The Data And AI Podcast

This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

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Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

Data Recruitment & AI Talent Solutions

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Welcome to a recruitment journey like no other. At Harnham, we're always interested in finding the right people to join our team.

 

Senior AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$175000 - $225000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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SENIOR AI ENGINEER – AGENTIC SYSTEMS + GENAI

$175K – $210K BASE + EQUITY

HYBRID – SAN FRANCISCO (TUES-THURS)

Are you excited about building production-grade AI systems that power real-world, high-stakes decisions-not just prototypes?

Do you want to work on agentic AI, LLM reasoning, and scalable AI infrastructure at a company with proven product-market fit and strong growth?

THE COMPANY

A fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS company in the compliance and security space, helping organizations build trust at scale.

  • Rapid growth and expanding into enterprise customers
  • Investing heavily in AI-powered product capabilities
  • Building next-gen platform with automation, LLMs, and agentic workflows

THE ROLE

As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll build scalable, production-grade AI systems embedded into core products.

  • Design and deploy LLM-powered systems with reasoning and decision support
  • Build RAG pipelines (retrieval, embeddings, reranking, evaluation)
  • Develop agentic workflows with tools, retrieval, and human-in-the-loop
  • Architect scalable AI systems optimized for latency, cost, and reliability

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • 7+ years SWE + 2+ years building AI/LLM systems in production
  • Strong Python skills (TypeScript a plus)
  • Experience with RAG, vector databases, and LLM evaluation
  • Solid system design + ability to ship end-to-end solutions

THE BENEFITS

  • Competitive base + equity
  • Hybrid in SF
  • Work on cutting-edge AI (agentic systems, RAG, LLMs)
  • High-impact role with strong ownership and visibility

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Data Protection Advisor

Shirebrook

£50000 - £60000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Shirebrook, Derbyshire

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Data Protection Advisor

Up to £60,000

Shirebrook

This is an excellent opportunity to step into a broad, hands-on privacy role where you will have real influence across a large, fast-moving commercial environment.

THE COMPANY

They are a major UK-based retail group with a large store network and a growing international presence. Operating multiple lifestyle, fashion and consumer brands, they work in a fast paced, performance driven environment where strong delivery is recognised.

THE ROLE

You will be the go‑to advisor for privacy matters across the business, owning DSARs, incident handling and hands‑on governance work while supporting product, marketing and commercial teams with practical, business‑friendly guidance.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Act as a primary point of contact for internal teams, offering clear and practical privacy advice.
  • Manage and coordinate data subject rights requests through established processes.
  • Support the investigation and documentation of lower-level data incidents and breaches.
  • Maintain and update privacy governance documentation.
  • Review and advise on data protection clauses within supplier and commercial contracts.
  • Advise on privacy matters to IT, HR, marketing, customer service and wider business units.
  • Contribute to privacy training and awareness activity across the organization.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Data Protection Advisor will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience in data protection, privacy, governance or compliance.
  • Ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear, business friendly guidance.
  • Confident managing DSARs, privacy risks and incident handling.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across teams
  • Experience in retail, large scale commercial environments or regulated industries is beneficial.

BENEFITS

The successful Data Protection Advisor will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary up to £60,000 – depending on experience
  • 20 days holiday, discounted gym membership, cycle scheme and other benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page

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HR Data Architect (Contract)

London

£600 - £630

+ Data Engineering

Contract
London

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The Company

We’re working with a globally recognised organisation undergoing a major HR transformation programme. This is a high-impact project within a well-established data function, where multiple hires have already been successfully placed.

You’ll be joining a growing team focused on modernising HR data architecture and delivering key data products that will shape business decision-making.


The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Data Architect with HR data experience to play a key role in a large-scale transformation programme.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, including another project lead, to design and implement scalable data solutions, bringing together legacy Oracle systems with modern cloud-based platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and developing data models to support HR data transformation
  • Leading on data ingestion and architecture, ensuring smooth integration across systems
  • Supporting the transition from traditional ETL processes to modern data engineering practices
  • Working closely with Oracle teams to understand existing data structures
  • Ensuring alignment between architectural design and engineering delivery
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to understand reporting and data usage across insight teams
  • Delivering 6 key data products by September, enabling downstream ETL processes

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience as a Data Architect within complex environments
  • Proven experience working with HR data
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and Snowflake
  • Experience working with Oracle-based systems
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Ability to bridge the gap between architecture and engineering teams

The Team

You’ll join a tight-knit team of:

  • 2 Data Engineers
  • 1 Business Analyst

Alongside wider internal data and Oracle teams.


