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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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Head of Data Science

London

£150000 - £160000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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Head of Data Science

London, Hybrid working (2 to 3 days per week in office). Offering a competitive salary between £150,000 to £160,000 base.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape and scale a high impact data science function at the heart of a profitable, fast growing fintech. The role offers significant autonomy and the chance to influence how data science drives commercial decision making across an established UK business.

The Company

They are a London based fintech providing credit and financing solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Operating in a highly data driven environment, they have built a profitable, automated lending platform supported by sophisticated statistical and machine learning models. The business is well capitalised, commercially mature, and continuing to invest heavily in data science as a core differentiator.

The Role

As Head of Data Science, you will lead a multi team data science function that underpins decisions across credit, product, operations and commercial strategy. Your focus will be on maximising the value of data science across the organisation while ensuring the function scales effectively.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Setting direction for the data science function and ensuring work is aligned to core business and profitability metrics such as customer lifetime value.
  • Leading, hiring and developing a large team of data scientists, including managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Improving efficiency, standards and ways of working across multiple data science sub teams.
  • Partnering closely with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations and commercial teams to ensure insights are embedded in decision making.
  • Overseeing the use of probabilistic and machine learning models in production environments and contributing to longer term technical and modelling strategy.
  • Helping the business prioritise where data science delivers the greatest commercial impact.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience leading and scaling sizeable data science teams, including managing managers and individual contributors.
  • A track record of driving measurable commercial impact through data science in a complex business environment.
  • Experience operating in cross functional settings and influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of probabilistic modelling, statistics and machine learning, ideally grounded in an academic background such as mathematics, statistics, physics or a related field.
  • The ability to balance rigour with pragmatism, ensuring models and analysis deliver real world value.
  • Experience building or operating data science functions where work is deployed into production.
  • UK based experience and the right to work in the UK, with sponsorship available if required.

What They Offer

  • Competitive base salary of £150,000 to £160,000.
  • Hybrid working model with 2 to 3 days per week in the London office.
  • Significant autonomy and resource to shape the function and its future growth.
  • The opportunity to lead a large, well established data science team in a profitable and growing business.
  • Clear scope to influence strategy, structure and long term direction of data science across the organisation.

How to Apply

If this sounds like the role for you, apply below or email me at

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Senior Analytics Engineer

Leeds

£70000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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SENIOR ANALYTICS ENGINEER

£70,000-£75,000 + BENEFITS

PIMARILY REMOTE

An opportunity to join a popular telecoms company expanding into new markets!

THE COMPANY:

Over the past few years, this telecoms company has expanded. With a rich data set, they have lots of data to work with and are keen to bring in a Senior Analytics Engineer to help with data modelling and transformation.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Senior Analytics Engineer will need to:

  • Design and build data models
  • Support implementation and maintenance of ELT pipelines
  • Ingest data into Snowflake
  • Transform data using DBT
  • Empower teams to make data driven teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Senior Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholder
  • Data modelling techniques – e.g. DataVault, Kimball etc.
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Data Cloud Tech experience – e.g. Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks
  • Data transformation experience using DBT

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £75,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

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 Analytics Engineer

Cardiff

£70000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Cardiff

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SENIOR ANALYTICS ENGINEER

£70,000-£75,000 + BENEFITS

PIMARILY REMOTE

An opportunity to join a popular telecoms company expanding into new markets!

THE COMPANY:

Over the past few years, this telecoms company has expanded. With a rich data set, they have lots of data to work with and are keen to bring in a Senior Analytics Engineer to help with data modelling and transformation.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Senior Analytics Engineer will need to:

  • Design and build data models
  • Support implementation and maintenance of ELT pipelines
  • Ingest data into Snowflake
  • Transform data using DBT
  • Empower teams to make data driven teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Senior Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholder
  • Data modelling techniques – e.g. DataVault, Kimball etc.
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Data Cloud Tech experience – e.g. Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks
  • Data transformation experience using DBT

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £75,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

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

Senior Analytics Engineer

Birmingham

£70000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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SENIOR ANALYTICS ENGINEER

£70,000-£75,000 + BENEFITS

PIMARILY REMOTE

An opportunity to join a popular telecoms company expanding into new markets!

THE COMPANY:

Over the past few years, this telecoms company has expanded. With a rich data set, they have lots of data to work with and are keen to bring in a Senior Analytics Engineer to help with data modelling and transformation.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Senior Analytics Engineer will need to:

  • Design and build data models
  • Support implementation and maintenance of ELT pipelines
  • Ingest data into Snowflake
  • Transform data using DBT
  • Empower teams to make data driven teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Senior Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholder
  • Data modelling techniques – e.g. DataVault, Kimball etc.
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Data Cloud Tech experience – e.g. Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks
  • Data transformation experience using DBT

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £75,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

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

Analytics Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne

£60000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

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Analytics Engineer

£60,000 – £70,000

Fully Remote (1 day a month in Uxbridge)

This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands-on analytics engineering role where your work will have immediate impact. You will be central to rebuilding and strengthening a core data capability, shaping how analytics supports product and customer decisions across the business.

