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DIVERSITY GUIDES 2022

An in-depth look into diversity within Data & AI, we have been carrying out primary research for a number of years to create annual diversity guides.

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UK DIVERSITY REPORT

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Fraud Analyst

London

£275 - £300

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Contract
London

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Fraud Analyst – Decision Intelligence

Location: Remote (UK)
Duration: 3-Month Contract
Rate: Up to £300 per day (Inside IR35)

The Company

We’re working with a high-growth FinTech looking to strengthen its Fraud Decision Intelligence capability during a busy period whilst they build out the permanent team.

This is an opportunity to join a data-driven fraud function focused on moving from a reactive to a proactive approach to fraud prevention. You’ll work closely with fraud, product and data stakeholders to identify trends, uncover opportunities and improve fraud controls across a payments environment.

The Role

Joining the Decision Intelligence team, you’ll use data to investigate fraud trends, analyse transaction behaviour and support the optimisation of fraud controls and decisioning strategies.

You’ll be expected to work independently, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and helping shape how fraud is detected and prevented across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Analysing fraud and transaction data using SQL
  • Identifying emerging fraud trends and risks
  • Supporting fraud decisioning and rule optimisation activities
  • Investigating control performance and recommending improvements
  • Using BI tools to interrogate and visualise data
  • Working with stakeholders to translate insights into actionable recommendations
  • Supporting a more proactive fraud prevention strategy

Skills & Experience

We’re looking for candidates with:

  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets
  • Experience using BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI or similar
  • Previous experience within fraud analytics, fraud strategy, fraud prevention or fraud risk
  • Payments, cards or wider FinTech experience
  • Experience identifying trends and producing actionable insights
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Desirable

  • Experience with fraud decisioning platforms
  • Exposure to fraud rule design, implementation or optimisation
  • Python for automation and analysis
  • Experience balancing fraud prevention against customer experience and approval rates

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Head of Data Science – Credit Risk

London

£120000 - £140000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE – CREDIT RISK
£120,000-140,000 (dependent on experience)
London – 3 days in office

Great opportunity with a scaling FinTech lender in the UK. This business offer a fast-paced and driven work environment, with a really collaborative team culture that encourages employee development and growth.

THE COMPANY

This dynamic and fast-paced lender is seeking a driven and experienced individual to join their team to own their modelling function, across credit risk, collections, fraud and more. You’d work as an Individual Contributor to lead the Data Science function to make an impact on business performance.

THE ROLE

  • Develop a range of credit models within the business, predominantly scorecards and broader decisioning models
  • Using innovative machine learning techniques to further enhance the model suite and drive profitability across the business
  • Own implementation and impact of predictive models across the product suite

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Essential to have experience developing predictive models
  • SQL and Python experience is essential
  • Highly desirable to have had experience in Consumer Lending and a strong understanding of the credit lifecycle
  • Experience in a fast-paced environment and ability to work across multiple projects, in a FinTech is a plus

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • Base salary from £120-140,000 depending on experience
  • Private medical care
  • 25 days holiday
  • Cycle to work scheme

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link

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Senior Data Engineer

Addison, TX

$140000 - $160000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Addison, Texas

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Senior Data Engineer

Location: Dallas/Addison, TX (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite)

Salary: $140,000-$160,000 Base

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a growing, private equity-backed organization seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale its enterprise data infrastructure.

The company is undergoing a significant data modernization initiative, transitioning from fragmented systems and reporting environments to a centralized data platform built on Snowflake.

This individual will work alongside an external consulting partner during the initial implementation before taking full ownership of the backend data environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys building scalable solutions, driving data quality improvements, and working closely with business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development, optimization, and ongoing management of the Snowflake data warehouse environment.
  • Partner with external consultants during implementation and transition into primary technical ownership of the platform.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data integrations, and transformations using SQL, Python, and modern data engineering tools.
  • Improve data integrity, consistency, and governance across multiple business systems and departments.
  • Collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
  • Support data architecture, modeling, documentation, and integration with BI platforms such as Domo.
  • Help establish data engineering best practices and support future analytics and AI initiatives.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, or related disciplines.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, and Python.
  • Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and warehouse environments.
  • Exposure to data warehouse implementations, migrations, or modernization projects.
  • Strong understanding of data quality, integration, and architecture best practices.
  • Ability to independently own technical projects and communicate effectively with nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with dbt, Fivetran, or similar data transformation and ingestion tools.
  • Familiarity with Domo or other BI/reporting platforms.
  • Experience integrating data from ERP, operational, or field service management systems.
  • Background in smaller data teams, high-growth businesses, or PE-backed organizations.
  • Exposure to data governance, medallion architecture, or AI/ML infrastructure.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

  • Technical Ownership: Take ownership of a modern enterprise data platform from implementation through long-term development.
  • Greenfield Opportunity: Help shape the architecture, processes, and standards of a growing data environment.
  • Business Impact: Work directly with stakeholders and influence how data drives business decisions.
  • Growth Potential: Opportunity to expand into technical leadership and contribute to future AI initiatives.

