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From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
This role, like many other data-driven roles, helps companies process historical data, get insightful reports to the people who need them, and work with business leaders to understand what data they should analyse and what it means to their bottom line.
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Head of Data
London
£90000 - £110000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Head of Data
London
Fixed-Term Contract (minimum 6 months)
Up to £110,000 (pro rata’d)
This is a senior interim leadership role joining a growing data function in a Green Tech business pivotal point in its maturity. Strong foundations are in place across AWS, Snowflake, dbt and Power BI; the focus now is on turning that platform into tangible insight and business impact.
The Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of three (Engineers/Analysts)
- Own and manage the data and analytics roadmap, setting realistic expectations around delivery
- Shift the function from automated reporting to high-quality insight and decision support
- Embed clear intake, prioritisation and ways-of-working processes for data requests
- Partner with senior stakeholders to deliver KPI dashboards, executive reporting and ad-hoc analysis
- Improve data literacy across the business and manage reactive requests effectively
- Support machine learning initiatives, including in-housing and adoption of an existing demand prediction model
- Work alongside engineering leadership to guide the ongoing evolution of the data platform
- Champion data quality, governance and a single source of truth
Skills & Experience:
- Senior analytics or data leadership experience in a modern data environment
- Strong commercial acumen and confidence influencing senior stakeholders
- Proven experience leading and developing analytics teams
- Solid understanding of analytics, data storytelling and insight delivery
- Hands-on background with Power BI, SQL, and ideally Python
- Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake and dbt
- Experience owning data or analytics roadmaps and managing expectations
- Exposure to machine learning initiatives is a plus
- Able to step into an interim role quickly and operate autonomously
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Head of Data & Insights
London
£100000 - £110000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Head of Data & Insights
Maternity Cover, Fixed Term Contract (9 months)
London, Hybrid (3 days in office)
Salary up to £120,000
A high growth, purpose driven organisation in the green tech space is looking for an experienced Head of Data & Insights to join on a fixed term basis. This is a senior leadership role reporting into the CFO, taking ownership of the data function during a critical period of growth.
You will lead a growing team of 3 across engineering and analytics, owning the data roadmap, embedding best practice, and ensuring high quality insights are delivered to support commercial and operational decision making. The function is newly established, giving you the opportunity to shape processes, standards, and ways of working from the top down.
The role will involve:
- Leading and developing a team of data engineers and analysts
- Owning the data and insights roadmap and embedding request and delivery processes
- Partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable insights
- Overseeing KPI dashboards, executive reporting, and BAU analysis
- Supporting demand forecasting and machine learning initiatives
- Setting direction for the data platform across AWS, Snowflake, and Power BI
- Championing data quality, governance, and a single source of truth across the business
We are looking for:
- Strong commercial mindset with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Proven experience leading analytics or data teams
- Hands on capability with SQL, Python, and BI tools, Power BI preferred
- Experience with cloud based data platforms, AWS and Snowflake beneficial
- Excellent communication and data storytelling skills
- Comfortable operating in a fast paced, high growth environment
What is on offer:
- Hybrid working with 3 days in the London office
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional personal days
- Private medical and dental insurance, life assurance, and income protection
- A mission driven culture within a certified B Corp organisation
If you are an experienced data leader looking for a high impact contract role in a business driving the transition to sustainable transport, this is a rare opportunity.
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BI Developer
City of London
£400 - £520
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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BI DEVELOPER
£400 – £520 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
REMOTE
7 WEEKS CONTRACT
THE COMPANY:
Join a growing organisation supporting a new marketing and customer analytics initiative.
THE ROLE:
As a BI Developer, your responsibilities will include:
- Working with existing data sources to create a usable reporting layer
- Using Databricks to pull and prepare data to feed into Power BI
- Building end-to-end Power BI dashboards, covering multiple use cases including campaign performance and marketing impact
- Supporting wireframing and dashboard design, working closely with stakeholders to shape requirements
- Creating data models either within Databricks
- Delivering approximately 20-40% data engineering work, with the remainder focused on Power BI development
- Building and maintaining three core dashboards across the project
- Engaging directly with the client to gather requirements and provide updates
- Participating in daily stand-ups and managing development work independently between check-ins
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The successful BI Developer will have:
- Strong Power BI experience, including dashboard development and data modelling
- Experience working with Databricks to support reporting and analytics use cases
- Strong SQL or Python skills
- Experience working on greenfield or early-stage reporting projects
- The ability to translate business requirements into clear, effective dashboards
- Experience working directly with stakeholders in a client-facing environment
- A delivery-focused mindset with the ability to work autonomously
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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BI Developer
London
£400 - £520
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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BI Developer
Location: Remote (occasional London travel)
Contract Length: 7 weeks
IR35: Outside IR35
Day Rate: £400-£520 per day
Start Date: 2nd February
Overview
The client is experiencing high demand, and the role requires a blend of Power BI development and light analytics engineering capability. The data environment does not yet have a clean, established data layer. The consultant will work in Databricks to pull and shape data before surfacing insights in Power BI, building several new dashboards from scratch.
