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 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)

Data Recruitment & AI Talent Solutions

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Senior Data Engineer (Azure)

Nottingham

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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SENIOR DATA ENGINEER

£65,000-£70,000 + BENEFITS

PRIMARILY REMOTE

A leading company in the retail industry is seeking a proactive Data Engineer to join their innovative team.

THE COMPANY:

This is a well-established brand driven by an ambitious vision. They are currently investing in their data team, and are looking for a Data Engineer to help gather requirements and build solutions.

THE ROLE:

A Data Engineer will need to:

  • Work closely with stakeholders across the business
  • Manage data warehouse end-to-end (gathering requirements and building solutions)
  • Helping to build data models

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholders
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Experience with Azure/ADF
  • Background in CI/CD

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 (GCP)

Leeds

£60000 - £65000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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DATA ENGINEER

£65,000 + BENEFITS

Remote (UK based)

Looking for a role where you can take ownership of a modern cloud data warehouse, optimise pipelines, and make data more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective?

THE COMPANY:

I’m working with a global retail & e-commerce brand that’s expanding rapidly across the UK. With a growing digital and physical presence, their central data team plays a key role in powering insights across e-commerce, retail, finance, and marketing.

THE ROLE:

This is a hands-on data engineering role where you’ll focus on building, optimising, and scaling pipelines into BigQuery (GCP) from a wide range of sources. You’ll work closely with BI developers and analysts to ensure clean, reliable data is available for reporting and decision-making.

  • Manage and optimise pipelines from ERP, website, APIs, app stores, social media, and more.
  • Work with BigQuery, Google Buckets, Python scripts, and Talend (transitioning to Dataform/Cloud workflows).
  • Support migrations between GCP projects and ensure the warehouse is scalable and cost-efficient.
  • Partner with BI teams to prepare and transform data for reporting in Power BI and Looker.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

  • Strong hands-on experience with BigQuery & GCP (essential).
  • Solid SQL skills, with a focus on optimisation and performance tuning.
  • Experience working with APIs and data pipelines.
  • Python for automation and bespoke data jobs.
  • Knowledge of BI tools (Power BI / Looker) – good to have for connecting and enabling reporting.

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary up to £65,000 depending on experience, plus a competitive benefits package.

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 Analyst

London

£400 - £400

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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DATA ANALYST

£400 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35

MOSTLY REMOTE – OCCASIONAL ONSITE TRAVEL (LONDON)

6-9 MONTH CONTRACT

THE COMPANY:

A data-focused consultancy is growing its team to help clients manage, cleanse, and optimise their data as part of wider digital transformation initiatives.

THE ROLE:

As a Data Analyst, you’ll combine strong technical skills with the ability to work directly with stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for:

  • Gathering and translating business requirements into clear deliverables.
  • Profiling and cleansing complex data sets to ensure accuracy and consistency.
  • Mapping and understanding data flows to identify issues and optimise pipelines.
  • Developing reports in Power BI.
  • Creating structured documentation to guide offshore development teams.
  • Collaborating with analysts and developers during delivery to ensure data quality and actionable outputs.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The successful Data Analyst will have:

  • Strong SQL and Power BI skills.
  • Experience in data cleansing, data profiling, and ensuring data quality.
  • Understanding of data modelling and data flows in digital customer projects.
  • Excellent stakeholder management.
  • Previous consultancy experience (Big 4 is desirable).

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Mojola Coker via the apply link on this page.

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Director of Data Science – Audit & Regulatory

New York

$300000 - $350000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
New York

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Director of Data Science – Audit & Regulatory

Location: 2-3 days/week hybrid in New York, New York

Compensation: $250,000 – $275,000 base salary + bonus + equity

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We are partnered with a high-growth financial services company at the intersection of AI, tax, and compliance, which is fundamentally transforming how regulated industries leverage language models and machine learning. This organization is building sophisticated NLP/LLM systems to streamline complex workflows for legal and financial professionals.

