DATA ENGINEERING
FOCUS
Specialist Focus Areas
At Harnham, we specialize in the following key areas within Data Engineering:
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- Analytics Engineering: Bridging the gap between data engineering and data science to enable sophisticated analytics.
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- Cloud Engineering: Developing and managing scalable cloud-based data solutions.
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- Data & DevOps: Integrating data management with DevOps practices to streamline workflows and enhance productivity.
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- Data Architecture: Designing and implementing the overall data framework and architecture for your organization.
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- Data Engineering & Big Data: Handling large-scale data processing and building data pipelines.
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- Data Platform Engineering: Creating and managing data platforms that support analytics and data science operations.
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- Data Product Management: Overseeing the development and management of data products.
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- DevOps Engineering: Combining software development and IT operations to improve deployment and efficiency.
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- Platform Engineering: Building and maintaining the platforms that support data operations.
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- Software Engineering: Developing software solutions that enhance data engineering capabilities.
JOBS
LATEST Data engineering
OPPORTUNITIES
With over 17 years of experience, Harnham has established itself as the leading global authority in Data and AI Recruitment
Senior Data Engineer
City of London
£60000 - £75000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentCity of London, London
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Senior Data Engineer
Remote UK or Republic of Ireland | £55,000 to £75,000
This Senior Data Engineer role stands out for its focus on greenfield data projects, genuine ownership, and the opportunity to work end to end on modern cloud data platforms. You will join a growing data function where engineers are trusted to make decisions, lead delivery, and have real impact without heavy layers of management.
The Company
They are a fast growing organisation investing heavily in their data capability to support long term scale. The business operates a fully remote model across the UK and Republic of Ireland, giving engineers flexibility while remaining closely connected as a team. Their data function is led by an experienced Head of Data and is built around modern engineering principles, autonomy, and continuous improvement. Ongoing hiring plans reflect a strong commitment to data as a core capability.
The Role
- Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data engineering projects from concept through to production
- Build and maintain robust data pipelines, transformations, and orchestration workflows
- Design cloud based data solutions starting from source systems
- Deploy and manage environments, with a focus on reliability and scalability
- Take ownership of projects and act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders and clients
- Contribute to ongoing optimisation and improvement of the data platform
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience using Python and SQL in data engineering environments
- Proven ability to lead projects independently and take responsibility for delivery
- Experience building data pipelines, transformations, and workflows in modern data stacks
- Confidence communicating directly with stakeholders and clients
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast moving, remote environment
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform is beneficial but not essential
What They Offer
- Exposure to greenfield projects and modern cloud data platforms
- Clear progression opportunities as the data team continues to scale
- A culture that values ownership, trust, and proactive problem solving
How to Apply
If you are a Senior Data Engineer looking for autonomy, impact, and the chance to shape modern data platforms, apply now to learn more

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Lead Data Engineer
Manchester
£75000 - £90000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Lead Data Engineer
UK Remote | £75,000 to £90,000
This is a rare opportunity to step into a Lead Data Engineer role within a growing, boutique consulting environment where greenfield delivery and real ownership are central to the work. You will combine hands on technical contribution with people leadership, shaping modern data platforms and processes for mid market organisations undergoing genuine digital transformation.
The Company
They are a specialist consulting firm focused on digital transformation across data, analytics and technology. Operating as a hands on delivery partner, they embed consultants directly into client squads to modernise data platforms and ways of working from the ground up. Their work spans end to end delivery, selling professional services rather than software products, with a strong emphasis on quality, autonomy and work life balance.
The Role
- Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data platforms and analytics solutions across the full data lifecycle
- Balance hands on technical work with leadership responsibilities, spending time both building and guiding
- Manage and support a team of data engineers, providing direction, feedback and development support
- Own projects end to end, from initial requirements through to production delivery
- Work closely with stakeholders and clients, confidently challenging requirements and shaping best practice
- Design data models and business processes that support scalable analytics and reporting
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer with solid foundations in SQL and dimensional modelling
- Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery
- Good Python capability, including orchestration tools such as Airflow
- Proven experience building and managing data ingestion pipelines
- Cloud experience within AWS or GCP environments
- Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Confidence leading people and projects, with clear communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable operating in greenfield environments with a high degree of autonomy
What They Offer
- A modern, evolving tech stack with increasing use of AI driven features
- Clear scope to influence technical direction and ways of working
- Strong emphasis on work life balance and sustainable delivery
- The opportunity to grow alongside the business in a senior leadership capacity
How to Apply
If you are a Lead Data Engineer looking for a role that blends technical impact with people leadership in a genuinely greenfield setting, apply now to learn more.