Key Responsibilities
- Build new Power BI dashboards from the ground up, working directly from Databricks data sources
- Deliver dashboards covering:
- Campaign performance
- Customer health metrics
- Marketing impact and effectiveness
- Perform simple ETL and data shaping tasks (circa 20-40% engineering, remainder Power BI)
- Gather requirements directly from client stakeholders via regular calls
- Provide clear updates to the internal MSQ delivery team
- Support dashboard design and usability, ensuring outputs are clear and client-ready
- Operate autonomously, joining daily stand-ups and managing workload without close supervision
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong Power BI experience, including building dashboards from scratch
- Experience working with Databricks
- SQL or Python for data extraction and transformation
- Ability to perform light ETL and data modelling tasks
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- Previous experience delivering new dashboard builds, not just maintaining existing reports
- Experience working with marketing or customer analytics data
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Data Governance Analyst
Coventry
£300 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCoventry, West Midlands
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Data Governance Analyst
Location: Coventry – 2/3 days on site
Contract Length: 6 months Initially
IR35: Inside IR35
Day Rate: £300-450pd
Start Date: February
Overview
The Data Governance Analyst will support the delivery and embedding of data governance initiatives across the organisation, working closely with the Data Governance Delivery Lead, data owners, data stewards, IT, and business stakeholders. The focus of the role is on implementing governance policies, supporting compliance assessments, maintaining governance tooling, and improving overall data maturity. This is a fast-paced role involving multiple parallel workstreams rather than a single programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the rollout and embedding of data governance policies and frameworks
- Assist in planning and coordinating data governance workstreams
- Carry out compliance assessments for new systems, features, and digital initiatives
- Support development and ongoing enhancement of the data governance toolkit, including data ownership, metadata capture, definitions, and lineage
- Maintain and enhance the central Data Hub, ensuring governance documentation and standards remain up to date
- Support configuration, administration, and user onboarding of the data governance tooling
- Assist with drafting and implementing data classification policies
- Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to gather information, follow up on actions, and communicate governance changes
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience in data governance, data management, data quality, or business analysis
- Understanding of core data governance concepts (data ownership, metadata, data standards, data quality)
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Awareness of GDPR and data risk management principles
- Experience with data governance or cataloguing tools such as Precisely, Collibra, or Informatica
- Exposure to data classification, compliance assessments, or data risk frameworks
- Experience working in regulated or data-led environments
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Senior Analytics Engineer
London
£85000 - £90000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Analytics Engineer
Location: London based | Hybrid 2 days per week in the office
Type: Permanent, full time
The Opportunity
A leading international media and audio business is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to join a central Data & Decision Sciences function operating across multiple European markets.
This team sits at the heart of the organisation and partners closely with senior stakeholders to drive data led decision making across audience, commercial, and operational domains. Data is treated as a strategic asset, not a support function.
The Role
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for transforming raw data into well modelled, business ready data marts and semantic layers. You will take ownership of dimensional modelling, dbt transformations, and core metrics that power BI tools used across the business.
