collaborative, proactive approach and comfort working in a fast‑paced environment.

HOW TO APPLY:

Apply by sending your CV to Joe by the link below

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Senior/Principal Data Modeller

London

£70000 - £90000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
London

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Senior Data Modeller / Principal Data Modeller

London – Hybrid (3 Days in Office)

Salary: Up to £90,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high‑growth consultancy environment where you will shape data modelling standards, influence enterprise‑level design, and work directly with senior stakeholders across complex financial services programmes. If you enjoy combining hands‑on modelling with broader architectural thinking, this role offers significant impact and clear progression.

The Company

They are a well‑established consulting firm with a strong footprint across financial services and energy. Their data capability exceeds 300 specialists, and their Data Architecture function is known for delivering high‑quality modelling, strategy and metadata solutions across large‑scale transformation programmes. They operate in a collaborative, low‑ego environment where expertise is valued and career progression is structured and transparent.

The Role

As a Senior or Principal Data Modeller, you will:

  • Lead and deliver hands‑on data modelling across complex programmes.
  • Design relational and dimensional models for transactional, analytical and enterprise environments.
  • Define modelling frameworks, standards, and guardrails for large transformations such as migrations.
  • Shape and document metadata, lineage, catalogues and source‑to‑target mapping.
  • Contribute to ETL design and data movement patterns across platforms.
  • Work with JSON, XML, Parquet and other semi‑structured formats used across financial systems.
  • Engage senior stakeholders and guide best practice within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Principal level: provide thought leadership, support revenue activity and lead client‑facing presentations.

Your Skills and Experience

You will be a strong fit if you can demonstrate:

  • Deep commercial experience in hands‑on data modelling (relational and dimensional).
  • Ability to design logical and physical data models and explain modelling decisions to stakeholders.
  • Experience working in consulting, financial services, or energy environments.
  • Capability in ERWin or similar modelling tools such as Sparx, RSA, Visio or related platforms.
  • Understanding of ETL flows, metadata management and how data is structured for AI, ML, BI and analytics use cases.
  • Comfort operating in client‑facing settings and contributing to delivery outcomes.
  • Principal level: additional experience in leadership, client development or shaping solution direction.

What They Offer

  • Exposure to major financial services organisations and high‑impact data programmes.
  • Supportive culture with ongoing learning and a strong data community.

How to Apply

If you are interested in this Senior or Principal Data Modeller position, please apply with your CV and we will be in touch soon.

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Lead Data Platform Engineer

Leeds

£75000 - £85000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Lead Data Platform Engineer

£75,000 – £85,000

Remote

You are a well-experienced Lead Data Platform Engineer, looking to take ownership of a modern lakehouse platform and shape best‑in‑class data engineering practices.

THE COMPANY

This industry-leading organisation serves specialist, people-first knowledge to its clients and is looking to provide further expertise by improving its data capabilities.

THE ROLE

As a Lead Data Engineer you will build a Databricks platform with ownership, shaping how data is engineered, deployed, automated, and governed in Azure.

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

  • Designing and developing end‑to‑end data platform solutions in Azure using Databricks
  • Building and maintaining automation for cluster management, monitoring, tagging, and platform optimisation.
  • Implementing CI/CD and DevOps best practices across data pipelines and platform components.
  • Taking ownership of design decisions and long‑term architectural direction.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Lead Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Deep expertise with Azure Databricks, including development, deployment, and platform‑level engineering.
  • Strong software engineering capability across Pyspark, Spark SQL and Azure Data Factory.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
  • Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across engineering functions.

BENEFITS

The successful Lead Data Platform Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £75,000 – £85,000 – depending on experience
  • Competitive bonus and benefits.
  • Remote work with a flexible 35-hour week that can be taken as a 4-day week.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Lead Data Platform Engineer

Liverpool

£75000 - £85000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Liverpool, Merseyside

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Lead Data Platform Engineer

£75,000 – £85,000

Remote

You are a well-experienced Lead Data Platform Engineer, looking to take ownership of a modern lakehouse platform and shape best‑in‑class data engineering practices.

THE COMPANY

This industry-leading organisation serves specialist, people-first knowledge to its clients and is looking to provide further expertise by improving its data capabilities.

THE ROLE

As a Lead Data Engineer you will build a Databricks platform with ownership, shaping how data is engineered, deployed, automated, and governed in Azure.

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

  • Designing and developing end‑to‑end data platform solutions in Azure using Databricks
  • Building and maintaining automation for cluster management, monitoring, tagging, and platform optimisation.
  • Implementing CI/CD and DevOps best practices across data pipelines and platform components.
  • Taking ownership of design decisions and long‑term architectural direction.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Lead Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Deep expertise with Azure Databricks, including development, deployment, and platform‑level engineering.
  • Strong software engineering capability across Pyspark, Spark SQL and Azure Data Factory.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
  • Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across engineering functions.