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AI Infrastructure Engineer
New York
$180000 - $210000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentNew York
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AI Infrastructure Engineer
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Pay: $180k – $210k Base + Bonus
Overview
This role sits within a highly technical investment and technology‑driven organisation operating at the intersection of advanced data, engineering and artificial intelligence. The business is known for its strong engineering culture, long‑term investment in infrastructure, and a highly collaborative, research‑led environment.
You will be part of a team responsible for designing and building the core infrastructure that enables AI and agent‑based systems to operate securely, reliably and at scale. This is a hands‑on engineering role with real ownership, focused on production systems rather than experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate production‑grade Kubernetes clusters supporting AI and agent‑based workloads
- Architect and scale core AI infrastructure platforms used across the organisation
- Build and maintain containerised platforms and supporting DevOps tooling
- Implement security, governance and access controls across AI infrastructure
- Support reliability, availability and performance of critical AI systems (SRE‑style ownership)
- Integrate infrastructure with networking, gateways and firewall‑controlled environments
- Partner closely with AI, platform and engineering teams to enable adoption and best practices
- Contribute to long‑term infrastructure strategy and standards
Must‑Have Qualifications
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience operating production Kubernetes environments
- Strong background in infrastructure engineering, SRE or platform engineering
- Solid experience designing secure systems (API security, authentication, access controls)
- Experience with containerised systems and modern cloud‑native architectures
- Professional software engineering experience building scalable, reliable systems
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience

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Head of Engineering
Edinburgh
£120000 - £140000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEdinburgh
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Head of Engineering
Remote UK | £120,000 to £140,000 plus discretionary bonus
This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within a fast growing TechBio scale up where engineering plays a critical role in shaping product, platform, and customer impact. You will take ownership of the engineering function, bringing structure, consistency, and leadership to a highly capable technical team while working closely with executive leadership on long term technical direction.
The Company
They are a venture backed technology business operating at the intersection of data, AI, and life sciences. Their platform enables global pharmaceutical organisations to make sense of vast amounts of public and proprietary scientific data, uncovering insights that would otherwise remain hidden. With strong funding, a growing customer base, and a clear mission, they are now scaling their technology and teams to meet increasing demand.
The Role
- Take ownership of the engineering function, leading senior engineers across backend, platform, full stack, and data disciplines.
- Act as the primary engineering leader, allowing the wider technology leadership to focus on data science and machine learning innovation.
- Set clear standards for engineering best practice, architecture, delivery, and technical decision making.
- Coordinate and oversee multiple workstreams, ensuring projects are well planned, aligned, and delivered effectively.
- Stay close to technical design and architecture, providing guidance and challenge without being hands on day to day.
- Partner with product, data science, and client facing teams to ensure the platform is robust, scalable, and delivering real customer value.
- Help shape and evolve a strong, collaborative engineering culture within a remote first environment.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience leading engineering teams within product led or platform based technology businesses.
- Background in backend or full stack engineering with a solid architectural perspective.
- Experience managing and mentoring senior engineers, with the credibility to lead highly capable technical specialists.
- Proven ability to bring structure, standards, and consistency to growing engineering teams.
- Comfortable operating in a startup or scale up environment with evolving priorities and ambiguity.
- Confident communicator who can work effectively across technical and non technical stakeholders.
What They Offer
- Salary between £120,000 and £140,000 plus a discretionary bonus.
- Fully remote working within the UK.
- Opportunity to shape the engineering direction of a high impact AI and data platform.
- A key leadership role within a growing, well funded business with long term progression opportunities.
How to Apply
If you are looking for a senior engineering leadership role with real influence and impact, please apply to learn more.