With executive-level support and increasing product demand, they’re seeking a Director of Data Science to lead strategy, research, and engineering execution across NLP and LLM initiatives for tax, compliance and auditing projects. This is a rare opportunity to drive technical vision, shape an elite ML team, and build impactful AI systems from the ground up in a regulated space.

THE ROLE

As Director of Data Science, you’ll be responsible for setting the long-term machine learning roadmap, leading technical teams, and ensuring the successful development and deployment of scalable NLP solutions. You will report directly to the Head of AI and work closely with executive leadership, product, and engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define and align AI solutions with tax, audit, and compliance strategies to meet business goals and regulatory requirements.

  • Build and manage a high-performing team focused on AI-driven tax, audit, and compliance innovations.

  • Oversee end-to-end model development, ensuring AI solutions support regulatory adherence and operational efficiency.

  • Collaborate with product, legal, engineering, and finance teams to design scalable, compliant AI solutions.

  • Research and implement emerging LLM and NLP technologies to optimize tax reporting, auditing, and compliance processes.

  • Represent the company in industry discussions, advocating for ethical AI and best practices in financial services.

  • Ensure AI models are continuously monitored, optimized, and updated to meet changing regulations and business needs.

  • Implement MLOps frameworks to ensure secure, transparent, and auditable AI deployments in financial operations.

  • Champion data privacy, security, and compliance within AI models to adhere to regulations like GDPR and AML/KYC.

  • Drive the development of AI tools that automate tax, audit, and compliance workflows, enhancing accuracy and efficiency.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in machine learning and data science, with at least 4+ years in a leadership or managerial role.
  • Comfortable leading teams of 15+ data scientists and machine learning engineers
  • Demonstrated success building and leading teams that develop and deploy NLP/LLM models at scale.
  • Deep expertise in Python, ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), and modern NLP tools (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy).
  • Experience designing and implementing ML systems in production, especially with large language models (e.g., GPT, BERT, T5).
  • Extensive tax, compliance and/or audit domain experience.
  • Comfortable with regulatory compliance processes, risk management, data privacy.
  • Familiarity with the SEC, FCA and FINRA preferred
  • Proven ability to align technical initiatives with business goals, working cross-functionally with product and exec teams.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and scalable ML pipelines.
  • PhD or Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Publication or open-source contributions in NLP/ML domains (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP) a plus.

THE BENEFITS

  • Senior-Level Management Compensation: $250,000 – $275,000 base + bonus + tangible equity.
  • Hybrid Work Culture: 2-3 days/week in office in New York.
  • Elite Talent Environment: Collaborate with top-tier researchers, engineers, and domain experts.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Full health, dental, vision, 401(k), and wellness programs.
  • Strategic Impact: Lead a core function at the center of the company’s long-term success.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit your resume to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page. We’re excited to connect with experienced ML leaders ready to guide cutting-edge AI development in a deeply impactful space.

KEYWORDS:

Director | Machine Learning | NLP | LLMs | AI Leadership | ML Strategy | Deep Learning | Natural Language Processing | AI Platforms | NLU | NLG | Information Retrieval | Large Language Models | Legal Tech | Financial Services | Model Deployment | Engineering Management | AI Infrastructure | Hugging Face | Generative AI | Enterprise AI | Tax | Accounting | Audit | Auditing | Compliance | Regulatory | Risk Management | Data Privacy | Governance

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Lead Analytics Consultant

Manchester

£80000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Lead Analytics Consultant

Location: UK (hybrid – UK-remote with up to 20% client-site travel)
Salary: £80,000-£100,000 (DOE)

The Company

We’re partnering with a high-growth data consultancy that helps organisations realise measurable value from data and AI. They design modern data platforms, define pragmatic data & AI strategies, and deliver analytics solutions that are adopted by business users-not just “delivered”. With an expanding UK footprint, they’re building a senior consulting layer to lead flagship engagements and shape the practice.

