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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
London
£80000 - £90000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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Senior/Lead Credit Risk Analyst
Salary
£70,000-£90,000 + equity
Location + work pattern
London (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)
THE COMPANY
This organisation is a rapidly scaling FinTech business focused on helping individuals better manage their finances. With a strong social impact focus and significant recent investment, they are expanding their lending capabilities and building a best-in-class credit risk function. The business operates at scale across the UK and internationally, offering a unique opportunity to work with rich behavioural and transactional data.
THE ROLE
You will play a key role in shaping and optimising credit strategy for an evolving lending portfolio, working within a collaborative and high-performing analytics team. This is an opportunity to take ownership of strategy development and drive meaningful business impact.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in:
- Designing and optimising credit risk strategies aligned with business objectives
- Analysing complex data sets to uncover insights and inform decision-making
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement and refine strategies
- Monitoring performance of credit strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Enhancing affordability and risk policies to ensure strong customer outcomes
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience in credit risk analytics within a consumer lending environment
- Must be currently in a fintech environment
- Experience using analytics to build and adjust credit risk strategy in either acquisitions, collections or Existing customer management.
- Strong SQL skills, with experience using data to generate actionable insights
- Ability to structure and solve complex analytical problems
- Experience working in fast-paced, data-driven environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain insights to stakeholders
THE BENEFITS
- Competitive salary and performance-related incentives
- Hybrid working model with flexible arrangements
- Comprehensive private healthcare and wellbeing support
- Generous annual leave allowance with additional flexibility
- Access to a wide range of lifestyle and salary sacrifice benefits
THE PROCESS
- Initial conversation with the hiring team
- Technical and competency-based interview
- Final stage in-person interview
- Offer!
HOW TO APPLY
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AI Engineering Lead
London
£100000 - £150000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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AI Engineering Lead
Remote (UK-based, with occasional travel)
This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of AI strategy and delivery within a fast-scaling, international business. You will shape how artificial intelligence is applied across multiple industries, working directly with senior leadership to turn innovation into measurable commercial impact.
The Role
- Define and deliver the AI strategy across a diverse group of businesses
- Design scalable architecture and build production-ready AI systems
- Identify and prioritise high-impact use cases that drive efficiency and commercial value
- Evaluate and implement tools, platforms, and frameworks for AI deployment
- Work closely with senior stakeholders, including C-level leadership, to align AI initiatives with business goals
- Establish best practices for AI engineering, deployment, and governance
- Support adoption across decentralised teams while enabling local autonomy
- Act as the senior technical lead for AI, shaping future capability and direction
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience building and deploying AI-powered applications
- Hands-on expertise with Python and modern AI tooling, including large language models
- Experience designing and implementing scalable technical architectures
- Understanding of prompt design, retrieval-based systems, and orchestration frameworks
- Experience integrating AI solutions into business systems and workflows
- Comfortable working across both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-moving, evolving environment
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Credit Analyst
London
£50000 - £70000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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Role Title
Credit Analyst
Salary
£50,000-£70,000
Location + work pattern
London (Hybrid – typically 2 days per week in office)
THE COMPANY
This organisation is a UK-based FinTech focused on helping customers manage and reduce personal debt through innovative lending solutions. They leverage open banking data to better understand customer behaviour and improve financial outcomes. With strong growth and a clear mission-driven approach, they offer an opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a modern lending business.
THE ROLE
This role sits within a data and lending function, focused on improving decision-making processes across credit and underwriting. You will play a key part in automating decisions and enhancing the accuracy of lending strategies through data analysis.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in:
- Developing and improving automated credit decisioning and underwriting processes
- Analysing lending and customer data to optimise risk and approval strategies
- Collaborating with product, engineering, and credit teams to enhance decision systems
- Utilising open banking data to deepen customer insights and risk assessments
- Evaluating affordability and improving methodologies used in lending decisions
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience working in credit risk within a lending environment
- Strong understanding of underwriting and data-led decisioning processes
- Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and querying
- Ability to interpret data and communicate insights to both technical and non-technical teams
- Familiarity with affordability assessment or open banking data is beneficial
THE BENEFITS
- Competitive salary and equity options
- Private medical insurance
- Opportunity to work in a purpose-driven, high-growth FinTech
- Collaborative and data-focused working environment
THE PROCESS
- Initial screening interview
- Live technical assessment (SQL-based)
- Business case discussion
- Final interview focusing on business case and cultural fit
- Offer!