This role blends hands on technical delivery with technical leadership and line management, managing 2 to 3 Analytics Engineers while working closely with senior data leaders and stakeholders on multi market initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and own dimensional data models using Kimball methodology
* Build and maintain dbt pipelines from raw to gold layer marts
* Define and enforce modelling, testing, and documentation standards
* Own elements of the semantic layer and core business metrics
* Translate technical schemas into clear, business friendly concepts
* Lead migration of workloads into Snowflake and dbt
* Refactor legacy logic and optimise models for performance
* Champion documentation first practices and data quality standards
* Improve observability using dbt tests, data quality tooling, and internal monitoring
* Line manage and mentor 2 to 3 Analytics Engineers
* Partner with senior stakeholders to shape data strategy and delivery
* Engage with international markets to understand requirements and align delivery
What We’re Looking For
* Strong SQL with hands on Snowflake experience
* Proven dbt experience at scale
* Strong dimensional modelling using Kimball principles
* Python for data engineering tasks
* Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
* Git based workflows
* Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI
* Experience working in cloud environments including AWS or GCP
* Experience leading engineers and large scale data projects
* Clear communicator with strong ownership mindset
Nice to have
* Data quality tooling such as Great Expectations
* Semantic layer tooling
* Terraform
* Media or advertising background
Why Apply
* High impact role in a data driven organisation
* Exposure to international, multi market datasets
* Combination of technical leadership and hands on engineering
* Strong investment in learning and development
* Flexible hybrid working model
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Data Analyst – SQL
£350 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractEast Midlands
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DATA ANALYST
£350 – £450 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
HYBRID (2 DAYS PER WEEK – EAST MIDLANDS)
3 MONTH CONTRACT
THE COMPANY:
Join a large organisation supporting across their finance function as a Data Analyst.
THE ROLE:
As a Data Analyst, you will be working across several brand-new initiatives. Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the cash accounting function through data modelling and analysis
- Delivering analytics to support new tender launches
- Monitoring performance of new website launches
- Supporting investigations within the stock finance area
- Creating data models from scratch, including writing brand-new SQL data models
- Working primarily in SQL (approx. 75%) with a smaller focus on visualisation (approx. 25%)
- Building Power BI dashboards using a combination of newly created models and pre-existing tables
- Engaging directly with stakeholders across all levels of the business
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The successful Data Analyst will have:
- Strong SQL skills with experience building data models from the ground up
- Solid Power BI experience, including dashboard development
- Experience working in fast-paced environments with multiple parallel workstreams
- Exposure to financial operations, cash accounting, or stock finance
- A more technical, hands-on mindset rather than a purely stakeholder-facing profile
- Python experience (nice to have)
- Databricks experience (nice to have)
- Experience working in a retail environment (nice to have)
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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Data Analyst
Leicester
£350 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLeicester, Leicestershire
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Location: Leicester – 2 days per week onsite
(First 2 weeks require 5 days onsite)
Contract Length: 3 months
IR35: TBC (likely Outside IR35)
Day Rate: £350-£450 per day
Start Date: mid/late January
Overview
The team supports finance and operational reporting across areas such as cash, accounting, product launches, and stock and warehousing investigations. This is a fast-paced environment with multiple small workstreams rather than a single large programme.
Key Responsibilities
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Deliver Power BI reporting and data models to support finance and operational insight
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Build and maintain data models, both from scratch and from existing structured tables
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Create clear, functional dashboards and visualisations (clarity over complexity)
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Analyse performance of new product or payment launches (e.g. Apple Pay adoption)
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Support investigations across stock, warehousing and finance operations
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Work closely with stakeholders at multiple levels to gather requirements and iterate quickly
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Operate across a mix of short, ad-hoc projects in a high-change environment
Required Skills & Experience
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Strong SQL and Power BI experience
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Solid understanding of data modelling
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Experience working in a fast-paced, delivery-focused BI environment
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Comfortable engaging stakeholders to clarify requirements
Nice to have:
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Python / Databricks
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Retail or consumer-facing experience
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Data Engineering Manager
San Francisco
$200000 - $250000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Data Engineering Manager
Location: Remote, US based
Salary: $200-250k Base Salary
We are partnering with a fast growing company at the intersection of fintech, gaming, and digital commerce to hire a Data Engineering Manager. This leader will own the company wide data strategy, data ecosystem, and data organization.
If you have built modern data platforms in regulated financial environments and want to shape the future of real time digital economies, this role offers company level impact.
The Opportunity
You will turn data into a strategic, revenue enabling asset by architecting and running a modern data stack that powers real time analytics, forecasting, ML insights, and regulatory reporting. This includes building semantic layers, unified source of truth datasets, experimentation frameworks, and high-quality telemetry.
You will oversee the full data lifecycle so product, commercial, risk, and compliance teams have timely, trusted data that drives GTM strategy, financial planning, customer analytics, churn modeling, fraud detection, and product optimization.
