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Senior Data Engineer
London
£10000 - £10000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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SENIOR DATA ENGINEER
£100,000
REMOTE (LONDON)
An opportunity to join a fast-growing, consumer-focused digital platform that is redefining how modern users interact with data-led products. This is a senior, high-impact role within a scaling data function, offering ownership, influence, and the chance to work on systems operating at significant scale.
THE COMPANY
A well-funded, UK-based digital entertainment business operating within a regulated environment. Founded in London and backed by recent investment, the company has grown quickly by focusing on strong product design, performance, and an engineering-first culture.
The business values scalable solutions over quick fixes, with a collaborative and technically ambitious environment. The role sits within a growing data function that plays a critical part in supporting continued customer growth and increasingly real-time analytics use cases.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and scaling core data infrastructure, working closely with senior data and engineering stakeholders. You’ll be hands-on across multiple initiatives while helping shape platform direction and technical standards.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable, production-grade data pipelines
- Scaling the data platform to support increasing data volumes and user growth
- Developing and owning robust data models used across the business
- Helping build a full staging and testing environment that closely mirrors production
- Improving reliability, monitoring, and observability across data systems
- Supporting a move towards lower-latency analytics from an engineering perspective
This role offers genuine architectural input and is well suited to engineers who enjoy complex technical challenges in a scale-up setting.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Required:
- 5+ years’ experience in data engineering or software engineering roles
- Strong Python and SQL capability
- Experience building data platforms in AWS
- Excellent data modelling fundamentals (non-negotiable)
- Experience working in smaller companies or growing environments
- Engineering-first mindset, ideally with a backend or software engineering background
Desirable:
- Experience with Snowflake
- Orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow
- dbt for data transformation and modelling
- Apache Iceberg or modern table formats
- Background in high-growth, consumer-facing products
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- Base salary up to £100,000
- Competitive benefits package
- Fully remote working within the UK
- Optional London office access for collaboration
- Opportunity to work on a modern, evolving data stack
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Harry Lack via the Apply link. All applications will be handled confidentially.
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CRO Engineer / Specialist
City of London
£300 - £400
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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CRO Engineer / Specialist
London, UK, fully remote
Outside IR35, 6-months, £300-400 Day Rate
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape experimentation and optimisation across a fast-growing digital platform. Working fully remote from the UK, you will partner with a UK-based digital team while supporting a wider international organisation, operating on UK working hours. The project offers real ownership, clear deliverables, and the chance to influence measurable commercial outcomes.
The Company
They are a technology-led business operating in the online travel and insurance space, with a strong focus on customer experience and performance-led growth. The organisation combines a mature digital product with an ambitious optimisation roadmap. Their UK-based digital team plays a central role in driving experimentation, insight, and conversion performance across the platform.
The Role and Deliverables
- Work on end-to-end CRO process, from hypothesis generation through to execution and analysis
- Design, build, and deploy A/B and multivariate tests across web journeys
- Work closely with product, design, and analytics teams to prioritise optimisation opportunities
- Implement tracking and experimentation logic to ensure data quality and test validity
- Analyse test results and translate insights into clear recommendations
- Deliver measurable improvements in conversion rate and user experience
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in CRO engineering or hands-on experimentation roles
- Proficiency in implementing and managing tests using leading experimentation tools
- Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS for test development
- Strong analytical capability, with confidence in interpreting behavioural and performance data
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional digital teams in agile environments
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote contract role
How to Apply
Apply now to explore this CRO Engineer / Specialist contract and make an immediate impact on a data-driven digital product.
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AI Forward Software Engineer
New York
$55 - $65
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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AI‑Forward Software Engineer
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data and AI, is currently partnering with a modern healthcare technology company building real‑time remote patient monitoring and AI‑driven engagement platforms. Their cloud‑native system supports new innovative health tech solutions, with a strong focus on patient outcomes and clinical efficiency.
- Role: AI‑Forward Software Engineer
- Location: Fully Remote
- Pay: $55 – $65 per hour W2 only
- Length:12 month Initial contract
- Utilization: 40 hours per week
- Timezone: EST‑aligned, flexible
The Role
This role is ideal for a hungry, curious, and AI‑native engineer who wants to work across the full cloud and AI stack. You do not need years of machine learning experience-what matters is strong software fundamentals, comfort in the cloud, and fluency with modern AI development tools.
You’ll join a small, high‑impact engineering team with real ownership, contributing directly to AI‑driven capabilities such as voice agents, risk scoring, and intelligent clinical workflows. The scope is broad, expectations are high, and learning happens fast.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cloud services, APIs, and pipelines that support AI and ML workloads.
- Design and evolve infrastructure‑as‑code using modern tooling (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Containerize services and ship production code through CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate AI models and third‑party AI APIs into real‑world systems.
