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Technical Manager
Washington
$70 - $85
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ContractWashington, District of Columbia
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Job Title
Technical Manager (Production Support Lead or Development Manager)
Intro Harnham
Harnham is supporting a government digital transformation project delivered through a specialist consulting partner. The project requires experienced technical leadership across both delivery and production support.
Intro Client
The client is a boutique consulting firm delivering business process automation solutions for public sector organisations.
Role Details
- Role: Technical Manager (Production Support Lead or Development Manager)
- Location: DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) or remote, East coast based
- Hours: EST business hours required
- Pay Range: $70-$85/hr
- Length: 6-12 month initial contract with a likely extension
- Utilization: Full time
- Domain: Government, public sector
Intro to Role
This role provides senior technical and people leadership across Appian‑based BPM applications supporting government operations. Depending on background, the focus will be either production support leadership or development delivery management. The role balances hands‑on technical understanding with team and delivery oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage Appian development and support teams
- Own delivery timelines, technical quality, and release coordination
- Oversee production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis
- Guide solution design for BPM and Appian applications
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritise work and manage risk
Requirements
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 15 plus years of overall IT experience
- 8 plus years designing and delivering BPM or Appian applications
- 5 plus years of hands‑on Appian experience
- 5 plus years managing software development projects
- Strong SQL experience
Nice to have
- Appian Level 3 certification
- Experience leading teams in government or regulated environments
Outro
This role suits a senior technical leader who enjoys owning delivery and stability for mission‑critical systems in a structured, high‑impact environment.
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Appian Lead Developer
Washington
$60 - $75
+ Data Engineering
ContractWashington, District of Columbia
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Job Title
Appian Lead Developer
Intro Harnham
Harnham is supporting a government project delivered through a specialist consulting partner. This role sits on a long‑running digital modernization initiative.
Intro Client
The client is a boutique consulting firm delivering business process automation solutions for public sector organisations.
Role Details
- Role: Appian Lead Developer
- Location: DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) or remote, East coast based
- Hours: EST business hours required
- Pay Range: $60-$75/hr
- Length: 6-12 month initial contract with likely extension
- Utilization: Full time
- Domain: Government, public sector
Intro to Role
This role leads the technical delivery of Appian‑based workflow solutions supporting government operations. You will act as the senior Appian authority, shaping design decisions and ensuring quality, performance, and maintainability across the platform. The work is delivery‑focused and hands‑on.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end‑to‑end development of enterprise Appian BPM solutions
- Design scalable process models, records, reports, and sites
- Write complex Appian SAIL code for dynamic user interfaces
- Build and manage integrations using connected systems and data stores
- Review and guide work from other Appian developers
- Support production issues and enhancements at L3 level
Requirements
Must have
- 12 plus years of overall IT experience
- 5 plus years delivering production Appian solutions
- Expert knowledge of current Appian versions
- Advanced SAIL development experience
- Strong experience with Records, CDTs, Process Models, and Integrations
Nice to have
- Appian Level 3 certification
- Experience working on government or public sector programmes
Outro
This is a high‑impact role for a senior Appian professional who enjoys owning delivery in a structured, mission‑driven environment.
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Database Administrator (DBA)
Washington
$65 - $80
+ Data Engineering
ContractWashington, District of Columbia
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Job Title
Database Administrator
Intro Harnham
Harnham is supporting a government digital project delivered through a specialist consulting partner. This role focuses on database performance and reliability for business‑critical systems.
Intro Client
The client is a boutique consulting firm delivering workflow and automation solutions for public sector organisations.