Interview Process

  • 1-stage interview (1 hour) with 2 technical team members

Additional Details

  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Contract Length: 6 months (high likelihood of extension into next year)
  • Day Rate: £630 per day
  • Notice Period: Ideally 2 weeks (up to 4 weeks considered)

Why Apply?

  • High-impact role in a major transformation programme
  • Opportunity to shape modern data architecture within HR
  • Work with cutting-edge tools including Snowflake & AWS
  • Strong likelihood of contract extension

If this sounds like a good fit, apply now or reach out for more details.

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Senior AI/ML Engineer

London

£90000 - £115000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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Senior AI (ML) Engineer

Remote, UK

The Company

They are a well-funded technology company providing advanced analytics and dashboards to users across the digital asset and crypto ecosystem. Their subscription platform delivers real-time market insight and on-chain intelligence to traders, investors and data-driven organisations. With data and AI at the core of their product, they are scaling quickly and investing heavily in their engineering and AI capabilities. You will join a collaborative, fully remote team that values transparency, curiosity and speed of execution.

The Role

You will sit in a small, focused AI team and work closely with engineering to design, build and productionise new AI features across the platform.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing, training and deploying AI and ML models on complex, large-scale data.
  • Building GenAI solutions using techniques such as RAG and frameworks like LangChain and related tooling.
  • Working full-stack across data ingestion, feature engineering, modelling and serving.
  • Combining modern GenAI approaches with classical machine learning techniques to improve product performance.
  • Collaborating with product and engineering teams to integrate models into user-facing features.
  • Monitoring and optimising models in production, ensuring reliability, scalability and quality.

Your Skills And Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as an AI, ML or Machine Learning Engineer working on end-to-end solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI, including RAG and tools such as LangChain or similar frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working with a modern cloud environment, ideally GCP.
  • Confidence working across the data lifecycle, including aspects of data engineering.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Genuine interest in crypto and digital assets, with readiness to learn domain-specific tools such as wallet and blockchain analytics.

What They Offer

  • Fully remote working within the UK, with flexibility and autonomy.
  • A modern tech stack and the opportunity to work with the latest AI tools and techniques.
  • A culture that values experimentation, learning and impact, with clear opportunities for progression as the AI function grows.

How To Apply

If you are interested in this Senior AI (ML) Engineer role, please apply with your CV.

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Principal Data Scientist

London

£100000 - £125000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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Lead Data Scientist

London

If you’re a hands-on Data Science / AI specialist who loves solving real operational problems, this role puts you right at the heart of client delivery. You’ll shape the problems, design and build the solutions, and see your models deployed into live environments – not parked as endless POCs.

THE COMPANY

This fast-growing consulting firm helps organisations across the public sector, defence and commercial markets deliver measurable improvements in performance through data, AI and digital solutions. They are building a modern AI & Digital capability that sits at the front of transformation programmes, working shoulder-to-shoulder with clients on their toughest operational challenges.

THE ROLE

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will blend hands-on technical work with consulting, stakeholder management and practice-building.

  • Identifying high-impact Data Science, Machine Learning, AI and simulation opportunities on client engagements
  • Scoping and shaping problems, designing experiments and roadmaps, and then building and deploying models end-to-end
  • Leading technical workstreams, managing small teams and ensuring projects are delivered on time and to a high standard
  • Translating complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical senior stakeholders
  • Coaching and mentoring consultants to build their capabilities in DS/ML/AI and modern analytics

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Strong background in Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, simulation or advanced analytics, with clear examples of end-to-end delivery
  • Proven ability to shape, not just execute: from defining the problem and designing the solution, through to delivery and measurement of impact
  • Consulting capability – comfortable running client workshops, identifying opportunities, influencing senior stakeholders and supporting pitches
  • Evidence of measurable commercial or operational impact (e.g. revenue growth, cost reduction, efficiency gains, service improvement)
  • Hands-on experience building models and turning prototypes into robust, production-ready solutions
  • Experience leading teams or technical workstreams in a project environment
  • UK citizenship (for security clearance purposes) and willingness to travel across the UK 3 days per week, depending on client needs

Nice-to-have experience:

  • Background in a consulting environment or a high-performing in-house DS/AI team
  • Exposure to sectors such as defence, public sector and consumer/retail
  • Familiarity with modern data and AI tooling such as Python, Spark, Databricks, Azure cloud, and Generative AI platforms (experience with specific tools is helpful but not essential)
  • A mix of technical, product and operational experience – comfortable talking both code and business outcome

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Senior Digital Analyst

London

£350 - £400

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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Senior Digital Analyst
London or Leeds, Outside IR35, £350 – 400/day

This is an opportunity to join a busy digital analytics function at a time when they are delivering a high volume of GA4, GTM and Looker Studio projects for a major programme of work. You will step into a team that is looking for someone who can hit the ground running across analytics, reporting and measurement.