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

If you’re a hands-on Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to build, own, and scale a modern data environment, we’d love to hear from you!

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Associate Director Qualitative Research

London

£60000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced qualitative research leader to join a growing insights and research business operating within the healthcare and life sciences sector. The role combines strategic client leadership, operational excellence, and people management, offering significant scope to shape team performance and client outcomes.

The Company
They are a well-established international research and insights organisation supporting clients across healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, and life sciences industries. Their work helps organisations make informed commercial and strategic decisions through high-quality research and consultancy services. With a collaborative and supportive culture, they are committed to delivering exceptional client outcomes while investing in the development of their people.

The Role
As Associate Director, Qualitative Research, you will lead a team responsible for delivering complex qualitative research projects for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading, coaching, and developing a team of qualitative research professionals
  • Managing team performance, workload allocation, and professional development
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with healthcare, pharmaceutical, and life sciences clients
  • Overseeing end-to-end project delivery, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard
  • Managing project escalations and driving solutions to operational challenges
  • Partnering with senior stakeholders to improve processes, systems, and service delivery
  • Supporting commercial performance, project profitability, and client retention
  • Driving client service excellence across key accounts
  • Identifying opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and team effectiveness
  • Contributing to the development of best practice standards across research operations

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong qualitative market research experience within healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, or life sciences sectors
  • Proven people management experience, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
  • Leading complex research projects from initiation through to delivery
  • Experience managing client relationships and providing consultative support to stakeholders
  • Strong project delivery and operational management capabilities
  • Commercial awareness with an understanding of project profitability and client account management
  • Good communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and functions

What They Offer

  • Performance-related bonus
  • Clear progression opportunities into senior leadership roles

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Data Analyst

Windsor

£60000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Windsor, Berkshire

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Data Analyst

This is an opportunity to join a PE-backed business building its data and analytics capability. You’ll work across data science, machine learning, and data modelling projects that support operational and commercial decision-making.

They are investing in data, AI, and cloud technologies to improve processes and support growth. The analytics team works closely with stakeholders across the business to deliver reporting, forecasting, and machine learning solutions.

The Role
You will:

  • Clean, transform, and prepare data from multiple sources
  • Build and maintain data models within a cloud data platform
  • Develop predictive models for workforce, occupancy, and operational forecasting
  • Work with Snowflake or Databricks to support analytics and machine learning use cases
  • Create features and datasets for modelling and reporting
  • Deploy and monitor machine learning models
  • Support data quality, governance, and documentation
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify and deliver analytical solutions

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong Python skills, commercial experience in advanced analytics
  • Experience with data wrangling and data cleaning
  • Experience designing and maintaining data models
  • Experience working with Snowflake and/or Databricks
  • Knowledge of predictive modelling, forecasting, and classification techniques
  • Experience working with cloud-based data environments
  • Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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Operations Analytics Lead

London

£100000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact analytics function within a complex, data-rich environment. You will shape the data and insights strategy, influence senior decision-making, and build a best-in-class analytics capability that supports operational performance and business growth.

The Company
They are a fintech where data plays a critical role in driving operational excellence, customer outcomes, and strategic decision-making across the business.
With significant investment in analytics, reporting, and automation, they are looking for an experienced leader who can bring together data, technology, and commercial insight to deliver measurable business impact.

The Role
As the Operations Analytics & Insight Lead, you will be responsible for setting the direction of the analytics function while leading and developing a high-performing team.

You will:

  • Define and deliver the data and insights strategy for the operations function.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of analysts, creating a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
  • Act as the senior analytics partner to leadership teams, providing insight that drives business decisions.
  • Establish and maintain trusted operational KPIs, reporting frameworks, and measurement standards.
  • Design and oversee analytical approaches for major transformation and optimisation initiatives.
  • Translate complex business challenges into structured analytical solutions and actionable recommendations.
  • Drive best practice across SQL development, reporting, analytics, and data governance.
  • Champion self-service reporting and scalable data solutions to improve business efficiency.
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders to influence strategic priorities through evidence-based decision-making.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience leading a Data, Analytics, or Insights team within a commercial environment.
  • Proven people management experience, including mentoring, coaching, and developing analysts.
  • Advanced SQL skills and the ability to work confidently with large, complex datasets.
  • Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of experimentation, statistical analysis, performance measurement, and KPI development.
  • Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
  • Ability to communicate complex analytical findings to senior and executive stakeholders.
  • Commercial mindset with a track record of using data to influence business outcomes.
  • Python experience for analysis or automation would be advantageous.

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Data Scientist

Windsor

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Windsor, Berkshire

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Data Scientist
Windsor – 3-4 days per week
Up to £60,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation at a pivotal stage in its data and AI journey. You’ll play a key role in building a modern analytics capability from the ground up, helping to transform fragmented data into actionable insight while contributing to innovative machine learning, forecasting, and AI initiatives.

