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SENIOR CREDIT RISK ANALYST

SALARY BETWEEN £45,000-£65,000

HYBRID WORKING (4 DAYS A WEEK IN-OFFICE)

LONDON

Harnham are working with a leading data and analytics organisation that supports businesses with data-driven decision-making and risk management solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for a Credit Risk professional to join a client-facing analytics team delivering high-impact projects across multiple industries.

THE COMPANY

A leading analytics and data-driven organisation that helps businesses make better commercial and risk-based decisions through the use of advanced data solutions. Working with clients across a range of industries, the company delivers analytical insights, modelling and strategic support to improve business performance. With ongoing investment in modern technologies, cloud platforms and innovation, it offers an exciting environment for analytics professionals looking to develop their careers.

THE ROLE

This Senior Credit Risk Analyst sits within a highly visible, client-facing opportunity within a Credit Risk Analytics team. You will work on a wide range of analytical and modelling projects, helping clients solve complex business challenges and improve decision-making through data.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in:

• Delivering analytical projects focused on credit risk strategy, modelling and risk decisioning.
• Developing and implementing scorecards, models and data-driven solutions.
• Working with large and complex datasets to generate actionable insights.
• Presenting findings and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Using SQL and Python to manipulate, analyse and interpret data.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Senior Credit Risk Analyst must have the following skills and experience:

• 2-4 years of experience working within Credit Risk Analytics.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Understanding of credit bureau/credit reference agency data and its application within risk analytics.
• Experience delivering analytical projects, including model development, scorecard development or credit strategy work.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Commercial awareness and a problem-solving mindset.

BENEFITS

The successful Senior Credit Risk Analyst will receive a salary between £45,000-£65,000.

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PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER / DATA ARCHITECT

AUSTIN, TX (HYBRID – 4 DAYS ONSITE)

COMPETITIVE BASE + BONUS + FULL BENEFITS

The Opportunity We’re partnering with a leading consumer technology organization to hire a Principal Data Engineer who will serve as a strategic technical leader across enterprise data architecture, platform modernization, governance, and data product initiatives.

This is not a traditional data engineering role focused solely on pipelines and development. This individual will partner closely with senior leadership to shape the future of the organization’s data ecosystem, influence long-term technology investments, evaluate platform strategy, and guide enterprise architecture decisions that directly impact business outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders, mentor engineers, and drive large-scale data initiatives from strategy through execution.

The Data Environment The team is focused on building and evolving modern cloud-native data platforms supporting analytics, customer intelligence, operational decision-making, and future AI initiatives.

• Modern cloud-based data architecture and platform modernization
• Data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and semantic layers
• Real-time and event-driven data processing environments
• Enterprise data governance, quality, security, and compliance
• Data products, domain-oriented architecture, and scalable analytics platforms
• Strategic investments supporting long-term business objectives and AI readiness

What You’ll Be Working On

• Define and drive enterprise data architecture strategy across modern cloud data platforms
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to develop long-term data roadmaps and investment strategies
• Evaluate technologies, vendors, and platform capabilities while providing architecture recommendations and business cases
• Lead architectural decisions around data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse environments, semantic layers, and data products
• Establish and promote best practices for data governance, security, compliance, quality, and cost optimization
• Architect scalable real-time and batch data ecosystems supporting analytics and operational workloads
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance across engineering teams
• Review architecture, troubleshoot complex technical challenges, and influence technical direction across multiple teams
• Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, performance, reliability, and business value

What We’re Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data platforms
• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures and modern cloud data platforms
• Expertise with data warehousing, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, and data modeling best practices
• Experience building or supporting real-time, event-driven, or streaming data platforms
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, security, and compliance frameworks
• Experience developing data strategies, roadmaps, architecture standards, and platform modernization initiatives
• Ability to communicate architectural concepts and recommendations to both technical and executive audiences
• Proven success influencing stakeholders, evaluating technology solutions, and guiding strategic technical decisions
• Strong SQL, data modeling, schema design, and distributed data systems experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred

Why This Role

• Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide data architecture strategy for a highly visible consumer technology organization
• Direct partnership with senior leadership on technology investments, platform decisions, and long-term roadmap planning
• Influence a critical business function that directly drives company initiatives and outcomes
• Work on modern cloud data platforms, real-time architectures, governance programs, and AI-ready data ecosystems
• Serve as a trusted technical authority and mentor across engineering and architecture teams
• High-impact role with significant ownership, visibility, and strategic influence
• Competitive compensation package including bonus and comprehensive benefits

This is a rare opportunity for a senior data architecture leader who enjoys balancing strategy, business influence, platform vision, and technical depth while helping define the future of a large-scale modern data ecosystem.