The Company
They are a well-established digital agency with strong expertise in data, digital performance and analytics. The team works closely with internal stakeholders across paid media and digital channels. They operate a collaborative environment with a small analytics team of around eight people. While not heavily client facing, there is scope for this to evolve depending on project demands.

The Role and Deliverables
* Build Looker Studio dashboards to track paid media performance across channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Google Ads.
* Work with GA4 data across web and campaigns, identifying key metrics and pulling data into dashboards.
* Implement and refine event tracking using GTM, ensuring accurate data capture for reporting.
* Support internal stakeholders with insights on media spend, leads generated and digital performance trends.

Your Skills and Experience
* Strong hands-on experience with GA4 data across web and campaign measurement.
* Confident using GTM for event tracking, validation and troubleshooting.
* Solid capability in Looker Studio, including building dashboards and blending data.
* Familiarity with social listening tools such as Brandwatch is a nice to have.
* Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders.

How to Apply
If this freelance project matches your experience, please get in touch to discuss the next steps.

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Power BI Developer

Leicester

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Leicester, Leicestershire

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POWER BI DEVELOPER

Up to £50,000 + BENEFITS

HYBRID – Leicestershire

I am looking for a Power BI Developer to join a finance-focused data team. You’ll be at the heart of turning data into insights across four business-critical finance areas, helping shape decision-making and drive self-service analytics.

THE COMPANY:

This business is moving toward a modern Gold Standard Medallion Architecture, with a focus on empowering teams through self-service analytics and scalable reporting. The data team is central to how finance operates, and your dashboards will have real visibility and impact across the business.

THE ROLE:

A Power BI Developer will need to:

  • Collaborate with SQL engineers to design and deliver Power BI dashboards
  • Partner with finance stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver tailored reporting
  • Build engaging visualisations that use data storytelling to influence decisions
  • Drive the adoption of self-service analytics and reduce reliance on ad hoc queries

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Power BI Developer will have the following:

  • Power BI experience (end-to-end dashboard development)
  • ETL experience
  • DAX experience
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £50,000, depending on experience. On top of this, there are excellent benefits and the chance to be part of a transformational data journey.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Power BI Developer

Leeds

£30000 - £35000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Are you a Power BI Developer who genuinely cares about building beautiful, intuitive, high‑impact dashboards? I’m hiring for a Power BI specialist at a major multi‑brand group with a centralised data function that works across digital, creative, technology, and customer‑facing teams. This is a role for someone who lives and breathes Power BI – modelling, DAX, UX, and storytelling.

You’ll work across a wide range of business areas and stakeholders, translating ambiguous briefs into real, meaningful dashboards that teams actually use. It’s a highly visible, design‑centric role where quality really matters.


What you’ll be doing

  • Designing and building Power BI dashboards to an exceptional standard of visual design and user experience.
  • Developing robust data models using star schema principles, setting up relationships, hierarchies, and optimised structures.
  • Writing efficient, clean DAX – including complex measures and time intelligence.
  • Using Power Query (M) to build transformations and shape data inside Power BI.
  • Establishing and managing consistent design systems, templates, and themes across reports.
  • Leading scoping conversations to translate unclear or ambitious requests into clear dashboard requirements.
  • Producing wireframes and mock‑ups to align design direction prior to build.
  • Auditing and improving existing reports for performance, maintainability, and UX.
  • Documenting models and dashboards clearly for long‑term maintainability.
  • Managing deployments, workspaces, and pipelines in Power BI Service.

What you bring

Must‑haves:

  • Strong, demonstrable Power BI development experience – you’ll need a portfolio or examples of your work.
  • Deep understanding of data modelling, star schema, relationships, and model optimisation.
  • Advanced DAX (complex measures, performance optimisation).
  • Strong Power Query (M) capabilities.
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable narratives through dashboard structure and design.
  • Confidence in client‑facing or stakeholder‑facing conversations, scoping requirements, and pushing back constructively.
  • Experience building maintainable, scalable, and high‑quality Power BI solutions.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Tableau or Qlik.
  • Familiarity with DAX Studio or Tabular Editor.
  • Understanding of accessibility best practice in dashboard design.

Note:
The business does not require marketing analytics experience for this version of the role – the priority is powerful Power BI development and design expertise, not domain experience.


Why this role

  • Work with a highly respected centralised data team supporting multiple brands and functions.
  • Big focus on design quality – the team genuinely cares about UX, storytelling, and building dashboards people love.
  • Strong support from senior leaders and exposure to high‑profile projects across the wider organisation.
  • Join during a period of growth with opportunities for progression and technical development.

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