LEEDS DATA & AI RECRUITMENT
OVERVIEW
Businesses in Leeds and across West Yorkshire trust Harnham for their specialist Data and AI recruitment.
Here at Harnham, our team of Data & AI expert recruiters means if you’re job hunting for a Data & AI job in Leeds there’s no one more well-equipped to assist you. Additionally, any company that needs a Data and AI role filled can rely on us to help so contact our Leeds team now.
As a job hunter, you need a recruiter that spends the time getting to know and understand your skills and goals on an in-depth level and rest assured Harnham will do just that so you can find the right fit for you. So, whether you want a job as an AI Architect, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Architect or Business Analyst Harnham can help you.
Likewise, any company searching for that perfect candidate can use our Data & AI industry knowledge to get the best advice and support for finding a candidate. We'll also make sure to provide the best candidates we have that are specialised in that role.
So, whether you’d like to make a career step in Leeds or hire the next member of your team Harnham can support you.
DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING
HOW WE DO IT
Just like the Data & AI professionals we place, Harnham use tried and tested models in our recruitment processes.
By gaining valuable market knowledge across a range of industries and regions, Harnham is able to provide a service which is second to none within our marketplace.
We have seen unprecedented growth in our specialist sector and always have a wide range of vacancies at both junior and senior levels including AI jobs, Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, France, United States, and the Netherlands
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER LEEDS DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AGENCIES?Â
We’re passionate about helping the people of Leeds to achieve their career goals and are proud to be part of the city’s thriving Data and AI industry.Â
We have a deep understanding of the Data and AI sector, and our team in Leeds is made up of experienced consultants who have worked in this sector for many years.
Our consultants have developed relationships with a wide range of employers in Leeds, and we have access to exclusive roles and opportunities that other agencies may not have.
We also provide a tailored approach to recruitment, so we can find the best fit for both employers and job seekers.
Our Leeds and West Yorkshire recruitment team is headed up by experienced Senior Manager Jamie Smith
JOBS
LATEST LEEDS
DATA & AI JOBS
Harnham are a specialist Data & AI Recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.
Product Data Scientist
Sheffield
£50000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSheffield, South Yorkshire
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Product Data Scientist
Hybrid – Sheffield (1x day per week)
£50,000 – £60,000
Are you a commercially minded Product Data Scientist who enjoys turning complex data into actionable insights? This is an opportunity to join a growing technology-led organisation where data plays a central role in shaping product strategy, improving customer outcomes, and driving business growth. You’ll have the chance to work across analytics, machine learning, customer journey analysis, and stakeholder engagement while influencing key business decisions.
The Company
They are a fast-growing, data-driven organisation that leverages technology to deliver impactful solutions to its customers. With a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement, they are investing heavily in their data capabilities to support future growth. Their collaborative environment brings together product, commercial, operational, and technical teams to make better decisions through data. As they continue to scale, they are looking for a Product Data Scientist to help unlock deeper insights and create measurable business value.
The Role
You will:
- Analyse customer and user journeys to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for optimisation.
- Perform exploratory data analysis to understand product usage, engagement, and conversion behaviour.
- Develop predictive models, including churn prediction, engagement scoring, demand forecasting, and propensity modelling.
- Build customer segments and behavioural cohorts to support product, marketing, and customer success initiatives.
- Translate business questions into structured analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
- Partner closely with engineering and data teams to define metrics and improve data models.
- Design and maintain dashboards, reports, and KPI frameworks for business stakeholders.
- Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support the adoption of data-driven decision making across the organisation
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist, Product Analyst, or similar analytics professional.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based data warehouse environments.
- Strong Python or R capabilities for data analysis, statistical modelling, and machine learning.
- Experience building predictive models and applying analytical techniques to solve business problems.
- Understanding of customer journey analysis, funnel optimisation, retention analysis, and customer lifetime value metrics.
- Experience creating dashboards and visualisations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders, gather requirements, and translate business needs into analytical solutions.
- Experience working with modern data platforms and analytics engineering environments is beneficial.
What They Offer
- Salary of £50,000 – £60,000.
- Hybrid working arrangement based in Sheffield.
- Opportunity to influence product and business strategy through data.
- Exposure to modern technologies including Snowflake, dbt, Python, and leading BI tools.
- A collaborative environment with strong cross-functional partnership.
- Clear opportunities for professional development and career progression as the data function continues to grow.
How to Apply
Register your interest today to learn more about this Product Data Scientist opportunity in Sheffield and discuss how your experience aligns with the role.