HOW TO APPLY
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Data Analyst
London
£350 - £400
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Location: London (2 days on-site preferred)
Contract Length: 3 months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Start Date: ASAP
Rate: £350-£400
Overview
This role sits within a media agency environment, focused on analysing performance data from job boards and paid media channels, and transforming it into actionable insights.
You’ll also play a key role in improving current reporting processes, which are largely manual, and helping establish scalable, repeatable dashboards and tracking frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain dashboards in Looker Studio
- Analyse data from platforms such as Indeed, CV Library, Appcast, and paid social channels
- Deliver trend analysis and performance insights across recruitment campaigns
- Develop conversion and application funnels
- Integrate GA4 and paid media platforms into reporting frameworks
- Implement and manage UTM tracking and pixel tracking strategies
- Support post-rollout optimisation after initial campaign launches
- Create repeatable dashboard templates for use across multiple clients
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and data accuracy
- Provide guidance and best-practice recommendations in a relatively greenfield environment
Skills & Experience Required
- Strong experience with Google Analytics (GA4) and Google Tag Manager
- Proven experience using Looker Studio for dashboard creation
- Understanding of UTM tracking strategies and pixel tracking
- Experience working with paid media data (paid social, Google Ads)
- Ability to design scalable, automated reporting solutions
- Confident taking ownership of projects end-to-end
- Experience within a media agency or recruitment marketing environment is highly desirable
Nice to Have
- Experience upskilling or mentoring teams on Looker Studio or reporting tools
- Exposure to multi-client environments with repeatable analytics frameworks
Soft Skills
- Able to translate technical concepts into clear insights for stakeholders
- Proactive, with the confidence to suggest ideas and improvements
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to guide decision-making
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Animation
Los Angeles
$200000 - $270000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLos Angeles, California
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Our client is an innovative AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI personas. Their proprietary framework brings AI to life as fully realized digital identities that look, think, and behave like living entities across enterprise, gaming, and entertainment ecosystems. Backed by $200M from top-tier investors, they are built on the belief that every website, app, game, and human will soon have an AI persona.
We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Avatar Technology team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between machine learning and real-time animation pipelines, taking generative models from prototype to high-quality production environments.
What You’ll Do
- Production ML Integration: Integrate machine learning models into real-time animation systems across mobile and web environments.
- Motion Generation: Develop systems that translate inputs like audio, text, and intent into responsive avatar motion, specifically adapting generative models (diffusion, transformers) for facial animation and gesture generation.
- Data & Tooling Pipelines: Build motion data processing pipelines (mocap, facial capture) and develop DCC tool integrations (Maya, Blender) to empower Technical Artists.
- Optimization & Collaboration: Partner with Behavior and LLM teams to link predictive motion to character logic , while optimizing performance across CPU, GPU, and memory constraints.
What You Should Have
- 7+ years of experience in machine learning, animation systems, or related technical roles within games, VFX, or interactive media.
- Strong programming skills in Python, along with C++ and/or C#.
- Production experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow , and a proven track record of shipping ML systems.
- Practical exposure to skeletal animation, rigging, or simulation pipelines.
- Experience integrating systems into real-time engines such as Unity, Unreal, or web-based runtimes.
- Deep understanding of performance constraints including latency, memory, and scalability.
Benefits & Structure
- Work Structure: Hybrid environment (minimum 4 days weekly in-office); remote-eligible
- Compensation: Competitive salary, equity packages, and comprehensive health/wellness benefits.
- Perks: Unlimited PTO and parental leave.
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Senior Director, eCommerce Engineering
Mountain View
$230000 - $280000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentMountain View, California
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Senior Director, eCommerce Engineering
Mountain View, CA | Hybrid
We are partnering with a global consumer technology company that serves hundreds of millions of users through subscription-based digital products and services.
As the organization continues to invest in platform modernization and AI-driven innovation, they are looking to add a Senior Director of eCommerce Engineering to help shape the future of their global commerce ecosystem.
The Opportunity
This is a highly visible engineering role focused on modernizing enterprise commerce platforms, influencing long-term architecture strategy, and accelerating AI adoption across engineering teams.