The Role

This is a senior, client-facing role at the intersection of data strategy, AI opportunity, and delivery execution. You’ll lead end-to-end strategy engagements, translate business needs into actionable roadmaps, guide multi-disciplinary delivery teams, and mentor consultants-ensuring solutions land, scale, and drive impact.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end data & AI strategy engagements: scope, discovery, assessment, roadmap, operating model, adoption.

Run senior stakeholder workshops: align priorities, define value metrics, and set success criteria across business and tech.

Translate strategy into delivery: shape target architecture and backlog (platforms, pipelines, governance, analytics/ML).

Course-correct initiatives: identify low-value work, re-prioritise to higher-impact opportunities, and prove value quickly.

Oversee delivery quality: steer squads across data engineering, analytics, and data science; remove blockers; ensure best practice.

Drive adoption & change: define measurement, enablement, and operating processes so solutions are used and maintained.

Mentor & elevate the team: coach consultants on consulting craft, stakeholder management, and technical breadth.

Grow accounts through outcomes: build trusted relationships and spot expansion opportunities via delivered value.

Skills & Experience

Consulting leadership: proven experience leading data/analytics strategy programmes (with exposure to AI/ML preferred).

Business & technical bilingual: credible with execs and architects alike; able to frame trade-offs and influence decisions.

Broad technical grasp: modern data platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), ingestion/ELT, modelling, governance (policies, lineage, MDM), BI, and ML use cases.

Hands-on when needed: comfortable diving into discovery, prototyping value cases, and structuring delivery backlogs.

Value & adoption mindset: measurable outcomes, TCO awareness, and practical operating models (people, process, tech).

Strong facilitation & comms: runs C-level workshops, produces clear roadmaps, and tells compelling data-led stories.

Coaching orientation: develops juniors; sets standards for consulting quality and delivery excellence.

Benefits

£80k-£100k base depending on experience

Hybrid UK working with <=20% travel (primarily London)

Clear progression to Practice Lead as the team scales

High-impact projects across industries; autonomy to shape the practice

Collaborative, low-ego culture focused on value and adoption

How to Apply

Please send your CV to Mohammed Buhariwala at Harnham via the Apply link on this page, including notice period and salary expectations.

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Lead Consutlant

Birmingham

£80000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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Lead Consultant – Data & AI Strategy

Location: UK (Remote with travel to client sites)

Salary: £100,000 + Bonus

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing consultancy that helps organisations unlock the full potential of their data and analytics capabilities. Working across industries, they design and deliver data strategies, modern data platforms, advanced analytics, and AI solutions that drive measurable business impact. Their approach blends deep technical expertise with commercial insight, ensuring solutions are not only technically sound but also well-adopted and strategically aligned.

With an expanding UK footprint, they are building out their consulting team to deliver high-value engagements and shape the direction of their growing practice.

The Role

This is a senior consulting position that combines strategic leadership, client engagement, and hands-on delivery. As Lead Analytics Consultant, you will work at the intersection of data strategy, AI opportunity, and delivery execution – helping clients define their goals, creating the roadmap to achieve them, and ensuring solutions deliver lasting value.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end data and AI strategy engagements from scoping to adoption.
  • Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders to set priorities, metrics, and success criteria.
  • Translate business needs into actionable technical and analytical solutions.
  • Identify opportunities to maximise value from data initiatives.
  • Oversee delivery teams to maintain high standards and ensure client objectives are met.
  • Mentor and develop junior consultants, building both technical and consulting capability.
  • Contribute to account growth through exceptional delivery and trusted relationships.

About You

  • Proven track record in leading data strategy and analytics projects, ideally with AI/ML exposure.
  • Strong commercial and consulting skills, able to engage with both technical and business leaders.
  • Broad technical knowledge across data platforms, pipelines, governance, and analytics.
  • Ability to combine hands-on delivery with strategic advisory.
  • Collaborative, energetic, and motivated, with a drive for continuous improvement.
  • Flexible to travel to client sites (primarily London, with occasional regional travel).