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Data Scientist
London
£500 - £560
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Contract Data Scientist
London | Outside IR35 £500-560 per day| 2-months
This is an opportunity to join a specialist analytics consultancy on a high-impact insurance analytics project. You’ll play a key role in developing predictive models and customer segmentation frameworks that directly support commercial decision-making, working with rich first-party customer and transactional data from day one.
The Company
They are a specialist analytics consultancy that delivers advanced data science and predictive modelling solutions for enterprise clients. Their technology is deployed within client environments, helping organisations understand customer behaviour, forecast future outcomes, and identify opportunities for growth. They combine data science, analytics, and commercial insight to solve complex business challenges across customer-focused industries.
The Role and Deliverables
- Build customer segmentation and clustering models to identify meaningful customer groups.
- Develop propensity models and predictive analytics solutions to support business decision-making.
- Forecast customer behaviour and future customer value using advanced modelling techniques.
- Analyse motor and home insurance customer journeys, quote behaviour, and conversion patterns.
- Design a core segmentation framework with multiple supporting sub-segmentations.
- Package and document models for deployment and handover to engineering teams.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience delivering customer segmentation and clustering projects using unsupervised learning techniques.
- Demonstrated capability in propensity modelling, predictive modelling, and forecasting.
- Strong Python and SQL skills for data preparation, analysis, and model development.
- Experience working within Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric environments.
- Comfortable developing solutions in notebook-based analytics environments.
- Experience within insurance, customer analytics, pricing analytics, retention, acquisition, churn modelling, customer lifetime value, or quote conversion analysis.
- Ability to work autonomously and quickly contribute within a fast-paced contract engagement.
How to Apply
If you have strong experience in customer analytics, predictive modelling, and insurance data science, apply today to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.
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Senior Data Scientist – Consulting
London
£75000 - £85000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior Data Scientist
London | £75,000 – £85,000
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Data Scientist to join a growing technology business at a key stage of its journey. You’ll work on high-impact machine learning projects, help shape analytical best practice, and see your work directly influence product development and client outcomes.
The Company
They are a data-driven SaaS business that helps organisations make better commercial decisions through advanced analytics and machine learning. Their products support businesses across a variety of consumer-focused sectors, transforming complex datasets into practical insights. With an expanding client base and ambitious growth plans, they are continuing to invest in their Data Science capability and product innovation.
The Role
- Build and deploy machine learning models across forecasting, customer segmentation, and propensity modelling
- Own projects across the full model lifecycle, from data exploration and feature engineering through to deployment and monitoring
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and commercial teams to deliver scalable analytical solutions
- Translate complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders
- Support the development of data science standards, validation frameworks, and best practices
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to a collaborative data science culture
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in Data Science and Machine Learning
- Advanced Python and SQL skills with experience building production-ready models
- Expertise across forecasting, predictive modelling, customer segmentation, and classification techniques
- Experience working with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, or similar to improve productivity and code quality
- Understanding of LLM applications, prompt engineering, and practical AI use cases within analytics workflows
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate technical outputs into clear business recommendations
How to Apply
If you’re interested in this Senior Data Scientist opportunity, please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
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Data Scientist (Contract)
London
£500 - £550
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Contract Data Scientist
Outside IR35
£500 – £550 Per Day
2 Month Duration
2 Days In London Office
The Company
They are a specialist technology business that develops advanced analytics solutions deployed within clients’ secure environments. Their platform helps organisations understand customer behaviour, identify value drivers, and build predictive capabilities using transactional and event data. They work closely with enterprise clients on complex, data-led challenges, combining product innovation with practical delivery.
The Role and Deliverables
- Build customer segmentation, propensity, and forecasting models using large-scale customer datasets.
- Lead clustering and segmentation analysis, with a particular focus on delivering a core segmentation and supporting sub-segmentations.
- Develop models relating to motor and home insurance quote behaviour and customer decision-making.
- Work from defined business requirements and data science briefs to deliver production-ready modelling outputs.
- Package models and supporting assets for handover to deployment and engineering teams.
- Operate as an experienced contractor, delivering value quickly with minimal onboarding.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience building customer segmentation and clustering solutions.
- Proven capability in propensity modelling and predictive analytics.
- Experience developing data science solutions within notebook-based environments.
- Practical experience using Microsoft Fabric and/or Databricks notebooks.
- Ability to build and deploy scalable modelling solutions across large datasets.
- Understanding of insurance customer behaviour, ideally within motor or home insurance.
- Comfortable working independently and delivering outcomes in fast-paced project environments.
