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Senior Data Analyst
London
£60000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Analyst (Marketing Analytics)
South London (Hybrid) – 3 days aweek
From £60-75k
The Opportunity
We’re working with a leading global marketing and customer experience agency looking for a Senior Analyst to join their analytics team.
This role combines hands-on data analysis with client-facing insight delivery-helping businesses make smarter decisions through data and driving measurable marketing performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver end-to-end analytics projects, from data exploration to insight delivery
- Analyse customer, web, and campaign data to improve performance
- Build dashboards and visualisations for self-service reporting
- Work with tools such as SQL, Python, and data visualisation platforms
- Support measurement frameworks and test-and-learn strategies
- Present insights and recommendations to clients and senior stakeholders
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across data, tech, and marketing
- Mentor and support junior analysts
What We’re Looking For
- 3-5 years’ experience in marketing analytics or data analytics roles
- Strong skills in SQL, Python, and Excel
- Experience with visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
- Knowledge of web and social analytics tools (GA, Adobe, Brandwatch, etc.)
- Strong understanding of performance measurement and customer journeys
- Experience working in agency or consulting environments (preferred)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Curious, proactive mindset with strong problem-solving abilities
Ways of Working
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Collaborative, cross-functional team environment
- Exposure to global brands and varied client challenges
- Strong focus on learning, development, and innovation
Benefits
- Competitive salary + bonus potential
- Flexible working and strong work-life balance culture
- Ongoing learning and development programmes
- Mental health support, coaching, and wellbeing initiatives
- Additional personal and volunteer leave days
- Inclusive, diverse, and supportive working culture
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support
How to Apply
If you’re a data-driven analyst looking to work on high-impact marketing challenges and deliver meaningful insights, we’d love to hear from you.
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Platform Systems Architect
Dallas
$200000 - $225000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentDallas, Texas
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Platform Systems Architect
Dallas, TX (Onsite, 5 days per week)
Base Salary: $200,000 – 225,000
Overview
A technology manufacturer is expanding its infrastructure footprint significantly, investing largely into domestic capacity and digital platform growth. This role is central to building and evolving the internal enterprise platform that supports that expansion.
This position focuses on developing an internal, cloud platform that enables application and engineering teams to build, deploy, and run services across a hybrid environment that spans on premises data centers and public cloud.
The Role
Seeking a senior Platform Systems Architect to define and design the foundational infrastructure platform that internal teams depend on. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for end to end platform architecture across compute, storage, networking, and core platform services.
You will work across both on premises and public cloud environments to deliver a unified, scalable, and reliable platform. This is a hands-on architecture role, suited for someone who has designed and built large distributed systems, not just documented or managed them.
What You Will Do
- Design end to end platform architectures across compute, storage, networking, and platform services
- Define and maintain enterprise standards, reference architectures, and design patterns
- Architect hybrid environments spanning data centers and public cloud platforms
- Design and support Kubernetes based platforms (OpenShift, Rancher, or similar)
- Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible
- Establish CI/CD, automation, and DevOps platform standards
- Design observability and reliability solutions using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK
- Partner with engineering teams to modernize legacy systems into distributed architectures
- Provide technical leadership as a senior individual contributor
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in systems architecture, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering
- Experience designing and operating large scale distributed systems
- Strong expertise across compute, storage, and networking
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience (OpenShift, Rancher, or equivalent)
- Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible
- Proven hybrid cloud experience (on prem + public cloud)
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Working knowledge of Python or Go
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building a private cloud or internal platform from the ground up
- Advanced networking experience (EVPN, VXLAN, SDN)
- Experience with data or streaming platforms (Kafka, Spark)
- Knowledge of API gateways, IAM, and platform integration patterns
- Exposure to GPU, AI, or high performance computing workloads
- Hands-on experience with major public cloud platforms

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Senior Account Director
London
£65000 - £70000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Account Director (CRM & Client Leadership)
UK (Hybrid/Remote – Bristol area)
Up to £65-70k
The Opportunity
We’re working with a growing customer engagement agency looking for a Senior Account Director to lead key client relationships and drive account growth.