The Company
They are a well-established organisation undergoing significant growth and investment in data, analytics, and technology. With an ambitious transformation programme underway, they are modernising their data infrastructure and building a scalable cloud-based platform to support future growth.

Their focus is on improving decision-making through high-quality data, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled applications. Working in a small, collaborative team, you’ll have the opportunity to influence strategy, shape solutions, and see your work deliver tangible business impact.

The Role
As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with senior stakeholders to develop data products, analytical models, and AI-driven solutions that support both operational and commercial objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and implementing scalable data models within a modern cloud data platform
  • Improving data quality, standardisation, and reconciliation across multiple source systems
  • Performing entity resolution and fuzzy matching to create trusted records and improve data integrity
  • Developing forecasting models to support business performance, resource planning, and operational decision-making
  • Building machine learning and predictive analytics solutions across a range of business challenges
  • Supporting AI-driven document processing and information extraction initiatives
  • Creating insightful Power BI dashboards and reports for senior leadership teams
  • Working with Snowflake to support data warehousing and analytical modelling activities
  • Contributing to data governance, testing, and quality assurance processes
  • Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business challenges into analytical solutions

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Analytics Engineering, or a similar field
  • Excellent SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets
  • Experience building data models for analytics and reporting
  • Exposure to forecasting, predictive modelling, machine learning, or statistical analysis
  • Experience working with data quality improvement, reconciliation, or fragmented datasets
  • Knowledge of Power BI for reporting and stakeholder-facing analytics
  • Experience working within modern cloud data environments, ideally Snowflake
  • Understanding of data warehousing concepts and analytical data modelling
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business stakeholders
  • STEM-related academic background

Desirable experience:

  • Snowflake Cortex, AI applications, or document processing solutions
  • Databricks or similar cloud analytics platforms
  • CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or software development lifecycle processes
  • Identity resolution, record matching, or master data management initiatives

What They Offer

  • Opportunity to work on AI, machine learning, forecasting, and data platform projects
  • Exposure to senior stakeholders and business-critical initiatives
  • A collaborative environment where your work will directly influence business outcomes
  • Clear opportunity to grow alongside a rapidly expanding organisation and analytics function

How to Apply
To find out more about this Data Scientist opportunity in Windsor, please submit your application today.

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Senior Data Scientist (Marketing)

£70000 - £90000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
England

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Senior Data Scientist, Marketing
Fully Remote (UK)
Up to £90,000

This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping marketing investment decisions within a fast-growing digital business. You’ll combine advanced marketing measurement, experimentation, and predictive modelling to influence how significant acquisition budgets are allocated, delivering clear commercial impact across the organisation.

The Company
They are a rapidly growing digital marketplace with a strong consumer brand and a mission-led culture. Operating internationally, they connect customers with unique experiences through a network of independent partners and suppliers. The business is investing heavily in marketing growth and is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to ensure investment decisions are evidence-based, measurable, and commercially effective. Their remote-first environment combines flexibility with a strong emphasis on collaboration, ownership, and data-driven decision making.

The Role
As a Senior Data Scientist specialising in Marketing Analytics and Measurement, you will work closely with senior stakeholders across Data and Marketing to improve marketing effectiveness and customer acquisition performance.

Responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) to evaluate channel performance, diminishing returns, and budget allocation decisions.
  • Designing and analysing incrementality experiments, including conversion lift studies, geo experiments, and holdout testing.
  • Improving marketing measurement and attribution frameworks in an increasingly privacy-focused digital landscape.
  • Building and maintaining Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) models to support acquisition, retention, and bidding strategies.
  • Applying statistical and causal inference techniques to distinguish genuine business impact from correlation.
  • Translating complex analytical outputs into clear recommendations for commercial and marketing stakeholders.
  • Using AI tools and workflows to accelerate analysis, experimentation, and insight generation while maintaining rigorous analytical standards.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to establish best practices in experimentation and measurement.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in marketing measurement, including Marketing Mix Modelling, incrementality testing, lift studies, or geo experimentation.
  • Advanced statistical knowledge covering causal inference, experimental design, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and sample sizing.
  • Strong SQL and Python capabilities within modern cloud-based analytics environments.
  • Experience working with tools such as Snowflake, dbt, and contemporary analytics platforms.
  • Understanding of paid media measurement, attribution methodologies, and privacy-related tracking limitations.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influence strategic decision making.
  • Experience using AI-enabled workflows to improve analytical efficiency and scalability.
  • Exposure to Bayesian modelling, value-based bidding, LTV modelling, marketplace businesses, or travel-related sectors would be beneficial.

What They Offer

  • Annual performance-based bonus.
  • Remote working support and workspace allowance.
  • Access to regular company meetups and team events.
  • Employee discounts and additional benefits.
  • The opportunity to shape marketing measurement strategy during a period of significant growth and investment.

If you’re a commercially minded Senior Data Scientist with expertise in marketing measurement, experimentation, and modelling, apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity.

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