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Credit Risk Analyst
West Midlands
£35,000 – £45,000

Looking for a role where you can use data to influence real commercial decisions and build a long-term career in credit risk? This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing analytics team within a well-established consumer business, where you’ll gain exposure to lending strategy, portfolio analysis, and risk decisioning while benefiting from strong mentorship and structured development.

The Company
This organisation is a leading consumer-facing business with a large and established customer base. They operate a significant lending portfolio and use data-driven decision making to optimise customer outcomes and business performance. Their Credit Risk team is highly regarded internally and is known for investing heavily in learning, development, and career progression. As the team continues to grow, they are looking for an analyst who is keen to develop their expertise and take on increasing responsibility.

The Role
As a Credit Risk Analyst, you will support the delivery of insight-led risk strategies across customer portfolios.
Key responsibilities include:

• Producing regular reporting and ad hoc analysis across new and existing customers
• Identifying trends, opportunities, and risks within customer and portfolio performance
• Delivering deep-dive analysis and translating findings into clear recommendations
• Supporting senior analysts with strategy development and performance monitoring
• Building dashboards, reports, and presentations for key stakeholders
• Using data to drive business decisions and influence change
• Developing expertise across credit risk, lending performance, and customer behaviour

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience in analytics and insight generation
• Ability to turn analysis into actionable recommendations and business outcomes
• Experience identifying trends and influencing decision making through data
• Strong SQL skills are essential
• Experience within financial services is highly desirable, although candidates from other analytical environments such as telecoms, energy, or consumer sectors will also be considered
• Degree educated
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

What They Offer

• Salary between £35,000 and £45,000
• Hybrid working with one day per week in the office
• Strong learning and development opportunities
• Clear progression pathway into senior analytics and credit strategy roles
• Exposure to a broad range of projects and business stakeholders
• Collaborative team environment with hands-on support from experienced leaders

How to Apply
If you’re an analytically minded professional looking to develop your career in Credit Risk Analytics, apply now to learn more about this opportunity.

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Lead Insights Business Partner – Consumer Insight

Watford (3 days per week) | Up to £85,000 + Bonus + Benefits

This is a rare opportunity to lead the evolution of a high-profile insight function within a major consumer-focused organisation. Combining strategic leadership, customer insight, marketing effectiveness and team development, you’ll play a key role in shaping how insight influences business decisions at the highest level.

The Company

They are a well-established consumer business currently investing heavily in data, analytics, customer understanding and digital transformation. Insight is becoming an increasingly strategic capability, with strong backing from senior leadership to modernise ways of working and increase commercial impact. This role sits at the centre of that journey, offering exceptional visibility and influence across the organisation.

The Role

You will:

• Act as the senior insight partner to marketing, brand and commercial leadership teams
• Lead insight strategy across customer, brand, communications and retail functions
• Manage and develop a team of insight professionals, supporting capability growth and performance
• Drive the transformation of the insight function, improving methodologies, tools and ways of working
• Develop frameworks to measure brand performance, campaign effectiveness and customer outcomes
• Translate complex customer, market and performance data into clear business recommendations
• Partner with analytics teams to maximise the value of customer and marketing data
• Manage external research and insight agencies, ensuring the right approach for business needs
• Influence senior stakeholders and support strategic decision-making across the organisation

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience in Consumer Insight, Customer Insight or Market Research leadership roles
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and executive audiences
• Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams
• Deep understanding of consumer behaviour, customer insight and marketing effectiveness
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking capability
• Experience delivering change and transforming insight functions or operating models
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable Experience

• Experience within large consumer-facing organisations
• Knowledge of brand tracking, campaign effectiveness and customer measurement frameworks
• Exposure to attribution, econometrics and customer analytics
• Experience working across retail, digital or multi-channel environments
• Agency management experience within a complex stakeholder environment

What They Offer

• Salary up to £85,000
• Annual bonus and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in Watford
• High-profile leadership position with significant organisational visibility
• Opportunity to shape the future of an evolving insight function
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and strategic business decisions
• Strong career progression and long-term development opportunities

How to Apply

If you’re an experienced insight leader looking to drive transformation, influence strategy and build a market-leading insight capability, apply today for a confidential discussion.