This is a senior leadership role where you’ll combine strategic thinking, commercial ownership, and team leadership to deliver impactful CRM and marketing solutions while ensuring client satisfaction and profitability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow key client accounts, ensuring strong relationships and commercial success
- Own delivery of projects, ensuring work is on time, on budget, and high quality
- Drive revenue growth through identifying upsell and development opportunities
- Develop strategic campaign briefs and oversee delivery across CRM channels
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (strategy, design, data, dev, campaign)
- Manage budgets, forecasting, and financial reporting
- Lead post-campaign reviews to optimise performance and processes
- Mentor and develop account team members
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years’ experience at Account Director level in an agency environment
- Strong experience managing client relationships and leading teams
- Understanding of CRM channels (email, web, app, push) and loyalty principles
- Commercial mindset with experience managing budgets and revenue growth
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business needs into campaigns
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience working with data to influence marketing decisions
Ways of Working
- Hybrid working model
- Highly collaborative, agency environment
- Leadership role with both strategic and hands-on responsibilities
- Strong focus on innovation, client impact, and team development
Benefits
- Competitive salary + performance-related incentives
- Opportunity to lead high-profile client accounts
- Career progression and leadership development
- Collaborative and creative working culture
- Exposure to integrated CRM, data, and digital projects
- Flexible working arrangements
How to Apply
If you’re a commercially driven Account Director with a passion for client leadership and CRM strategy, we’d love to hear from you.
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Machine Learning Scientist
San Francisco
$200000 - $250000
+ Life Science Analytics
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Machine Learning Scientist
Remote (USA only)
About the Role
A frontier AI-driven bio-tech company is hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to help develop next-generation foundation models at the intersection of AI and biology.
This is an individual contributor role for a researcher who enjoys taking ideas from concept to experimentation, working on challenging problems, and collaborating with a highly technical team.
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art machine learning and foundation models.
- Rapidly prototype and test new research ideas.
- Develop benchmark tasks and evaluation frameworks.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, scientists, and engineers.
- Contribute to publications and technical presentations.
Ideal Background
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Physics, Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong publication record at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, or equivalent venues.
- Experience building models in PyTorch and conducting original machine learning research.
- Background in foundation models, LLMs, computer vision, multimodal learning, generative AI, robotics, or scientific machine learning.
Biology experience is a plus but not required. Exceptional researchers from computer vision, language modeling, robotics, autonomous driving, and other highly quantitative fields are encouraged to apply.
Why Join?
- Work on cutting-edge machine learning research with real-world impact.
- Collaborate with world-class researchers and scientists.
- Help shape the future of AI-driven scientific discovery.

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Principal Software Engineer
San Francisco
$280000 - $350000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
BAY AREA, CA (3 DAYS IN OFFICE)
$280,000 – $350,000+ (BASE + EQUITY)
An exciting opportunity for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join a lean, profitable platform connecting creators through video.
THE COMPANY
A profitable, early-stage tech company with a small Bay Area-based team. The product already reaches a significant audience and focuses on high-impact, user-generated video content.
THE ROLE
Hands-on engineering and AI work across the platform:
- Build agentic GenAI workflows using internal datasets
- Develop marketing and growth systems: email delivery, personalization, engagement tracking
- Create commercial AI models to understand user behavior and engagement
- Collaborate across product and engineering teams
- End-to-end coding, system design, and customer validation
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Backend: Python, Django or Flask or FastAPI
- Frontend: React
- Cloud/Infrastructure: AWS
- Databases: PostgreSQL
- AI/ML: OpenAI; knowledge of agent systems helpful
- Experience with large-scale data and knowledge systems is a plus
- Comfortable working in a lean, high-ownership environment
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Calum Reid via the apply link on this page.

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Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $250000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
A high-growth AI company is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with enterprise customers on rapidly building and deploying AI-driven solutions.
