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To stay ahead of the competition, companies in Manchester and the North West must continuously look for new and innovative ways to extract insights from the large volumes of data they acquire.
Harnham's Manchester Data Recruitment Team is currently partnering with some of the industry’s most exciting data-driven organisations and is at the forefront of the Data Science recruitment space.
Our aptitude for matching the best talent in the North West with the best companies is second to none. If you’re looking for your next challenge or need to make a hire in the Data & Analytics industry then get in touch with our recruitment team below.
DATA & ANALYTICS RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING
HOW WE DO IT
Just like the Data & Analytics 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 level including Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, Germany, France, United States, and the Netherlands


WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER MANCHESTER DATA RECRUITMENT AGENCIES?
Feedback shows it’s our relationship-building and industry knowledge.
Harnham is the best data recruitment company in Manchester because our consultants have a deep understanding of the data analytics industry, with a team of specialist consultants who are highly knowledgeable in their field.
We are a trusted and long-term partner for all our customers in the North West, so if you need to recruit or are looking for your next opportunity, contact us to find out how you can benefit from partnering with the Harnham Manchester data recruitment team.
Our Manchester and Northern UK recruitment team is headed up by experienced Senior Manager Jamie Smith, who was born and raised in the North West region.Â
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Harnham are a specialist Data & Analytics recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.

Data Engineer
£35000 - £45000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Data Engineer
Up to £45,000 per annum
Location – Remote – once a month in the office
(Please note this role does not offer sponsorship)
If you are a data engineer and looking for a role that gives you fantastic experience and exposure to a wide variety of data whilst working in a relaxed and free culture then this is the role for you!
The Company
Distributor of tools and equipment who are in the process of a digital migration, having moved over to Power BI, built a data warehouse, and begun using GitLab. Data has become embedded in the business and now they are looking to begin preparing for a large transformation project going from on-prem to the cloud.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Overseeing the preparation for moving from on-prem to off-prem data
- Developing and maintaining ETL pipelines
- Understanding data requirements
- Lots of products and solutions – this person needs to come in discuss what has worked previously and build solutions to their problems
Skills
- SQL
- Oracle
- Azure
Benefits
- Salary up to £45,000

CRO Developer
£50000 - £60000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
CRO DEVELOPER
£50,000-£60,000 + BENEFITS
FULLY REMOTE
This CRO Developer position will give you the opportunity to own the end-to-end CRO function for an international Digital Experience Consultancy looking to grow out its UK team.
THE COMPANY:
The company you will be working for is a leading specialist digital analytics consultancy that works with clients and internal teams to execute high-standard web analytics and optimisation. This team in particular specialises in the Adobe stack.
THE ROLE:
As a CRO Developer you will be part of the optimisation team looking at a variety of well-known brands across multiple sectors and will need to:
- Be a primary point of contact.
- Be confident in building A/B tests
- Experienced in Adobe Recommendations
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful CRO Developer will have the following skills and experience:
- Proven commercial experience in Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target.
- Commercial experience in building A/B testing tools.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £60,000. On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

Lead Python Developer
£95000 - £105000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Lead Software Engineer (Python)
London – Hybrid
Up to £100,000 + 15% Bonus
OVERVIEW
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Lead software engineer to join a globally known company that operates in a variety of industries. Being in this software engineering team within a massive organization will still allow you to have complete autonomy over your own work as well as be part of a massive greenfield project with many other talented engineers. This role will also allow you to work very closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers whilst remaining solely focused on software engineering. If this sounds interesting, then this could be the role for you!
THE ROLE
In this lead engineering role, you will:
· Creating training and scoring pipelines on GCP
· Productionising model training and scoring code from data scientists’ notebooks
· Optimising pipelines to ensure they are scalable and performant
· Developing and supporting APIs that serve model outputs
· Writing robust unit and integration tests
· Helping to architect systems to ensure they are re-usable and extensible
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
To qualify for these python engineering roles you must have:
· Expert programming in python
· Commercial cloud experience
· Commercial experience with Docker
SALARY
In this role, you could earn up to £100,000 + 15% Bonus + Many more benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please submit your details using the Apply button on this page. Or for more information regarding other roles please contact Michael Bellchambers at Harnham.
Product Manager – Web
£35000 - £45000
+ Marketing & Insight
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
WEB PRODUCT MANAGER
UK REMOTE
£45,000 + BENEFITS
Skilled at managing websites as a product for a business?
Keen to share your knowledge with a business to help them improve their customer offerings?
This could be your next exciting step!
THE COMPANY:
This is a leading company for leisure activities, holidays and entertainment. With household names as part of their brand, they’re now looking to revamp their website bookings to attract more customers and ensure they get the best break possible.
WHAT WILL YOU GET TO DO?
In this role, you will be joining the Optimisation team as well as reporting to the Technical Lead. You will get to work on:
- Optimising the booking engines on the website specifically for shorter term breaks
- Creating and rolling out the product roadmap for making improvements or rolling out new features and products
- Optimising the website to offer best user experience as well as convert more visitors to guests
- Improving pricing models alongside the Pricing team
- Conducting a/b tests to optimise performance and development of features
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN YOU
- Previous experience across product management, product development, or technical project management
- Previously worked on a website as a product, or be a website wizard!
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Worked on product roadmapping and optimisation
- Tech: preferably used Google Analytics and an a/b testing tool
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Base salary of £45,000
- Bonus
- Remote working from the UK – you can head to the London HQ if you wish, or the usual requirement would be once a quarter
- Get to revamp the customer experience for the biggest leisure entertainment provider in the UK!
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Alanah Chambers via the Apply link on this page.
Please note:
- this role is only available to candidates who can give evidence of full right to work in the UK
- the company is unable to provide sponsorship now or in future
- this role is to be UK-based
- due to volume of response, I am not able to respond to every applicant. If you do not hear back within 7 days, please take it as you have not been successful at this time
This role not the one for you? I have roles across Marketing & Customer Insight all over the north and midlands of England, so please get in touch with me to discuss other roles I’m covering to find your perfect next step!

