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.

 

Business Intelligence Analyst

£50000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
England

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Business Intelligence Analyst

£50,000 – £55,000

Sheffield – 1x day per month in the office.

This is an opportunity to join a growing digital business at a pivotal point in its data journey. They are investing in their analytics capability and are looking for a Data Analyst who enjoys building structure, partnering with stakeholders, and delivering insights that directly shape commercial decision making.

The Company

They are a technology-led, consumer-focused platform operating a two-sided marketplace model. Data plays an increasingly central role in how they understand customers, optimise performance, and drive sustainable growth. With a collaborative culture and a relatively small, agile team, you will have real influence over how analytics is used across the organisation.

The Role

  • Build and maintain robust data models using SQL, including well-structured analytical schemas
  • Develop and own dashboards and reporting within modern BI tools
  • Translate commercial and operational questions into clear, actionable insights
  • Partner closely with non-technical stakeholders to define KPIs and reporting requirements
  • Carry out exploratory and ad hoc analysis to uncover trends, risks, and opportunities
  • Help move the business away from manual reporting towards scalable, reliable analytics
  • Collaborate with data engineering to support the evolution of the data stack and self-serve analytics capability

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as a Data Analyst or in a similar analytical role
  • Advanced SQL skills and confidence working with data models
  • Hands-on experience with at least one BI or visualisation tool such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
  • Ability to communicate insights clearly to a non-technical audience
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and taking ownership in a growing analytics function
  • Exposure to modern cloud data environments and transformation tools is beneficial
  • Understanding of marketplace, retention, lifetime value, or cohort analysis is an advantage

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible remote-first working within the UK, with occasional fully expensed team days
  • The chance to shape the foundations of reporting and analytics across the business
  • High visibility role with direct impact on commercial strategy
  • Supportive, collaborative culture with clear opportunities for development and progression

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Senior Platform Engineer

London

£100000 - £150000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
London

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Platform Engineer
London, Hybrid (4 days per week in office)
Up to £160,000 + Equity

This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly scaling AI platform at a pivotal stage of growth. You will take ownership of the cloud and platform foundations, shaping how engineering teams ship reliable, secure, and compliant systems at enterprise scale. The role offers genuine influence, technical depth, and the chance to build infrastructure that underpins a category defining product.

The Company
They are an enterprise AI platform transforming how complex, regulated organisations build and validate client-ready work. Their technology replaces manual, error-prone workflows with automated AI systems used by global teams. Backed by top tier investors and having recently completed a major funding round, they are now scaling their platform and engineering capability to meet growing customer demand.

The Role

  • Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure to support rapid product growth.
  • Own DevOps and platform engineering practices, enabling teams to deploy quickly and safely.
  • Prepare and maintain audit-ready infrastructure aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 expectations.
  • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines across backend, frontend, and data services.
  • Implement observability across logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, etc.
  • Monitor and optimise cloud costs while maintaining high availability and performance.
  • Act as an advocate for operational excellence across the engineering organisation.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, ideally in Azure, with AWS exposure beneficial.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions.
  • Proven capability implementing observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing frameworks.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security best practices, secrets management, and security tooling.
  • Strong networking knowledge across private networking, DNS, load balancers, VPNs, and firewalls.
  • Experience managing production-grade databases and storage solutions.
  • Comfortable automating infrastructure and tooling using Python or Bash.
  • Experience supporting reliability, compliance, and cost efficiency in fast-growing environments.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £160,000 plus meaningful equity.
  • A high-impact role with ownership over core platform infrastructure.
  • Significant technical and personal growth in a fast-moving AI environment.
  • Hybrid working with four days per week in the London office.

How to Apply
Apply now to explore how this Platform Engineer role could be the next defining step in your career.

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Digital Analyst

London

£35000 - £40000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Digital Analyst
London (Hybrid – 2x Days a Week in Office)
£35,000-£40,000

THE COMPANY

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing data function within a global marketing and media group! Acting as the central data hub across a collective of agencies, the team delivers high-impact analytics and measurement solutions to some of the world’s biggest brands; you’ll be part of a small, highly collaborative team with strong visibility across the business, working closely with senior stakeholders and gaining exposure to a wide range of clients and marketing channels.

THE ROLE

This role is ideal for someone with a background in digital or marketing analytics who wants to deepen their technical skillset while maintaining a strong focus on insight delivery. You’ll sit at the intersection of analytics, tracking, and performance, supporting global clients with high-quality data and actionable insight.