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Senior Data Engineer
£55000 - £70000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEngland
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Senior Data Engineer
Location: Remote in UK and Ireland
Salary: £55,000 – £70,000
This is an opportunity to join a growing data engineering function where you can take real ownership of greenfield projects, influence technical direction, and work end to end from design through to deployment. You will operate in a fully remote environment with a high level of autonomy, contributing to modern cloud data platforms used by a range of clients.
The Company
They are a fast-growing, data-led organisation building a modern data platform capability for external clients. The data function is central to the business strategy and is continuing to scale with long-term hiring plans in place. Operating fully remotely across the UK and Republic of Ireland, they prioritise trust, ownership, and delivery over micromanagement. The environment suits engineers who enjoy responsibility and solving complex problems.
The Role
You will play a key role in delivering client-facing data engineering projects, often in greenfield environments. Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and building scalable data solutions from source systems through to analytics-ready layers
- Developing robust ingestion pipelines and transformation logic using Python and SQL
- Deploying and managing cloud data environments
- Orchestrating workflows and ensuring reliable, production-grade delivery
- Owning projects end to end, from initial design to ongoing optimisation
- Working directly with clients and stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress
Your Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Strong commercial experience with Python and SQL in data engineering environments
- Proven ability to lead projects independently and take ownership of delivery
- Experience building modern data pipelines and transformation layers
- Confidence working in client-facing or stakeholder-facing environments
- Experience working with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar platforms
- Solid understanding of dimensional data modelling
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset with comfort operating autonomously
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform is beneficial but not essential
What They Offer
- Greenfield project work with modern cloud technologies
- Clear progression opportunities as the data function continues to scale
- A culture that values autonomy, trust, and technical ownership
How to Apply
If you are a Senior Data Engineer looking for autonomy, impact, and modern data engineering challenges, apply now to learn more.

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Data Engineer
£45000 - £60000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEngland
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Mid-Level Data Engineer
Location: Remote in UK or Ireland
Salary: £45,000 to £60,000
This is an opportunity to join a growing data engineering team working on modern cloud data platforms and greenfield projects. You will have real ownership over your work, contribute across the full data lifecycle, and operate in a fully remote environment that values autonomy, problem-solving, and clear communication.
The Company
They are a scaling organisation investing heavily in their data function as a core part of the business. The team builds cloud-first data platforms to support analytics and decision-making across the organisation. Operating fully remotely across the UK and Republic of Ireland, they promote trust, accountability, and a low-management culture. Data engineers are encouraged to shape solutions from design through to deployment.
The Role
- Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines on modern cloud data platforms
- Write and optimise complex SQL to support analytics and reporting use cases
- Apply dimensional modelling principles, including Kimball-style methodologies
- Work closely with analytics engineers and the wider engineering team
- Contribute to greenfield data projects and evolving platform architecture
- Take ownership of tasks and deliver solutions in an autonomous environment
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience writing SQL, including CTEs, window functions, and complex queries
- Experience working with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar platforms
- Solid understanding of dimensional data modelling
- Exposure to dbt is beneficial
- Basic Python knowledge, ideally supporting orchestration tools such as Airflow
- Experience working in a cloud environment
What They Offer
- Salary between £45,000 and £60,000
- Fully remote working across the UK and Republic of Ireland
- Opportunity to work on modern, greenfield data projects
- Clear progression within a scaling data engineering function
- A culture that values ownership, initiative, and independent problem-solving
How to Apply
If you are a Data Engineer looking for autonomy, technical challenge, and long-term growth in a remote-first environment, please apply to learn more about this opportunity.