Data Engineer – Mobile Service Provider
£50000 - £85000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Data Engineer
Fully Remote
Up to £85, 000
Permanent
A major telecommunications company is looking for a Data Engineer to join them and assist with their migration to AWS.
The Company
An exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer, or an experienced Data Engineer looking for their next career step, has opened up in a major telecommunications company. This B-Corp company provides their own network, mobile phones, e-commerce business, and portal to consumers.
As a Senior Data Analyst, you’ll be ingesting rich data sets into a Snowflake data warehouse and supporting product teams to take on the data engineering tech stack, as well as liaising with the Business Intelligence and Data Science teams to generate requirements and workflows.
The Role and Responsibilities
- Develop an AWS infrastructure to commence migration to AWS
- Implement event-driven architecture (Kafka)
- Develop ETL Pipelines
Your Skills and Experience
- Hands-on experience with Java (essential)
- Experience with event-driven applications and test-driven development (essential)
- Experience with AWS/GCP (desirable)
- Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Jenkins (desirable)
Benefits
- Up to £85, 000 salary with £5000 car bonus
- Fully remote work
- Culture-driven company with a commitment to sustainable practices

Senior Software Engineer (Python)
£90000 - £95000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Senior Python Developer
Manchester
Up to £95,000
Python, GCP, TDD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
The Company
This leading telecom company is looking for a passionate Senior Software engineer to join their team. They have expanded to help them with their exciting greenfield projects and now need some more support. They are focused on digital transformation and building out progressive data products.
The Role
As a senior developer in this role, you will sit within the data science sector. If you have an interest in this industry, then this role is for you! The role will be based on their work and trying to ensure they can complete their work.
Your other responsibilities will be:
- Building models for data scientists use
- Using GCP to produce pipelines
- Developing API’s and forming integration test
- Rearchitecting systems to help maintain systems and make them re-usable
- Leading a team to complete targets,
- Conducting performance reviews
- Helping build individual performance plans.
Skill/Experience
The ideal candidate will have expertise in Python, Docker, Kubernetes and SQL. If you have experience working with systems designs and writing APIS then this is the ideal roll for you. Its also a bonus to have knowledge in cloud computing best practices.
Salary/Benefits
- You will take home a salary of Up To £95,000 + 10% Bonus.
- You can enjoy 27 days holiday.
- They also offer a flexible benefits allowance where you can pick and choose(Examples include-Car Scheme, Matched Pension, Health/Life Insurance and more)
- 1 day a month in an Office near your(London, Manchester, Birmingham)
Interview Process
Stage 1-30 Min Chat with HM
Stage 2-90 min competency/technical coding questions.
Digital Product Manager
£40000 - £44500
+ Marketing & Insight
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER
REMOTE
£45,000
This role offers the chance for an experienced digital product manager to work for an exciting hospitality and tourism company.
THE COMPANY
The company own several popular attractions in the UK, and partner with hotels as well as having their own accommodation. They have launched several new programs this year and are recruiting to become more data driven.
THE ROLE
The day to day of the role will involve:
- Working with the Product Manager to work on short breaks programs
- Carry out AB tests
- Working with the ecommerce team to help develop roadmaps for CRM and manage different features
- Help improve CX
- Reporting to the Head of Optimisation
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
You will need:
- Product Manager or Junior Digital Product Manager Background ideally
- Strong stakeholder skills
- AB testing experience
- Strong user of Google Analytics
- Experience with either Azure, Power BI or Salesforce
- A commercial mindset
BENEFITS
- Discounts on visits
- Fully remote working
- Growth opportunities
HOW TO APPLY
Send your application to Harry Robertson by clicking the link