Key responsibilities:

  • Analyse website and campaign performance using GA4
  • Build and optimise dashboards in Looker Studio for client reporting
  • Implement and maintain tracking via Google Tag Manager (events, pixels, troubleshooting)
  • Support analytics audits and ensure data quality best practices
  • Monitor digital and paid media performance to identify trends and opportunities
  • Present insights to internal stakeholders across multiple agency teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Hands-on experience with GA4
  • Strong working knowledge of Google Tag Manager (event tracking, implementation)
  • Experience building dashboards in Looker Studio (or similar tools)
  • Background in a digital, media, or performance marketing environment
  • Strong communication skills – confident presenting insights to stakeholders
  • Proactive mindset with a desire to learn and develop

Nice to have:

  • Understanding of paid media metrics (PPC, paid social, display)
  • Exposure to wider MarTech or analytics too

THE BENEFITS

  • £35,000-£40,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior SEO Executive

£30000 - £33000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Derbyshire

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Senior SEO Executive

£30,000-£33,000

Derbyshire (Hybrid)

THE COMPANY

This role sits within a high-growth retail group, offering the chance to work on one of the UK’s largest eCommerce platforms; SEO is a highly visible and well-respected function, playing a key role in driving traffic and revenue across the business!

THE ROLE

You’ll support the SEO Manager in delivering organic performance, with a focus on day-to-day optimisation and execution. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to step up into a more impactful role within a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting SEO strategy execution
  • Making recommendations to improve rankings and performance
  • Conducting keyword research and analysis
  • Carrying out technical SEO audits and resolving issues
  • Optimising site structure, internal linking and on-page content
  • Supporting content creation (category pages, blogs, guides)
  • Assisting with link-building activity
  • Reporting on SEO performance

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong understanding of SEO fundamentals
  • Proactive and able to manage multiple priorities
  • Comfortable working at pace

Tools:

  • Screaming Frog (essential)
  • Google Search Console
  • GA4
  • Botify / Pi Datametrics / SEMrush (nice to have)

THE BENEFITS

  • £30,000-£33,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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SEO Manager

£40000 - £45000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Derbyshire

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SEO Manager

£40,000 – £45,000

Derbyshire (Hybrid)

THE COMPANY

This is an opportunity to join a major UK retail group operating across sports, fashion and lifestyle, with a portfolio of high-profile brands and a rapidly growing eCommerce function! SEO is a business-critical channel here, with strong visibility across the wider organisation, influencing teams across commercial, trading and buying, not just digital marketing; you’ll be joining a fast-paced, high-performance environment with significant investment in digital and access to best-in-class tools and agency support!

THE ROLE

You’ll take ownership of SEO performance for a flagship retail site, driving organic growth across a high-traffic, high-revenue platform. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be expected to hit the ground running, working across technical SEO, content optimisation and strategy delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning SEO performance (rankings, traffic, revenue)
  • Delivering and executing SEO strategy across technical and on-site optimisation
  • Identifying growth opportunities through keyword and performance analysis
  • Managing site health (technical SEO, crawlability, indexing)
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders across multiple business functions
  • Managing agency relationships and output
  • Reporting on performance and KPIs
  • Supporting and developing junior team members

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong SEO experience with ownership of a site or key areas
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
  • Experience across technical and content SEO
  • Strong stakeholder management skills

Tools:

  • Screaming Frog (essential)
  • Google Search Console
  • GA4
  • Botify (nice to have)
  • Pi Datametrics

Background:

  • eCommerce experience preferred
  • Open to strong agency candidates
  • Best suited to someone hands-on and delivery-focused

THE BENEFITS

  • £40,000-£45,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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Lead Digital Analytics Consultant

£70000 - £90000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
England

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Lead Digital Analytics Consultant

Fully Remote in The UK

£70,000-£90,000 + Bonus

The Company

A leading digital analytics consultancy with a full-service offering across insight, implementation, and CRO is seeking a Lead Digital Analytics Consultant for their Adobe practice! The company partners with major brands to deliver measurable value through advanced analytics strategies, implementations, and optimisation programmes. They are expanding into product/app analytics (e.g. Amplitude) and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), and are continuing to grow and scale at pace!