BENEFITS

The successful Lead Data Platform Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £75,000 – £85,000 – depending on experience
  • Competitive bonus and benefits.
  • Remote work with a flexible 35-hour week that can be taken as a 4-day week.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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AWS DevOps Engineer

London

£500 - £600

+ Data Engineering

Contract
London

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AWS DevOps Engineer
£500 – £600 per day
Remote

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast‑paced media organisation where you will play a key role in enhancing cloud infrastructure, streamlining delivery pipelines and driving automation across high‑traffic digital products.

The Company
They are a well‑established media organisation known for delivering innovative digital content to a wide audience. With ongoing investment in cloud transformation, they are focused on improving scalability, reliability and deployment efficiency across their platforms. They work in a collaborative engineering environment and value clean delivery, automation and modern DevOps practices. This contract will support one of their key digital programmes.

The Role and Deliverables
* Build, enhance and maintain AWS infrastructure to support digital media platforms.
* Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable faster and more reliable application delivery.
* Implement automation across deployment, monitoring and environment management.
* Collaborate with engineering and product teams to optimise cloud and platform performance.
* Ensure best practices around reliability, scalability and cloud security.
* Deliver clear documentation and handover to internal teams at project completion.

Your Skills & Experience
* Strong experience designing and supporting AWS cloud environments.
* Proficient in infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
* Skilled in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar.
* Confident working with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and ECS or EKS.
* Ability to build automation for deployment and platform management.
* Experience operating in modern DevOps environments within fast‑paced engineering teams.

How to Apply
If this sounds like the right project for you, please apply with your latest CV.

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Head of Data

London

£120000 - £125000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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HEAD OF DATA
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £125,000

This is a standout opportunity to build a brand‑new data function in a growing, PE‑backed environment where data will directly influence transformation, performance, and operational excellence. If you enjoy creating structure from complexity, shaping strategy, and embedding data‑driven thinking across a business, this role offers the platform to make a significant impact.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Head of Data will:
* Build and own a centralised data warehouse using Microsoft Fabric.
* Design and implement ETL pipelines and scalable data architecture.
* Develop dashboards and reporting for senior leadership and agency heads.
* Act as a data evangelist and educating non‑technical stakeholders at C‑suite level.
* Define and deliver a data strategy aligned with business goals and transformation plans.
* Lead a lean data team, assessing current capability, and transitioning contractors into permanent hires.
* Partner with commercial, operational, and finance teams to unlock insight and drive performance.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
* Strong experience building or scaling data functions from scratch.
* Expertise in data warehousing, data modelling, and modern data architecture.
* Ability to influence senior, non‑technical stakeholders and drive adoption of data‑led thinking.
* Comfortable working in fast‑paced or PE‑backed environments.
* Hands‑on capability with Microsoft Fabric or similar technologies.
* Advantageous but not essential: experience in agencies, media, marketing, or professional services.

APPLY BELOW!

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Head of Analytics – Financial Services

London

£100000 - £160000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Head of Analytics (Financial Services)

London (On-site)
£90,000 – £160,000 + bonus + benefits

We’re hiring a Head of Analytics to lead a centralised analytics function within a fast-growing, data-driven business undergoing significant transformation across analytics, AI, and decisioning.

This is a high-visibility role working closely with senior leadership to drive faster, better, data-led decision making across the organisation.

The Role

You’ll lead a central Analytics & MI team operating as a shared service across Finance, Marketing, and executive stakeholders.

Key focus areas include:

  • Moving from reporting to actionable insight
  • Embedding AI tools into analytics workflows
  • Driving automation and improved data structures
  • Supporting rollout of a new decision engine
  • Managing priorities across multiple senior stakeholders

This is a player-coach role (50/50 split) – combining leadership with hands-on delivery.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience leading Analytics / MI teams
  • Strong ability to turn data into clear commercial insight
  • Hands-on technical skills (SQL + Python)
  • Experience with modern data tools (e.g. Snowflake, Power BI)
  • Exposure to AI tools / automation in analytics
  • Strong stakeholder management, including senior leadership

Background

  • Open to any data-rich, commercial sector (FS helpful but not essential)
  • Suitable for an existing Head of Analytics or a strong Senior Manager stepping up

Why Apply?

  • Shape a modern, AI-enabled analytics function
  • High exposure to C-suite and business strategy
  • Play a key role in business transformation
  • Significant scope to influence analytics and AI direction

Find out more and apply via the link below!!!

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