Digital Insight Analyst
£35000 - £40000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Digital Insight Analyst
Remote within the UK
£35,000 to £40,000
Company
A start-up agency is looking to expand its borders, it has established large pharma clients as well as marketing agencies and retail businesses. It is looking at becoming the leader in the field and has made a great start to that.
The company is now looking to make its first hire into the business and shape and mold someone into an industry leader in digital analytics just like the other people in the business
Role
- This opportunity provides flexibility to really make the role your own. With plans to increase the Digital Analytics capabilities at this company, you will be likely working closely with clients with their Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics set-up and reporting, alongside optimising the online customer journey.
- Another element of the role will be looking at marketing and campaigns and evaluating their effectiveness to again give the clients a way of improving and getting more bang for their buck.
Skills
The successful applicant will have extensive experience with:
- Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics.
- Experience working in an agency or stakeholder communication-heavy position.
- Desire to learn and up-skill across all breadths of analytics.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Daniel Abbasi via the apply link on this page or send your CV

CRO Developer
£50000 - £60000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
CRO DEVELOPER
£50,000-£60,000 + BENEFITS
FULLY REMOTE
This CRO Developer position will give you the opportunity to own the end-to-end CRO function for an international Digital Experience Consultancy looking to grow out its UK team.
THE COMPANY:
The company you will be working for is a leading specialist digital analytics consultancy that works with clients and internal teams to execute high-standard web analytics and optimisation. This team in particular specialises in the Adobe stack.
THE ROLE:
As a CRO Developer you will be part of the optimisation team looking at a variety of well-known brands across multiple sectors and will need to:
- Be a primary point of contact.
- Be confident in building A/B tests
- Experienced in Adobe Recommendations
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful CRO Developer will have the following skills and experience:
- Proven commercial experience in Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target.
- Commercial experience in building A/B testing tools.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £60,000. On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

Data Engineer
£55000 - £65000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Data Engineer
Up to £65,000 per annum
Location – Hybrid – 2 days a week in an office based in Gaydon
***URGENT*** Data Engineer sought for a well-established and exciting multi-product company with ambitious growth plans!
The Company
This company is currently in the midst of a massive digital transformation. They are looking to expand their analytics capabilities in a big way this year and thus are hiring for Data Engineers to help achieve this. They currently operate within GCP and use Python.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining data pipelines and looking at how best to optimize them
- Unit testing
- Understand the commercial implications of your work and work autonomously
- Creating solutions with product problems and looking at how best to solve it
Skills
- SQL (ESSENTIAL)
- Python (ESSENTIAL)
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Benefits
- Up to £65,000 per annum
- Flexible working

AWS Data Engineer (Senior) – Banking
£70000 - £140000
+ Data & Technology
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
SRE Data Engineer
Hybrid – 1-3x per month in office – Manchester, Edinburgh
Up to £140, 000
Permanent
An opportunity for a Senior/Lead Data Engineer has opened up at a major bank, who is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to oversee and implement their AWS migration.
The Company
The company is a major commercial and retail bank. Currently, their data is being held on-premises, and as of last year, they have began a transformation journey in AWS.
This position is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and senior AWS data engineer to take the next step in their career in a very hands-on role.
The Role and Responsibilities
- Preparing platform, monitor critical aspects, and ensure data is implemented into the system
- AWS cloud engineering and architecture; reviewing architecture, discovering issues and recovering
- Implementing GitLabs
- Working with stakeholders and senior managers of the business area and tech world
Your Skills and Experience
- Experience working with AWS (essential)
- Experience with DevOps tools and technologies
- ETL pipelining and Python experience
- Stakeholder management experience
Benefits
- Up to £140, 000 salary with 20% flex benefits
- 30 days holiday
- Working with huge data sets
- Scope for career progression

Senior Fraud Analyst
£40000 - £50000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
Senior Fraud Analyst
Manchester
Up to £50,000
Hybrid
The Company
A Top UK retail company that is looking to bring in a Senior Fraud Analyst with a technical background to help protect the company against fraud, creating and updating fraud models to prevent fraud.
The Role
As a Senior Fraud Analyst, you will be working within a team to:
- Developing fraud detection models
- Improving and tuning fraud detection models
- Developing scorecards for customer profiles
- Developing in-house fraud tools/models using SQL, SAS, and/or Python
- Helping support for efficient fraud analysis
- Mentoring junior members of the team
Your skills and experience
For you to be successful as a Senior Fraud Analyst, you will need:
- Strong programming experience using SQL, SAS, and/or Python
- Experience using visualization tools
- Experience as a fraud analyst
- Excellent communication skills
- An analytic mindset
- A numeric degree from a Top University
Benefits
£50,000 + benefits package
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Sean Tunley via the apply link below.

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