Role Details
- Role: Database Administrator (DBA)
- Location: DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) or remote, East coast based
- Hours: EST business hours required
- Pay Range: $65-$80/hr
- Length: 6-12 month contract with likely extension
- Utilization: Full time
- Domain: Government, public sector
Intro to Role
This role owns database performance and optimisation for applications supporting government operations. You will focus on stored procedures, tuning, and stability, working closely with Appian and application teams to ensure systems perform reliably at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Tune databases to improve performance and stability
- Design, optimise, and maintain stored procedures
- Investigate and resolve database performance issues
- Support application teams with SQL and data optimisation
- Contribute to best practices for database reliability and scalability
Requirements
Must have
- 10 plus years of overall IT experience
- 4 plus years working with stored procedures
- 4 plus years of database performance tuning
- Strong SQL development and optimisation skills
- Experience supporting production databases
Nice to have
- Appian database experience
- Experience working in government or regulated environments
Outro
This role suits a senior DBA who enjoys improving system performance and supporting mission‑critical platforms in a structured, high‑impact environment.
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QA Lead Engineer
Washington, D.C.
$60 - $75
+ Data Engineering
ContractWashington, District of Columbia
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Job Title
QA Lead Engineer
Intro Harnham
Harnham is supporting a government digital project delivered through a specialist consulting partner. This role focuses on quality leadership for mission‑critical applications.
Intro Client
The client is a boutique consulting firm delivering automation and workflow solutions for public sector organisations.
Role Details
- Role: QA Lead Engineer
- Location: DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) or remote, East coast based
- Hours: EST business hours required
- Pay Range: $60-$75/hr
- Length: 6-12 month initial contract with potential for extension
- Utilization: 40 hours per week
- Domain: Government, public sector
Intro to Role
This role leads quality assurance for Appian‑based BPM applications supporting government operations. You will own test strategy, automation frameworks, and CI/CD integration while providing direction to a QA team. The focus is on preventing defects and ensuring stable, repeatable releases.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead QA strategy and test automation for Appian applications
- Design and maintain automated test scripts across multiple layers
- Integrate testing into DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Review SQL queries to validate data accuracy and behaviour
- Provide direction, mentoring, and oversight to QA team members
- Support release readiness and production validation
Requirements
Must have
- 12 plus years of relevant IT experience
- Strong DevOps and CI/CD integration experience
- Extensive hands‑on test automation scripting
- 4 plus years testing Appian applications
- Strong SQL query writing skills
- Experience leading or overseeing QA teams
Nice to have
- Appian certification
- Experience testing applications in government or regulated environments
Outro
This role is ideal for a senior QA leader who enjoys combining automation, DevOps, and team leadership to protect system quality in high‑impact environments.
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Senior BI Engineer
London
£60000 - £65000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior BI Engineer (Fixed-Term Contract)
Fully Remote, UK
£65,000 pro rata, 8-month FTC
This is an opportunity to take ownership of a modern BI and analytics environment within a globally scaled, data-driven organisation. You will play a key role in shaping how data is modelled, visualised, and consumed across the business, with direct exposure to senior stakeholders and meaningful impact from day one.
The Company
They are a technology-led organisation operating at global scale, enabling businesses to make better decisions through high-quality data and insights. Data sits at the core of everything they do, supporting commercial strategy, product development, and performance measurement. With a strong culture of collaboration and innovation, they invest heavily in their data platform and analytical capability.
The Role
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data models and automated ETL or ELT pipelines within a cloud data warehouse environment.
- Lead the development of executive-level dashboards and self-serve reporting solutions that balance clarity with analytical depth.
- Partner with stakeholders across non-technical teams to define KPIs and translate business questions into robust analytical solutions.
- Establish best practices around data governance, documentation, and quality to ensure a trusted single source of truth.
- Optimise SQL queries and BI assets to deliver high-performing, low-latency analytics at scale.
- Provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentorship, raising standards across data modelling and visualisation.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience in BI engineering, analytics engineering, or data engineering within a modern data stack.
- Advanced SQL capability, including complex transformations, window functions, and performance optimisation.
- Proven experience working with cloud data warehouses such as Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
- Deep understanding of dimensional modelling techniques and tools such as dbt.