What You Will Lead
- Enterprise data strategy, roadmaps, data product vision, and multi year investment planning
- Data governance including cataloging, lineage, metadata, SLAs, access controls, and auditability, plus standardized KPIs and metric definitions
- Modern data architecture including real time pipelines, event streaming, warehousing, lakes, modeling, orchestration, and CI/CD for analytics and ML
- Analytics leadership across BI, self service, dashboarding, reporting, product analytics, forecasting, experimentation, and cohort analysis
- Data science enablement for predictive models, risk scoring, automated decisioning, and personalization, with infrastructure to deploy models
- Team leadership across data engineering, BI, analytics, and applied science including hiring, mentorship, operational rigor, and quality standards
- Cross functional partnership with Product, Engineering, FP&A, Compliance, and GTM to support product innovation, financial modeling, AML and KYC workflows, and market expansion
- Data activation through dashboards, workflow automation, internal data apps, and decision support tools
What You Bring
- 10+years in data with at least 3 in senior leadership
- Experience in high growth fintech, payments, or regulated financial services
- Proven ability to build and scale enterprise data ecosystems
- Expertise in data governance, quality, and regulatory compliance including AML and KYC
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Technical depth in cloud warehouses, modeling, ETL and ELT, orchestration, and BI
- Strong SQL and familiarity with Python
- Experience with AWS data services and infrastructure as code
- Bonus: crypto, gaming, or internal tooling experience
Why This Role
Join a company shaping next generation digital commerce and build the data function for a global, highly regulated business. You will have full ownership, executive visibility, and the mandate to design a data organization that enables innovation at scale.
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BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
DATA ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From the Data Engineers who design and build data platforms, and those that manage data quality and data governance, through to Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation professionals, our Data and Technology team recruits for roles that sit behind effective analytics.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From Data Science start-ups, to global Travel and Financial corporations, we help the best Software Engineering talent find rewarding careers.
As the scale and complexity of data increases, Software Engineers have become essential players in creating information solutions. The need to build end to end systems that turn data into products has seen a sharp increase in demand for these roles.
Developers working in Python, Scala, and Java, as well as Dev Ops professionals, are now amongst some of the most sought-after talent in the industry.
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Candidate – Data Analyst
I’ve had a great experience with Harnham. The recruiter provided great advice and ensured that I understood everything, and even followed up with me after I started my new role to see how I was settling in. I would recommend Harnham as a great recruitment company for anyone looking for a role in data and analytics.
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Client – Data Direction – Broadcast Media
I have worked with Harnham for over 2 years now as our main Analytics Recruiter partner and I am very pleased with the overall service and the people we have hired via Harnham. Harnham’s team is very good at understanding our recruitment needs and always come back with relevant and well scanned CVs, which saves me precious time.
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Data Direction – Broadcast Media
Candidate – Senior Data Engineer
I've been a Senior Data Engineer for about 4-5 years and Harnham is one of the best recruitment agencies I worked with. There was a time when my offer fell through and the recruiter I was working with at Harnham jumped in to the rescue and scheduled interviews for me within a couple of days. Really good agency and some great people.
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Senior Data Engineer
Client – Director of Customer Data Science – Apparel
The team at Harnham have been outstanding in helping our company build a market-leading data science team. Harnham’s communication is great, and the recruiter’s take a consultative approach that’s really focused on provided value for both their clients and their candidates. They provide strong candidates that help us fill our roles with high achievers who are also a great fit for our culture.
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Director of Customer Data Science – Apparel
Candidate – Chief Data Officer
It was a real treat to work with Harnham. My recruiter consistently went above and beyond to ensure that I navigated through the recruitment process as smooth as possible. I had been in contact with other professional at Harnham in the past and I can attest that the level of professionalism is always top-notch.
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Chief Data Officer
Client – Director of People Operations
We’ve been collaborating with Harnham to recruit some key positions for our company, and they have been incredible partners. They team has been great and efficient. They understood our needs perfectly and provided us very talented candidates. We'll keep collaborating with them in the future. Thank you for your excellent job!
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Candidate – Digital Media and Analytics
I've recently got a short-term contract role through Harnham, and things couldn't have gone better! My recruiter was incredibly helpful throughout the entire process. They also provided incredible admin support so that I could focus on the actual job in hand, rather than having to spend too much time dealing with these matters.
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Candidate – Market Research Analyst
Thanks to Harnham, I am now in a role that suits me. My recruiter was able to quickly identify the skills I had to offer and match me up with his client. It was a win-win for everyone. I was given great advice throughout the process, and I also appreciated the follow-ups that I received.