- Actively use AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development and share best practices with the team.
- Contribute to a secure, auditable architecture suitable for healthcare data and regulated environments.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and AI leadership on emerging AI‑driven product capabilities.
Requirements
Must Have
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, debugging, and version control.
- Proficiency in Python (TypeScript is a plus).
- Hands‑on experience with AWS (or another major cloud platform).
- Experience writing or working with infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Comfort with containers, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated use of AI development tools in day‑to‑day workflows.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to ML pipelines, LLM APIs, or agentic AI systems.
- Experience working in regulated industries such as healthcare or finance.
- Open‑source contributions, side projects, or strong personal GitHub portfolio.
Why This Opportunity?
- Work on a real AI platform in healthcare, not demos or experiments.
- Small team, broad scope-touch cloud, infrastructure, and AI systems end‑to‑end.
- Strong AI‑tooling culture with encouragement to push and shape how tools are used.
- Fully remote, autonomous environment with genuine ownership.
- High visibility impact on products improving clinical efficiency and patient care.
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to grow rapidly, work with modern AI tooling, and help define the next generation of AI‑driven healthcare technology. So if interested, please apply below
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AI Software Engineer
Manhattan
$60 - $70
+ Data Engineering
ContractManhattan, New York
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Key Responsibilities
- Build cloud services and APIs that support AI and ML workloads.
- Develop infrastructure‑as‑code to keep systems repeatable and reliable.
- Containerize services and automate deployments through CI/CD.
- Integrate AI models and external AI APIs into live systems.
- Improve security and auditability for regulated healthcare data.
Requirements: Must have
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and clean coding practices.
- Professional Python experience (TypeScript exposure is a plus).
- Hands‑on cloud experience, ideally AWS, with infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Experience with containers, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Active use of AI coding tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or similar.
- Comfortable learning quickly in changing technical environments.
Nice to have
- Exposure to ML pipelines, LLM APIs, or agent‑based systems.
- Experience working in regulated industries such as healthcare or finance.
- Side projects or open‑source contributions.
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Data Scientist
Birmingham
£55000 - £65000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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Are you a Data Scientist who enjoys building real‑world models that drive commercial decisions, not just experimentation? I’m hiring for a Data Scientist to join a leading data and analytics consultancy working across customer insight, marketing, and predictive modelling.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work on high‑impact data products, combining advanced analytics, business understanding, and client‑facing delivery in a collaborative, product‑focused environment.
The company
This is a well‑established data consultancy that sits at the intersection of data provision, analytics, and product development. They work with high‑volume customer data across sectors like utilities, telecoms, financial services, and charities – using data to solve real commercial problems and drive better decisions.
They’ve built out a Customer Intelligence Platform, where data science, analytics, and product teams collaborate to create scalable, reusable data products.
Where you fit
You’ll sit within the Data Science team, working closely with Product Managers, Data Analysts, and subject‑matter experts.
This is a hands‑on modelling role with strong client interaction, where you’ll take problems from discovery through to delivery – combining technical expertise with commercial thinking.
What you’ll be doing
- Build predictive models (often propensity modelling / scoring models) to solve real customer and business problems
- Work directly with clients to understand challenges, run discovery sessions, and shape analytical approaches
- Develop and refine models, including training, testing, and optimisation
- Lead rapid prototyping and proof‑of‑concept work using Databricks notebooks
- Define features, model structures, and scoring outputs for data products
- Translate analytical outputs into clear, actionable insights and presentations for clients
- Contribute to the development of scalable, reusable data products within the platform
Example project
You might build a model that predicts which customers are most likely to repay debt, then segment them to determine the best engagement strategy – using behavioural and demographic patterns to optimise outcomes.
Tech stack
- Python & SQL (essential)
- Databricks (core analytics environment)
- Azure‑based data platform (with flexibility depending on client environments)
What you bring
Must‑haves
- 3+ years experience in data science
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience building and evaluating predictive models
- Understanding of data modelling and feature engineering
- Ability to translate data into clear commercial insight and recommendations
- Confident communicator – comfortable working directly with clients
- Consultancy or client‑facing experience
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks or cloud platforms (Azure, etc.)
- Background in customer, marketing, or transactional data
- Exposure to industries like telecoms, financial services, or utilities
Why this role
- Work on end‑to‑end data science projects – not just isolated modelling
- Strong balance of technical work and commercial impact
- Opportunity to contribute to product development and innovation
- Exposure to multiple clients, industries, and use‑cases
- Collaborative team environment with analysts, SMEs, and product teams
Working pattern
- Hybrid: 1 day per week in London
- Open to candidates based in the Midlands who can commute weekly
- Additional flexibility for the right candidate
- UK travel to clients may be required depending on project work
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Senior Product Manager
City of London
£80000 - £100000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentCity of London, London
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Senior Product Manager
London (Hybrid)
80-100k
We are hiring a Product Manager to take full ownership of a core platform at a pivotal stage of growth. You will lead the roadmap, drive delivery, and embed practical AI into everyday workflows, turning semi‑manual processes into a scalable, intelligent product. This role stands out for its true end to end ownership, high autonomy, and direct impact on how the business operates and grows. You will work closely with users, senior stakeholders, Engineering and Data to deliver meaningful product improvements with visible commercial value.
