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.

Latest Episodes

Data and ai podcast: All Episodes

Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

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.

 

Business Analyst

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Business Analyst – Media Company

London (Hybrid – 2 days/week in-office)

Permanent | £50,000 – £60,000

Are you a Business Analyst who loves working at the heart of change? This well-known media company is building out its transformation function – and they’re looking for a sharp, collaborative Business Analyst to help shape the future of how the business works.

The Role

You’ll join a small but mighty team of three – working alongside a Change Manager and Delivery Manager, all reporting into the Head of Transformation. Your role? Uncover opportunities, dig into processes, and translate business needs into actionable plans that lead to meaningful change.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Analyse current processes, systems, and structures across departments
  • Gather and document requirements through workshops, interviews, and data analysis
  • Support project scoping, impact assessments, and business cases
  • Translate complex requirements into clear documentation for delivery teams
  • Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive change

✅ What You’ll Need

  • Proven experience as a Business Analyst (ideally in a media, digital, or fast-paced environment)
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience working across business transformation or change projects
  • Ability to create process maps, gap analyses, and functional specs
  • A collaborative mindset and proactive attitude
  • Some technical, backend experience is ideal (if you’ve worked as a commercial or BI analyst- perfect!)

Why Apply?

  • Join a company with a national media presence and a clear transformation agenda
  • Work directly with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
  • Be part of shaping smarter, faster ways of working
  • Hybrid working with a flexible, people-first culture

Please register your interest by sending your resume/CV to Chloe Pott via the Apply link on this page

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Birmingham

£75000 - £80000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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SENIOR DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER

£75,000-£80,000 + 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 Data Platform Engineer to help with enabling real time data processing.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Senior Data Platform Engineer will need to:

  • Scale real-time data processing for analytics and automation
  • Enhance experimentation frameworks
  • Optimise the Martech data ecosystem

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholder
  • Java experience for microservicing
  • Streaming experience e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, Flink
  • Cloud experience – AWS, Azure, GCP

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £75,000-80,000 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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QA Engineer

Birmingham

£35000 - £40000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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QA ENGINEER

£35,000-£40,000 + BENEFITS

BIRMINGHAM (Hybrid)

A chance to help replicate existing functionality while improving SQL, PHP, and DevOps capabilities!

THE COMPANY:

An opportunity to join a growing company in the financial industry, which as it develops, is placing a bigger importance on using technology to enhance governance and efficiency.

THE ROLE:

A QA Engineer will need to:

  • Set up testing processes and frameworks
  • Enable proper testing practices
  • Write and maintain test plans, scripts, and automated tests
  • Conduct regression testing

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful QA Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • System testing or QA Engineering background
  • Manual and automated testing experience
  • Ability to improve PHP/SQL/DevOps capabilities

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £40,000 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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Data Modeller

Birmingham

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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DATA MODELLER

£65,000-£70,000 + BENEFITS

BIRMINGHAM (Hybrid)

A chance to work with Solution Architects and Data Architects to support the data strategy of the business.

THE COMPANY:

An opportunity to join a growing company in the financial industry, which as it develops, is placing a bigger importance on its data team.

THE ROLE:

A Data Modeller will need to:

  • Work with wider team to contribute to the creation, and promotion of data governance standards
  • Supporting Head of Architecture to improve processes and solutions
  • Support on the technology roadmap

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Data Modeller will have the following skills and experience:

  • Experience in data management and analysis
  • Data Modelling experience
  • Data warehousing design experience
  • Stakeholder management

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £70,000 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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Data Engineer (SSIS)

Birmingham

£45000 - £50000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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DATA ENGINEER

£45,000-£50,000 + BENEFITS

BIRMINGHAM (Hybrid)

A chance to help maintain and optimise existing databases, as well as develop new solutions both on smaller scale individual requests as well as on exciting large scale projects!

THE COMPANY:

An opportunity to join a growing company in the financial industry, which as it develops, is placing a bigger importance on maintaining a robust and streamlined database!

THE ROLE:

A Data Engineer will need to:

  • Maintaining SQL server environmemt.
  • Lead development of innovative data architecture
  • Design scalable data solutions

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Experience in TSQL
  • Extensive SSIS/SSRS experience
  • Data modelling skills
  • Stakeholder management

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £50,000 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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Junior Data Engineer

Liverpool

£35000 - £38000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Liverpool, Merseyside

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JUNIOR DATA ENGINEER

£35,000-£37,000 + BENEFITS

LIVERPOOL (Hybrid)

An opportunity to be part of a team as they modernise and invest in their data.

THE COMPANY:

This company is in the housing industry, and as part of their data strategy are currently expanding. They are looking to modernise their tech stack as they move from SSIS based ETLs across to the Azure stack.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Junior Data Engineer will need to:

  • Strong experience in SQL
  • Experience with Power BI
  • ETL pipelining experience
  • Ability to interact with stakeholders

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £,37,000 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 Data Engineer (SSIS) (Finance Experience)

Birmingham

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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SENIOR DATA ENGINEER

£65,000-£70,000 + BENEFITS

STAFFORDSHIRE (Hybrid)

A chance to help maintain and optimise existing databases, as well as develop new solutions both on smaller scale individual requests as well as on exciting large scale projects!

THE COMPANY:

An opportunity to join a growing company in the financial industry, which as it develops, is placing a bigger importance on maintaining a robust and streamlined database!

THE ROLE:

A Senior Data Engineer will need to:

  • Maintaining SQL server environmemt.
  • Lead development of innovative data architecture
  • Design scalable data solutions

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

  • Experience in TSQL
  • Extensive SSIS/SSRS experience
  • Data modelling skills
  • Stakeholder management

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £70,000 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 Data Engineer (Airflow)

Manchester

£60000 - £90000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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SENIOR DATA ENGINEER

£75,000-£90,000 + BENEFITS

PRIMARILY REMOTE UK

An established company in the Media/Advertising space is seeking a proactive Data Engineer to join their innovative team as they grow and invest.

THE COMPANY:

This company are currently investing in their data team, and are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help gather requirements and build solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to help build out the data platforms and create frameworks to enable them ensure data drives value across the business.

THE ROLE:

A Senior Data Engineer will need to:

  • Building & maintaining ELT/ETL pipelines
  • Work closely with stakeholders across the business
  • Own data engineering roadmap
  • Manage data warehouse (gathering requirements and building solutions)
  • ensure alignment with data management and quality
  • support migration of data processes to CUBE architecture

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholders
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Good understanding of Airflow/DBT
  • Experience with GCP/AWS
  • Background in CI/CD
  • Containerisation experience – Kubernetes/Docker
  • Experience in CUBE architecture

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £90,000 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