THE COMPANY

They are a well-established UK mobile network operator with a strong digital and data-led culture. Analytics plays a key role in how products are developed and improved, with teams encouraged to focus on practical delivery rather than process.

THE ROLE

As an Analytics Engineer you will join a small but critical core analytics team that supports multiple product areas across the business.

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

  • Design, build and maintain analytics ready data models used across the organization.
  • Develop transformations using dbt on a Snowflake data platform.
  • Apply best practice dimensional modelling to create reliable, well-structured datasets.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience writing complex SQL for analytics and data modelling.
  • Proven experience designing dimensional data models, ideally using Kimball principles.
  • Hands on experience using dbt for data transformation.
  • Experience working with cloud data warehouses, ideally Snowflake.
  • Comfortable using Python or similar languages for data logic and problem solving.
  • A builder mindset with a clear focus on technical delivery.

BENEFITS

The successful Analytics Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £60,000 – £70,000 – depending on experience
  • Remote-first working model with 1 day a month in office, in Uxbridge.

HOW TO APPLY

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

To Apply for this Job Click Here

Analytics Engineer

Manchester

£60000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Analytics Engineer

£60,000 – £70,000

Fully Remote (1 day a month in Uxbridge)

This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands-on analytics engineering role where your work will have immediate impact. You will be central to rebuilding and strengthening a core data capability, shaping how analytics supports product and customer decisions across the business.

THE COMPANY

They are a well-established UK mobile network operator with a strong digital and data-led culture. Analytics plays a key role in how products are developed and improved, with teams encouraged to focus on practical delivery rather than process.

THE ROLE

As an Analytics Engineer you will join a small but critical core analytics team that supports multiple product areas across the business.

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

  • Design, build and maintain analytics ready data models used across the organization.
  • Develop transformations using dbt on a Snowflake data platform.
  • Apply best practice dimensional modelling to create reliable, well-structured datasets.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience writing complex SQL for analytics and data modelling.
  • Proven experience designing dimensional data models, ideally using Kimball principles.
  • Hands on experience using dbt for data transformation.
  • Experience working with cloud data warehouses, ideally Snowflake.
  • Comfortable using Python or similar languages for data logic and problem solving.
  • A builder mindset with a clear focus on technical delivery.

BENEFITS

The successful Analytics Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £60,000 – £70,000 – depending on experience
  • Remote-first working model with 1 day a month in office, in Uxbridge.

HOW TO APPLY

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

To Apply for this Job Click Here

Analytics Engineer

Birmingham

£60000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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Analytics Engineer

£60,000 – £70,000

Fully Remote (1 day a month in Uxbridge)

This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands-on analytics engineering role where your work will have immediate impact. You will be central to rebuilding and strengthening a core data capability, shaping how analytics supports product and customer decisions across the business.

THE COMPANY

They are a well-established UK mobile network operator with a strong digital and data-led culture. Analytics plays a key role in how products are developed and improved, with teams encouraged to focus on practical delivery rather than process.

THE ROLE

As an Analytics Engineer you will join a small but critical core analytics team that supports multiple product areas across the business.

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

  • Design, build and maintain analytics ready data models used across the organization.
  • Develop transformations using dbt on a Snowflake data platform.
  • Apply best practice dimensional modelling to create reliable, well-structured datasets.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience writing complex SQL for analytics and data modelling.
  • Proven experience designing dimensional data models, ideally using Kimball principles.
  • Hands on experience using dbt for data transformation.
  • Experience working with cloud data warehouses, ideally Snowflake.
  • Comfortable using Python or similar languages for data logic and problem solving.
  • A builder mindset with a clear focus on technical delivery.

BENEFITS

The successful Analytics Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £60,000 – £70,000 – depending on experience
  • Remote-first working model with 1 day a month in office, in Uxbridge.

HOW TO APPLY

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

To Apply for this Job Click Here

Analytics Engineer

Edinburgh

£60000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Edinburgh

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Role: Analytics Engineer

REMOTE

Salary: £60,000 – £75,000 (dependent on experience)

Insight into the Company:

This organisation is a large telecoms organisation that is looking to change the industry through their flexible approach! As an Analytics Engineer on their team, you will work to build the customer data platform.

The ideal candidate will be a team-player, working in a team of 10, working with and supporting different data workstreams. You will have strong communication skills to work within the team and also with stakeholders. The role will involve improving existing models to ensure they are efficient and scaled.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • You will ingest and transform data in snowflake using DBT
  • You will support the building of the data warehouse in Snowflake
  • You will work to sustain and implement existing ELT pipelines

Skills and Experience:

  • Essential to have 3+ years experience in:
  • SQL
  • Python
  • DBT
  • Cloud techs such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks
  • Dimensional Modelling such as Kimball
  • Desirable to have experience with:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Kafka; real-time streaming
  • Snowflake as a data warehouse

Interview Process:

There are 4 stages to the process:

  1. A 30 minute discussion about experience
  2. An hour take home exercise
  3. A technical interview with the Data Director and Analytics Engineer

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