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Principal Insight & Analytics Analyst

Watford (3 days per week) | Up to £95,000 + Benefits

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an experienced analytics professional looking to shape strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive the direction of an advanced analytics function. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, helping organisations make better decisions through data, insight, and analytical innovation.

The Company

They are a data-driven organisation undergoing significant digital and analytical transformation. Analytics sits at the heart of key business decisions, with strong investment in data platforms, advanced analytics, and business intelligence capabilities. The environment is highly collaborative, offering significant visibility across senior leadership teams and the opportunity to influence strategic priorities through data-led thinking.

The Role

You will:

• Lead the design, development and delivery of advanced analytics products and insight frameworks
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into analytical solutions
• Shape analytics roadmaps and prioritise initiatives based on commercial impact
• Deliver hands-on advanced analytics using SQL, Python or R, Power BI and statistical modelling techniques
• Drive best practice across analytics, experimentation, forecasting, segmentation and measurement
• Collaborate with data engineering and technology teams to improve data infrastructure and analytical capabilities
• Own the lifecycle of key analytics products from discovery through to implementation and adoption
• Coach, mentor and develop analysts across the wider function
• Establish technical standards, governance and quality assurance processes
• Present complex analytical findings and recommendations to senior leadership audiences

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience in advanced analytics, insight or data science environments
• Expert-level SQL skills and advanced capability in Python or R
• Experience building and scaling analytical products, dashboards, measurement frameworks or insight solutions
• Strong understanding of data modelling, analytical engineering, ETL processes and data quality principles
• Experience applying forecasting, experimentation, segmentation, statistical modelling or machine learning techniques
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex findings into business action
• Strong leadership, mentoring and people development experience
• Experience operating within cross-functional or agile delivery environments

What They Offer

• Salary up to £95,000
• Competitive bonus and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in Watford
• Private healthcare and enhanced pension contributions
• Significant exposure to executive stakeholders and strategic business initiatives
• Opportunity to shape the direction of a growing analytics function
• Clear progression opportunities within a highly data-driven organisation

How to Apply

If you’re looking for a senior analytics leadership role where you can drive strategy, develop analytical capability and deliver measurable business impact, please apply for a confidential discussion.

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Senior Analyst, Performance Marketing

Watford (3 days per week) | Up to £65,000 + Benefits

This is an opportunity to join a highly data-driven organisation where marketing analytics plays a critical role in shaping investment decisions and commercial performance. You’ll work closely with marketing, CRM and data teams to influence how paid media spend is measured, optimised and reported across the business.

The Company

They are a well-established consumer-focused organisation investing heavily in data, analytics and digital transformation. Analytics is embedded within key business functions, providing a strong platform for data professionals to drive meaningful commercial outcomes. The business offers a collaborative environment where insights directly influence strategic decision-making and future investment priorities.

The Role

You will:

• Develop analytical solutions to measure and optimise paid media performance
• Deliver deep-dive analysis across channels, campaigns, audiences and customer behaviour
• Build and maintain reusable datasets, dashboards and automated reporting products
• Use SQL, Python or R, and Power BI to create scalable analytical solutions
• Partner with marketing, CRM, data engineering and agency stakeholders to improve measurement frameworks
• Support ROI, ROAS, attribution and marketing effectiveness analysis
• Contribute to Marketing Mix Modelling initiatives through data preparation, validation and insight generation
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear recommendations for business stakeholders
• Drive improvements in tracking, data quality and campaign measurement processes

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience in performance marketing analytics or marketing analytics
• Advanced SQL skills and experience using Python or R for analysis and automation
• Experience building dashboards, measurement frameworks or analytical products
• Strong understanding of ROI, ROAS, attribution, customer value and marketing performance metrics
• Experience working with paid media, CRM and customer datasets
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Understanding of Marketing Mix Modelling and experimentation methodologies is advantageous
• Experience working within agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams

What They Offer

• Salary up to £65,000
• Competitive bonus and benefits package
• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in Watford
• Private healthcare and enhanced pension contributions
• Strong opportunities for career progression within a growing analytics function
• Exposure to large-scale marketing, customer and digital transformation projects
• Collaborative and supportive working environment with access to senior stakeholders

How to Apply

If you’re looking to combine advanced analytics with commercial impact, apply today for a confidential discussion about this Senior Analyst, Performance Marketing opportunity.