The Company
We are a founder led, high growth organisation operating in a specialist professional services environment. Technology sits at the centre of how we deliver value, with Product, Engineering and Data working closely alongside client facing teams. Having invested in a strong platform foundation, we are now focused on accelerating product velocity and impact through smarter workflows.
The Role
- Own the full product roadmap and delivery for a core internal and client facing platform
- Translate business and user needs into clear epics, specifications and delivery ready tickets
- Balance new feature development, optimisation work, and technical debt through clear prioritisation
- Act as the day to day product contact for Client Services, Sales and Leadership
- Work closely with users to understand real operational pain points
- Partner with Engineering on feasibility, sequencing and delivery to reduce ambiguity and unblock teams
- Collaborate with Data to ensure alignment with data structure, quality and definitions
- Identify and embed practical AI and LLM use cases across matching, data enrichment and user experience
- Reduce reliance on manual processes and spreadsheets through automation
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience owning and delivering a product roadmap in a lean environment
- Proven ability to lead discovery, prioritisation and execution end to end
- Confidence working closely with Engineering and Data teams
- Practical experience applying AI or LLMs to improve real workflows
- Clear communicator able to manage senior stakeholders and make trade off decisions
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and driving delivery
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
- High autonomy and visibility within a founder led organisation
- True ownership of a critical platform with business wide impact
- Opportunity to apply AI in a practical, valuable way
- Clear scope for progression as the product function continues to grow
How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Product Manager opportunity and the impact you could have.
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AI Consultant
£80000 - £90000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentEngland
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AI Consultant
Salary
£75,000-£90,000
Location + work pattern
Offices in the north and south of the UK | Hybrid working (3 days per week in the office)
THE COMPANY
This organisation operates as a major UK Credit company supporting businesses across financial services and other consumer-focused sectors to make more informed decisions. Data, analytics and modelling sit at the core of what they do, with a strong focus on responsible and innovative use of advanced analytics.
They are continuing to grow a specialist AI capability within their wider Data & Analytics function to develop next-generation solutions.
THE ROLE
This is a senior consultant-level role within a dedicated AI Lab, focused on applying AI and advanced modelling techniques to real-world client and product challenges. You will work on a broad range of projects, combining hands-on model development with research and innovation.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in:
- Developing and enhancing AI and machine learning models to support lending and credit decisioning.
- Applying techniques such as scorecards, ML models and emerging AI approaches, including LLMs.
- Researching and prototyping new AI-driven solutions for business and product use cases.
- Working closely with data, analytics and stakeholder teams to translate problems into analytical solutions.
- Communicating complex analytical outputs clearly to non-technical audiences.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong background in credit risk modelling within a bank, fintech, or similar regulated lending environment.
- Hands-on experience developing statistical or machine learning models, such as scorecards or predictive models.
- Practical exposure to AI or ML techniques, for example chatbots, LLMs, or advanced ML approaches.
- Solid programming capability in Python and SQL.
- Ability to approach problems analytically and contribute to research-driven projects.
THE BENEFITS
- Opportunity to join a growing AI function working on innovative, high-impact projects.
- Exposure to a wide variety of industries and problem types.
- Strong organisational culture with long-term career development opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
THE PROCESS
- Initial interview covering experience, motivations and technical understanding.
- In-person technical and competency stage, including a presentation, coding exercise and discussion.
- Offer
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest via the apply link on this page.
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Lead Data Scientist
Leeds
£70000 - £90000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLeeds, West Yorkshire
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AI Engineer / Data Scientist
3 days in Leeds or Nottingham
We are working with a leading data and analytics organisation supporting banks and lenders by analysing large‑scale consumer and transactional data.
The Role
You’ll join a specialist AI & Machine Learning team building modern credit risk and decisioning models. The focus is on moving beyond traditional scorecards to advanced ML and AI techniques applied to real‑world lending problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and enhance credit risk and lending models
- Apply ML and AI techniques including predictive modelling, clustering, segmentation, and transformer‑based models
- Modernise legacy models using Python‑based ML approaches
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy models into production
Required Experience
- Background in banking, fintech lending, credit bureaus, or consulting with lending experience
- Hands‑on experience building credit risk models
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience using ML and AI models in regulated environments
Logistics:
- 3 days in office in either Leeds or Nottingham
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