This is a highly product-oriented engineering role focused on solving real customer problems quickly. The team is looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy working closely with customers, and can rapidly prototype and ship solutions using modern AI tooling.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Partner with customers to understand workflows and business challenges.
- Rapidly build MVPs and proof-of-concepts.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams.
- Help shape and productionize successful customer solutions.
What They’re Looking For
- Strong product sense and customer empathy.
- Ability to operate independently and move quickly.
- Engineers who are resourceful, curious, and highly execution-oriented.
- Experience in startup or high-growth environments.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Irvine
$200000 - $240000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentIrvine, California
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Applied ML)
About the Company
Our client is a high-scale consumer technology company leveraging machine learning, advanced analytics, and large-scale data systems to optimize user experiences and drive meaningful business impact. Their products reach millions of users globally, providing an opportunity to work on ML systems at significant scale.
The Role
They are hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own and improve production machine learning models that directly impact key business metrics. This is a highly applied ML role focused on model performance, experimentation, feature engineering, and continuous optimization-not ML infrastructure.
You’ll work with large-scale datasets to improve prediction, ranking, recommendation, and optimization systems, partnering closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
What They’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, Applied ML, or Data Science
- Strong hands-on Python and SQL skills
- Experience building, deploying, and improving production ML models
- Experience working with large-scale datasets
- Strong understanding of feature engineering, model optimization, and experimentation
- Experience with recommendation systems, ranking, personalization, Ad Tech, search, marketplace optimization, or similar large-scale ML problems
- Ability to operate independently, take ownership, and drive technical decisions
Why Join?
- Work on high-impact ML systems serving millions of users
- Own and improve models that directly influence product performance and revenue
- Join a mature engineering environment with strong data infrastructure already in place
- Operate as a senior individual contributor with significant ownership and impact
Location
Remote within the following states: California, Washington, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma.

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Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend Focus)
Phoenix
$125000 - $140000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentPhoenix, Arizona
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SENIOR FULL STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER – BACKEND FOCUS
TEMPE, AZ (HYBRID)
$125,000 – $140,000 BASE + BONUS + BENEFITS
The Opportunity
We’re partnering with a large, well-established national organization to hire a Senior Software Engineer with strong AWS Serverless, Python, and React experience to help scale and modernize their cloud platform.
This role sits at the center of a fast-moving engineering team responsible for powering customer-facing applications (leasing, payments, maintenance) and internal systems. You’ll design and build scalable, serverless backend services in AWS while contributing to modern React-based front-end applications.
This is a hands-on senior IC role with strong ownership across cloud architecture and application development.
The Engineering Environment
The team operates in a high-velocity Agile environment focused on:
- AWS-first, serverless architecture (Lambda, S3, API Gateway)
- Cloud-native microservices
- Continuous integration and delivery
- Modern DevOps practices
- Ongoing platform modernization and legacy refactoring
What You’ll Be Working On
- Design and build serverless backend services using AWS Lambda, S3, and related AWS services
- Develop RESTful APIs and event-driven workflows in Python
- Build and enhance modern front-end applications using React / ReactJS
- Architect scalable, secure cloud-native solutions
- Optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in AWS environments
- Participate in CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
- Collaborate with product, QA, and cross-functional teams to ship high-quality releases
What We’re Looking For
- 6-8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS Serverless (Lambda, S3, API Gateway)
- Proficiency in Python for backend development
- Experience building modern front-end applications with React / ReactJS
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems
- Experience working in Agile environments with CI/CD pipelines
Why This Role
- Opportunity to build and scale AWS serverless systems at national scale
- High ownership and architectural input as a senior engineer
- Strong cloud-native, modern engineering environment
- Stable, growth-oriented organization investing heavily in technology
- Competitive base + bonus structure
- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k match, PTO, holidays)
This is a high-impact engineering role focused on building scalable AWS serverless systems and modern React applications that power real-world customer and operational experiences at scale.