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Technical Specialist
Eindhoven
€50000 - €55000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEindhoven, North Brabant
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Technical Support Specialist
Netherlands, hybrid working. Salary €3,500 to €4600 per month
This role stands out for its blend of technical depth, customer impact, and long term development. You will join a collaborative support environment where complex challenges are welcomed, learning is encouraged, and your expertise directly helps organisations rely on stable, well integrated software solutions.
The Company
They are a growing software organisation delivering business critical applications to professional services and regulated environments. Their technology supports day to day operations by improving access to information, system reliability, and overall quality. The culture is open, informal, and focused on teamwork, with a strong emphasis on personal growth and knowledge sharing.
The Role
As a Technical Support Specialist, you will be a key part of a multi disciplinary support team providing advanced technical assistance and contributing to continuous product improvement. Your responsibilities will include:
- Handling complex technical support incidents through a ticketing system.
- Investigating issues related to integrations, APIs, authentication, and cloud environments.
- Supporting application and system management across internal and customer platforms.
- Contributing to customer projects such as system integrations and tailored service requests.
- Sharing customer insights with development and product teams to improve solutions.
- Working closely with colleagues while also taking ownership of issues independently.
Your Skills and Experience
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- Strong commercial experience in technical support or application support.
- Working knowledge of SQL, REST APIs, and cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
- Confidence troubleshooting integrations, data issues, and system behaviour.
- An interest in software development and the ability to quickly understand new applications.
- Clear communication skills and a customer focused mindset.
- Professional fluency in Dutch, with English capability beneficial.
What They Offer
In return, they offer:
- A competitive monthly salary between €3,500 and €5,000, with room for progression.
- Flexible working hours and the option to work partly from home.
- A home working allowance and support for your home office setup.
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional leave.
- Profit sharing and a strong pension scheme.
- Structured onboarding, mentoring, and access to ongoing training and development.
How to Apply
If you are looking for a technical support role where your skills make a real difference and your development is taken seriously, apply now to learn more.

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Head of Engineering
Edinburgh
£120000 - £130000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEdinburgh
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HEAD OF ENGINEERING
Remote (UK)
up to £130,000
HEAD OF ENGINEERING
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of the Engineering function and play a critical role in scaling a sophisticated AI‑driven platform used by leading pharmaceutical companies.
THE COMPANY:
This business is operating at the intersection of AI, data science and pharmaceutical R&D with a mission is to make discoveries faster, smarter and more efficient.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of the Engineering function, providing leadership across technical delivery, people management and engineering operations. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and scaling the Engineering team as the business grows
- Establishing strong engineering processes, standards and ways of working
- Providing architectural oversight and technical direction across the platform
- Ensuring high‑quality, on‑time delivery of complex, enterprise‑grade projects
- Developing, mentoring and supporting senior engineers and technical leaders
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Hands‑on engineering leadership within fast‑paced startup environments
- Backend, data engineering or full‑stack systems at scale
- Technical strategy, architecture and long‑term platform design
- Managing and empowering highly capable senior engineers
- Cross‑functional delivery, stakeholder management and prioritisation
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £130,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package. This is a fully remote role within a growing Series A business, offering significant scope for impact, ownership and progression.
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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Head of Engineering
Leeds
£120000 - £130000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLeeds, West Yorkshire
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HEAD OF ENGINEERING
Remote (UK)
up to £130,000
HEAD OF ENGINEERING
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of the Engineering function and play a critical role in scaling a sophisticated AI‑driven platform used by leading pharmaceutical companies.
THE COMPANY:
This business is operating at the intersection of AI, data science and pharmaceutical R&D with a mission is to make discoveries faster, smarter and more efficient.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of the Engineering function, providing leadership across technical delivery, people management and engineering operations. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and scaling the Engineering team as the business grows
- Establishing strong engineering processes, standards and ways of working
- Providing architectural oversight and technical direction across the platform
- Ensuring high‑quality, on‑time delivery of complex, enterprise‑grade projects
- Developing, mentoring and supporting senior engineers and technical leaders
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Hands‑on engineering leadership within fast‑paced startup environments
- Backend, data engineering or full‑stack systems at scale
- Technical strategy, architecture and long‑term platform design
- Managing and empowering highly capable senior engineers
- Cross‑functional delivery, stakeholder management and prioritisation
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £130,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package. This is a fully remote role within a growing Series A business, offering significant scope for impact, ownership and progression.
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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