Team & Structure

  • Role sits in the Strategy & Delivery team.
  • Works closely with technical specialists and other client-facing consultants
  • Role reports directly to the COO

The Role

The role incorporates strong Adobe Analytics experience with client management

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as the Adobe Analytics subject matter expert; you’ll need the ability to lead on end-to-end implementations
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and delivery roadmaps
  • Lead client-facing engagements: presentations, issue resolution, and insight delivery
  • Drive internal process improvement and delivery standards

Your Skills & Experience

  • Adobe Analytics SME (+ wider Adobe stack expertise)
  • Strong client communication and stakeholder management skills
  • High energy, curiosity, and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

The Benefits

  • £70,000-£90,000 (DOE)
  • Remote-first role – 1x day a month to London (expensed)
  • Bonus

How To Apply

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page

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Adobe Analytics Implementation Specialist

City of London

£450 - £500

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
City of London, London

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Adobe Analytics Implementation Specialist (QA Focused)
£450-500/day, Hybrid (1-2 days in office), London, Inside IR35

This freelance project stands out for an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist who wants to apply their technical expertise in a quality assurance and governance capacity. Rather than building implementations directly, you will use your deep implementation knowledge to review, validate, and improve work delivered by others within a mature analytics function.

The Company
They are a large, well-established organisation with a strong digital presence and a clear commitment to high-quality analytics. Analytics is embedded across their digital products, supported by an experienced in-house team. The environment is collaborative, with an emphasis on best practice, consistency, and reliable data. This role adds a layer of assurance to an already capable Adobe Analytics team.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Act as an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist, providing QA oversight across implementations
  • Review tracking specifications, tagging approaches, and data layers designed by other specialists
  • Validate Adobe Analytics implementations against agreed requirements and best practice
  • Identify implementation issues, edge cases, and data quality risks, and document clear feedback
  • Work closely with implementation specialists to support remediation and improvement
  • Contribute to the ongoing refinement of analytics implementation standards and QA processes

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience as an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist in complex digital environments
  • Deep understanding of tagging, data layers, and implementation frameworks
  • Proven ability to QA and review analytics implementations, rather than purely testing outcomes
  • Confidence in assessing other specialists’ work and providing clear, constructive guidance
  • Comfortable working in a hybrid London-based setup with regular collaboration on site

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Adobe Analytics contract focused on implementation QA and data quality excellence.

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Senior Analytics Engineer (12 month FTC)

Edinburgh

£67000 - £67000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Edinburgh

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Senior Analytics Engineer – 12 month fixed term contract

UK Remote

£78,000 plus benefits

This Senior Analytics Engineer role stands out as a chance to play a key part in a large scale Lakehouse programme, sitting at the intersection of engineering, analytics and the wider business. You will take real ownership of curated data models, shape how data is structured and served across the organisation, and influence best practice as the analytics engineering capability continues to grow.

The Company

They are a large, well established UK organisation with a strong reputation for combining technical excellence with a people first culture. Data and analytics are a strategic priority, with ongoing investment into a modern cloud based data platform. Engineering teams are expanding as part of a broader transformation, creating genuine opportunities to have impact and influence.

The Role

You will join a growing analytics engineering team and play a critical role in the Lakehouse environment. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the design and delivery of curated, analytics ready data models within the Lakehouse
  • Owning the transformation from enriched to curated datasets, enabling trusted reporting and insight
  • Developing and maintaining robust SQL and PySpark transformation pipelines in Databricks
  • Embedding data quality, testing, reliability and performance into the curated layer
  • Working closely with data engineers, BI teams and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements
  • Providing technical leadership, mentoring and setting modelling and engineering standards
  • Contributing to CI/CD processes and wider engineering best practice across the data platform

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as an Analytics Engineer within a modern data platform
  • Excellent data modelling capability, including dimensional and semantic modelling
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong hands on experience with PySpark
  • Experience working with Databricks and Lakehouse architectures
  • A solid grounding in engineering best practices, testing and data quality
  • Confidence mentoring others and taking ownership of technical decisions
  • An engineering mindset applied to analytics, rather than an analyst focused role

What They Offer

  • Flexible by choice working, supporting different schedules and work life balance
  • A 35 hour working week within a supportive, inclusive engineering culture
  • The opportunity to shape a critical data programme with real visibility across the business

How to Apply

If you are a Senior Analytics Engineer looking to make an impact in a growing Lakehouse environment, apply now to find out more.

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