You will partner closely with engineering leaders, architects, and product stakeholders to improve platform reliability, performance, and developer productivity while helping define the next generation of customer-facing commerce experiences.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Guide architecture strategy across enterprise commerce platforms.
* Drive modernization efforts across legacy Java-based backend systems.
* Improve checkout, billing, subscription, and payments infrastructure.
* Partner with engineering leaders and architects across globally distributed teams.
* Influence cloud, platform, and database modernization initiatives.
* Introduce AI-enabled capabilities across engineering workflows and platform experiences.
* Improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
* Define long-term technical roadmaps and engineering standards.
What We’re Looking For
* Experience building and developing engineering organizations within consumer technology environments.
* Strong background in backend architecture and distributed systems.
* Deep expertise in Java-based engineering environments.
* Experience modernizing enterprise platforms and applications.
* Cloud platform experience, ideally within Azure environments.
* Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and technical levels.
* Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
Preferred Experience
* Payments, billing, checkout, or subscription platform experience.
* Consumer-facing commerce or transaction-based platforms.
* AI-driven platform modernization initiatives.
* Oracle database modernization or migration experience.
* AWS exposure.
* Familiarity with React.
Compensation
* Base Salary: $230,000 – $280,000
* Annual Bonus
* Equity: RSUs
* Total Compensation: Up to approximately $500,000
Location
This is a hybrid opportunity with a preference for candidates located in:
* Mountain View, California
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Data Modeller/Junior Data Architect
London
£60000 - £65000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Data Modeller/Junior Data Architect:
- Permanent role – Up to £65k + benefits
- London – 2x a week in the office
My client are looking to hire a Data Modeller to join their current team. You will be joining an established data team of 25. The team is made up of Data Governance, Data Engineering and BI, who are reporting into the Head of Data. For this specific role you will be reporting into the Head of Architecture within the team.
This role would suit someone who is a few years into their data career with strong data modelling experience and an ambition to become a Data Architect.
Requirements:
- Strong Data Modelling experience in tools such as Sparkx EA or similar tools.
- Proven experience in a Data Modeller role or similar such as: Junior Data Architect, Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer etc.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with the Microsoft stack, such as Azure, Fabric, Databricks.
What will make you stand out:
- A background in engineering or programming.
- Experience with SQL or Python.
- Experience within Healthcare.
- An interest in a long-term career in Data Architecture.
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Data Modeller
London
£65000 - £65000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Data Modeller
London (Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite) | Up to £65,000 + benefits
This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation undertaking a major data and digital transformation, with a clear path from data modelling into data architecture. You will step into a role designed for long-term growth, working closely with senior architects and influencing how data is structured and used across the business.
The Company
They are a large, highly regulated organisation responsible for maintaining professional standards across a significant workforce in the UK. With a strong focus on public impact, they are investing heavily in modernising their data platforms, governance, and architecture. Their data function plays a critical role in driving informed decision-making and improving organisational outcomes. You will join a collaborative, forward-thinking team committed to building scalable and robust data solutions.
The Role
- Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support key business initiatives
- Contribute to the design and evolution of data architecture standards and best practices
- Work across multiple projects, ensuring consistency in modelling approaches and data structures
- Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and governance teams to deliver high-quality data solutions
- Support the transition towards modern, cloud-based data platforms and architectural frameworks
- Engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into structured data models
- Learn and develop towards a Data Architect role through mentoring and hands-on experience
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience in data modelling across enterprise environments
- Experience with data modelling methodologies such as dimensional modelling, Kimball, or Data Vault
- Exposure to modern cloud data platforms, ideally within the Microsoft ecosystem
- Familiarity with tools such as DBT, Python, or PySpark is beneficial
- Experience working in data transformation or modernisation programmes
- Understanding of architecture principles or a clear interest in developing into a Data Architect
- Confidence engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What They Offer
- Salary up to £65,000 with flexibility for highly relevant experience
- Hybrid working model with a central London office location
- Clear progression pathway into Data Architecture
- Mentorship from experienced architecture leadership
- Opportunity to shape data standards within a large-scale organisation
- Collaborative team environment with strong cross-functional exposure
How to Apply
If you are looking to strengthen your data modelling expertise and move towards a Data Architect career, please apply with your CV for consideration.