How to Apply
If you have strong experience in customer segmentation, propensity modelling, and modern cloud-based data science environments, apply today to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.
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Contract Data Scientist
London
£500 - £560
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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The Opportunity
We’re supporting a specialist data and analytics company that develops and licenses a proprietary customer intelligence platform used by enterprise clients. Their platform sits within client environments and leverages first-party customer data, transactions and behavioural events to identify where value is created, forecast future outcomes and drive customer growth through advanced analytics.
They are looking for an experienced Contract Data Scientist to join a critical insurance-focused project and take ownership of model development from day one.
The Project
Working within the insurance sector, you’ll build scalable customer analytics solutions focused on:
- Customer segmentation and clustering
- Propensity modelling
- Forecasting models
- Insurance customer behaviour analysis
- Large-scale model development and delivery
A key deliverable will be the creation of a primary customer segmentation framework, including multiple sub-segmentations, alongside propensity models that support commercial decision-making.
The project specifically focuses on motor and home insurance quote behaviour, so experience understanding insurance products, quote journeys and customer purchasing behaviour is essential.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Developing customer segmentation and clustering models
- Building propensity and predictive models
- Creating forecasting solutions using customer and transactional data
- Working within notebook-based analytics environments
- Packaging models for deployment and handing over to engineering teams
- Collaborating closely with Product, Data Science and Engineering leadership
Essential Skills
- Strong commercial Data Science experience
- Proven background delivering segmentation and clustering projects
- Hands-on propensity modelling experience
- Advanced Python
- Experience working in Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric
- Experience developing models within notebook environments
- Ability to quickly understand business problems and deliver at pace
- Insurance sector experience
Highly Desirable
- Experience within motor or home insurance
- Understanding of insurance quote journeys and buying behaviour
- Experience delivering customer analytics projects using first-party customer data
- Previous contractor experience in fast-paced delivery environments
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Applied Data Scientist – Fraud Prevention
London
£55000 - £65000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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APPLIED DATA SCIENTIST, FRAUD PREVENTION
£55,000 – £65,000
LONDON (HYBRID)
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing FinTech with an innovative approach to lending. You’ll play a key role in building and improving fraud prevention capabilities, working on high-impact machine learning projects that directly influence customer outcomes, risk strategy, and business performance.
THE COMPANY
Our client is a forward-thinking FinTech with a people-focused culture that prioritises teamwork and continuous development. Data is at the heart of their decision-making, and they are continuing to invest in advanced analytics to support growth and innovation. This role sits within a collaborative data science team where you will have the opportunity to make a tangible impact from day one.
THE ROLE
* Develop and deploy fraud detection, identity verification, and fraud scoring models
* Analyse large and complex datasets to identify fraud trends, risks, and opportunities
* Evaluate new data sources, machine learning techniques, and fraud prevention tools
* Build monitoring and reporting solutions to track model and fraud performance
* Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Data teams to deliver business-critical initiatives
* Help shape the future direction of fraud analytics across the organisation
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Strong commercial experience in fraud analytics, fraud prevention, or financial crime
* Hands-on experience developing machine learning models using Python
* Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities
* Knowledge of statistical modelling and predictive analytics techniques
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
* Experience within fintech, lending, or financial services would be beneficial
SALARY AND BENEFITS
* £55,000 – £65,000 base salary depending on experience
* Annual bonus scheme
* Contributory pension
* Private healthcare
* Hybrid working model – 2 days in office
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV through the ‘Apply’ link.
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I've been a Senior Data Engineer for about 4-5 years and Harnham is one of the best recruitment agencies I worked with. There was a time when my offer fell through and the recruiter I was working with at Harnham jumped in to the rescue and scheduled interviews for me within a couple of days. Really good agency and some great people.
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Client – Data Direction – Broadcast Media
I have worked with Harnham for over 2 years now as our main Analytics Recruiter partner and I am very pleased with the overall service and the people we have hired via Harnham. Harnham’s team is very good at understanding our recruitment needs and always come back with relevant and well scanned CVs, which saves me precious time.
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Client – Director of Customer Data Science – Apparel
The team at Harnham have been outstanding in helping our company build a market-leading data science team. Harnham’s communication is great, and the recruiter’s take a consultative approach that’s really focused on provided value for both their clients and their candidates. They provide strong candidates that help us fill our roles with high achievers who are also a great fit for our culture.
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I’ve had a great experience with Harnham. The recruiter provided great advice and ensured that I understood everything, and even followed up with me after I started my new role to see how I was settling in. I would recommend Harnham as a great recruitment company for anyone looking for a role in data and analytics.
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