What’s on Offer

  • Opportunity to shape the direction of a growing UK consultancy.
  • Variety of high-impact projects across multiple industries.
  • Supportive, collaborative culture focused on innovation and quality.
  • Competitive package with bonus and benefits.

If you’re a strategic thinker with a passion for data and AI – and the drive to deliver measurable impact – we’d love to hear from you.

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Lead Analytics Consultant

London

£90000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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LEAD ANALYTICS CONSULTANT – LONDON

UP TO £100,000 + BONUS

THE COMPANY

We are working with a high-growth, boutique consultancy on a pivotal Lead-level hire. This role combines strategic leadership, client engagement and hands on delivery.

THE ROLE

The successful Lead Analytics Consultant responsibilities will include:

  • Lead end-to-end data and AI strategy projects, from scoping through delivery and adoption.
  • Run workshops with senior business stakeholders to define priorities, metrics, and success criteria.
  • Translate business requirements into actionable technical and analytical solutions.
  • Identify areas where current initiatives are not delivering value and redirect focus to higher-impact opportunities.
  • Oversee delivery teams, ensuring high standards and alignment with client goals.
  • Mentor and develop junior consultants, fostering technical depth and consulting skills.
  • Contribute to account growth through exceptional delivery and trusted client relationships.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Lead Analytics Consultant will have the following skills and experience:

  • Proven experience leading data strategy and analytics engagements, ideally with exposure to AI/ML applications.
  • Strong commercial and consulting acumen – able to engage credibly with both technical teams and business leadership.
  • Broad technical knowledge across data platforms, pipelines, governance, and analytics, with the ability to “see the whole picture.”
  • Hands-on capability combined with strategic leadership; able to switch between delivery and advisory roles as required.
  • Energetic, motivated, and collaborative, with a drive for innovation and continuous improvement.

THE BENEFITS

The successful Lead Analytics Consultant will receive a salary of up to £100,000, plus an array of additional benefits.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Harry Mincer via the apply link below.

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Analytics Manager

Trowbridge

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Trowbridge, Wiltshire

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Analytics Manager

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days/week in Trowbridge)
Salary: Up to £55,000 + benefits

Are you passionate about data and solving real-world business problems? Our client, a well-established multinational food business, is seeking a hands-on Analytics Manager to join their high-performing data team.

About the Role

This role sits within the Forensic Analytics function – focused on deep-dive analysis and strategic problem-solving. You’ll work across international B2B and D2C markets, delivering actionable insights on key business questions like:

  • “Why are sales dropping in this category?”

  • “How can we improve logistics efficiency?”

  • “Is 350 products the right number for our portfolio?”

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders, shape analytics roadmaps, and lead projects from data exploration to insight delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define analytical approaches to tackle business challenges

  • Identify and explore relevant data sources

  • Deliver clear, insight-driven storytelling using visualisation tools

  • Analyse marketing campaign performance (MMM, attribution, ROI)

  • Support commercial strategy through segmentation and customer insights

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong SQL and data visualisation skills (e.g. Tableau, Power BI)

  • 3+ years in marketing or commercial analytics

  • Experience with campaign analysis and business performance insight

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management

  • Bonus: Python experience or a consulting background

Why Join?

  • Join a data-rich, insight-driven organisation with a strong ethical mission

  • Work within a team of 16 data professionals, reporting to a senior leader with 1 direct report

  • Exposure to both operational and strategic analytics challenges across international markets

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with option to buy more)

  • Discretionary bonus scheme

  • Matched pension contributions (up to 4%)

  • Life assurance

  • Free on-site parking & subsidised canteen

  • Staff perks & discount scheme (tech, retail, lifestyle)

  • Free Christmas gift (turkey or voucher)

Interview Process

  • Stage 1: Video interview with VP of Data

  • Stage 2: In-person interview with senior leadership

  • Stage 3: Stakeholder interviews (cross-functional assessment)

  • Includes verbal and numerical reasoning assessments

If you’re ready to turn data into business value – apply today.

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