- Hands-on expertise with enterprise BI platforms, such as Power BI, Looker or Omni.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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Senior BI Engineer
London
£65000 - £68000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Senior BI Engineer – 8 Month FTC
£65,000 | Remote
We are looking for a Senior BI Engineer to join a global technology business on an 8-month fixed-term contract.
You will design and develop scalable BI solutions, data models, dashboards, and reporting frameworks that turn complex data into clear business insights.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building automated ETL/ELT pipelines and data models
- Creating dashboards and reports for senior leaders and business users
- Improving data quality, documentation, and governance
- Optimising SQL queries and dashboard performance
- Working with stakeholders to define KPIs and technical requirements
- Supporting junior engineers with code reviews and BI best practice
Skills and experience:
- 5+ years’ experience in BI, data engineering, analytics engineering, or technical analytics
- Strong SQL skills, including joins, window functions, and performance tuning
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery
- Strong data modelling experience, ideally with dbt
- Experience with BI tools such as Omni, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or Sigma
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Experience with Git, CI/CD, Agile, Salesforce, remote working, or global teams would be beneficial.
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Senior Data Scientist
London
£100000 - £130000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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Senior Data Scientist
London
£100,000 to £130,000
This is an opportunity to step into a highly influential data science role within a business where analytics sits at the heart of commercial decision making. You will work on complex, high-impact pricing problems, have clear ownership of your work, and see your models directly shape business outcomes.
The Company
They are a technology-led organisation operating in the insurance space, known for their strong investment in data, analytics and engineering. The business is well funded, ambitious, and sets high standards for analytical thinking and technical quality. Data scientists are viewed as strategic partners, not service providers, and are encouraged to challenge, innovate and drive measurable impact.
The Role
- Deliver data science within a pricing-focused environment, influencing rates, tariffs and overall market competitiveness
- Design, build and refine predictive models to better understand risk, customer behaviour and price sensitivity
- Identify and integrate new data sources to improve pricing accuracy and decision making
- Use simulation and modelling techniques to estimate outcomes such as claim frequency and customer responses to price changes
- Translate complex analysis into clear, commercially focused recommendations for senior stakeholders
Your Skills & Experience
- A strong academic background and Masters degree in a STEM discipline such as mathematics or physics
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to articulate business impact clearly
- Strong experience using Python for data analysis and modelling
- Experience building and applying predictive models in a commercial context
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a high level of ownership and accountability
What They Offer
- Salary between £100,000 and £130,000 plus a comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid working with a minimum of one day per week in the London office
- Exposure to high-value, business-critical projects with real visibility and influence
- A strong culture of learning, development and progression for high-performing data scientists
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Senior Valuations Manager
London
£120000 - £150000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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Senior Valuations Manager
London
£120,000 to £150,000 plus benefits.
This is a high impact leadership role where you will shape how valuation and NPV models are designed and used across a modern consumer lending business. You will move beyond traditional approaches, embedding sophisticated valuation models directly into credit decisioning and strategy.
The Company
They are a fast growing, profitable digital financial services organisation operating across multiple consumer lending and banking products. With significant investment in analytics and technology, they place strong emphasis on data driven decision making. Valuations sit at the heart of their growth strategy.
The Role
- Set the strategic direction for valuation, NPV and IRR modelling across lending products
- Build and evolve account level valuation models used in live decisioning
- Partner with Credit Risk, Product, Finance and Impairment teams
- Lead and develop a team of credit analysts with close links to data science
- Drive innovation in valuation methodology and modelling infrastructure
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in valuation, NPV and IRR modelling within consumer lending
- Proven ability to build models from first principles
- Strong conceptual thinker with confidence to challenge existing approaches
- Python experience within modelling environments
- Effective people leadership and senior stakeholder management
What They Offer
- Salary of £120,000 to £150,000 plus benefits
- Hybrid working with flexibility
- High visibility role with genuine influence on credit and growth strategy
- Clear scope for career progression
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