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Senior Digital Analyst
Watford (3 days per week) | Up to £65,000

If you’re passionate about turning digital data into commercial insight, this is an opportunity to join a growing organisation where analytics plays a central role in shaping customer experience and digital performance. You’ll work with senior stakeholders across digital, product and marketing teams to drive data-led decision making and optimisation initiatives.
The Company
They are a well-established consumer-focused organisation investing heavily in digital transformation and customer experience. Data and analytics are at the heart of their strategy, with a strong focus on improving digital journeys and delivering measurable business impact. The business offers a collaborative environment where analysts are encouraged to challenge thinking, influence strategy and drive change through insight.
The Role
You will:

• Deliver analysis and insights to optimise digital customer journeys and improve performance
• Build and enhance dashboards, reporting solutions and self-service analytics tools
• Translate complex data into clear recommendations for business stakeholders
• Identify trends, opportunities and areas for optimisation across digital products
• Work closely with product, marketing and development teams to improve data capture and reporting
• Support experimentation, customer journey analysis and conversion rate optimisation initiatives
• Mentor junior analysts and promote analytics best practice across the business

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience delivering digital analytics and insight
• Advanced SQL skills with experience working with large and complex datasets
• Experience building dashboards and automated reporting solutions
• Strong understanding of digital analytics, customer journeys and online performance metrics
• Ability to communicate insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with tools such as Google Analytics, Piano Analytics, Quantum Metric or similar platforms
• Exposure to Python or R would be beneficial

What They Offer

• Salary up to £65,000
• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in Watford
• Strong opportunities for career development and progression
• Exposure to high-profile digital transformation projects
• Collaborative and supportive analytics function

How to Apply
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Director, Senior Information Architect

$215,000-$265,0000

5 days/week onsite

Overview

A growing investment-oriented organisation is seeking a senior individual contributor to help shape and scale its enterprise data ecosystem. This role will provide architectural leadership across data management, engineering, governance, analytics, and AI initiatives.
The successful candidate will define enterprise data standards, establish scalable architecture patterns, and ensure data platforms support future business growth while maintaining strong governance, security, and compliance practices. This is a highly collaborative role that requires the ability to bridge business strategy and technical execution while influencing senior stakeholders.
This is not primarily a hands-on development position, but candidates should possess sufficient technical depth to evaluate architecture decisions, review data engineering approaches, assess code and pipeline quality, and establish best practices across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise data architecture strategy.
• Design scalable approaches for data ingestion, integration, storage, and consumption.
• Establish enterprise standards for data modelling, architecture governance, and platform design.
• Lead architecture decisions related to modern cloud-based data platforms and lakehouse environments.
• Develop governance frameworks covering data quality, metadata management, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Design and scale metadata, cataloguing, and business data definition frameworks.
• Create architectural standards for data pipelines, orchestration, and operational processes.
• Partner with engineering, governance, and analytics teams to align platform capabilities with business priorities.
• Support the implementation of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics capabilities on top of enterprise data assets.
• Guide large-scale data platform modernisation and migration initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into pragmatic technical architecture solutions.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to stakeholders across the organisation.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in enterprise data architecture and modern data platform design.
• Strong expertise with Databricks or comparable cloud-native data platforms.
• Deep understanding of dimensional modelling, including star schema design and Kimball methodologies.
• Extensive experience with enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models.
• Strong knowledge of data security, privacy, access controls, and regulatory considerations.
• Experience designing scalable data management and analytics ecosystems.
• Ability to develop architecture standards and best-practice frameworks.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end data lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate independently.
• Capable of partnering effectively with data engineers, architects, and business leaders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hadoop and broader Apache ecosystem technologies.
• Background supporting large-scale enterprise data environments.
• Experience implementing and governing Unity Catalog or similar enterprise metadata/catalog solutions.
• Experience with medallion architecture patterns.
• Exposure to AI/ML platform architecture, MLOps, and production analytics environments.
• Experience leading enterprise data platform migrations or transformation programmes.
• Consulting or advisory experience supporting long-term enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience within highly regulated industries such as financial services, banking, insurance, asset management, or similar environments.

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