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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Lead Software Engineer – MLOps

New York

$220000 - $240000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
New York

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Lead Software Engineer – MLOps

$220,000-$240,000 base + bonus + benefits

New York, New York – 3 days/week hybrid

About the Organization

Join a global financial services company delivering intelligent information and technology solutions to professionals in legal, tax, compliance, and corporate sectors. The team is part of the organization’s innovation hub, focused on applying AI, LLM, and data science to create forward-looking tools.

The environment combines the best of both worlds: startup energy with enterprise support. Projects include building agentic systems to automate tax prep and document summarization for legal and financial workflows.

About the Role

  • Provide technical leadership across research and engineering initiatives
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and scalable methodologies
  • Lead technical workstreams and influence cross-team design decisions
  • Mentor engineers and elevate team-level technical capabilities
  • Design and build scalable ML systems and data pipelines
  • Enable researchers to develop, train, and deploy novel ML models
  • Collaborate with research scientists to prototype and productionize AI solutions
  • Support full lifecycle: spec > design > build > scale > maintain
  • Build high-performance systems for large-scale online environments
  • Develop data processing pipelines for ML experimentation and training
  • Ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability

What You’ll Bring

  • 7+ years of commercial experience preferred with a focus on building and deploying machine learning and LLM models, ideally with AI voice, multi-modal or chatbot systems
  • Software engineering background with recent experience with AI products
  • Strong Python development expertise; familiar with Terraform, TypeScript, Java
  • Experience building and scaling ML systems in production
  • Familiarity with ML/data science ecosystem (NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar)
  • Strong system design and DevOps fundamentals, specifically with CI/CD
  • MLOps toolset in MLFlow, KubeFlow or other orchestration tools
  • Ability to collaborate with research scientists and engineers
  • Strong communication and leadership skills
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Machine Learning | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Technology | MLOps | LLMOps | Legal | Financial Services | Deployment | Production | LLMs | LLM | Large Language Models | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | Voice Bots | Chatbots | Natural Language Processing | Infrastructure | Architecture | CI/CD | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment | Fortune 500 | Docker | Kubernetes | Software | MLFlow | PyTorch | TensorFlow | Applied Research | Terraform | MLflow | Kubeflow

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Lead Data Engineer

Manchester

£75000 - £90000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Lead Data Engineer

UK Remote | £75,000 to £90,000

This is a rare opportunity to step into a Lead Data Engineer role within a growing, boutique consulting environment where greenfield delivery and real ownership are central to the work. You will combine hands on technical contribution with people leadership, shaping modern data platforms and processes for mid market organisations undergoing genuine digital transformation.

The Company

They are a specialist consulting firm focused on digital transformation across data, analytics and technology. Operating as a hands on delivery partner, they embed consultants directly into client squads to modernise data platforms and ways of working from the ground up. Their work spans end to end delivery, selling professional services rather than software products, with a strong emphasis on quality, autonomy and work life balance.

The Role

  • Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data platforms and analytics solutions across the full data lifecycle
  • Balance hands on technical work with leadership responsibilities, spending time both building and guiding
  • Manage and support a team of data engineers, providing direction, feedback and development support
  • Own projects end to end, from initial requirements through to production delivery
  • Work closely with stakeholders and clients, confidently challenging requirements and shaping best practice
  • Design data models and business processes that support scalable analytics and reporting

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer with solid foundations in SQL and dimensional modelling
  • Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery
  • Good Python capability, including orchestration tools such as Airflow
  • Proven experience building and managing data ingestion pipelines
  • Cloud experience within AWS or GCP environments
  • Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
  • Confidence leading people and projects, with clear communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable operating in greenfield environments with a high degree of autonomy

What They Offer

  • A modern, evolving tech stack with increasing use of AI driven features
  • Clear scope to influence technical direction and ways of working
  • Strong emphasis on work life balance and sustainable delivery
  • The opportunity to grow alongside the business in a senior leadership capacity

How to Apply

If you are a Lead Data Engineer looking for a role that blends technical impact with people leadership in a genuinely greenfield setting, apply now to learn more.

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Lead Data Scientist

City of London

£80000 - £125000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
City of London, London

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Lead / Principal Data Scientist

TRAVEL ACROSS THE UK REQUIRED

This is a great opportunity to join a growing consultancy and lead digital, AI, and analytics solutions that deliver real operational impact across the UK.

The Company
They are a specialist consulting organisation that helps complex public and private sector clients improve performance through data, AI, and digital tools. Their culture is collaborative, outcome focused, and built around delivering practical solutions that stick. With digital capability expanding rapidly, you will help shape how they deliver technology driven change.

The Role
* Identify opportunities to apply AI, analytics, and digital tooling.
* Lead technical workstreams from design through to implementation.
* Work closely with client teams on site across the UK.
* Translate technical concepts for non‑technical audiences.
* Support the development of colleagues and digital practices.

Your Skills and Experience
* Strong commercial experience delivering digital or AI solutions end to end.
* Expertise in at least one of AI, data science, analytics, or digital engineering.
* Confident leading multi‑disciplinary teams.
* Clear communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Flexible to travel to client sites across the UK.

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Lead Credit Risk Analyst

£55000 - £65000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
West Midlands

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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
West Midlands 1 to 2 days in the office
£55,000 – £65,000

This role offers the chance to take real ownership of credit risk strategy within a fast-evolving consumer lending environment. You will sit at a pivotal point between senior leadership and developing analysts, combining strategic influence with hands-on analytical delivery across high-impact projects.

The Company
They are a consumer-focused organisation with a large lending portfolio and a strong commitment to data-led decision making. Credit risk plays a central role in shaping sustainable growth, with close collaboration across analytics, technology and commercial teams. The environment is supportive and ambitious, with a clear focus on learning, development and progression.

The Role

  • Lead and evolve existing customer management and credit limit strategies across the lending book.
  • Support the redesign of credit limit management and implementation of new behavioural scorecards.
  • Deliver analysis to inform policy changes, decision system enhancements and customer limit adjustments.
  • Design, analyse and interpret tests and experiments to balance risk, growth and customer outcomes.
  • Produce portfolio analysis, MI and insight into wider customer trends.
  • Work closely with stakeholders across credit and analytics, with flexibility to move into acquisition-focused projects if of interest.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in consumer credit risk within lending products such as cards, loans or mortgages.
  • Demonstrated capability in acquisitions or existing customer management strategy, including limit or policy work.
  • Experience contributing to or leading credit limit management initiatives.
  • Strong analytical capability with SQL or a comparable analytical language.
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to translate analysis into actionable insight.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £65,000 depending on experience.
  • Hybrid working with 1 to 2 days per week in the West Midlands office and regular team collaboration days.
  • Exposure to wide-ranging, business-critical projects with clear strategic impact.
  • Strong opportunities for development, progression and movement across credit risk teams.
  • A collaborative culture that actively supports learning and professional growth.

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Commercial Manager

City of London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
City of London, London

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COMMERCIAL MANAGER – PRICING
UP TO £55,000 + BONUS + BENEFITS
LONDON / HYBRID

THE COMPANY

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing consumer finance business within the credit card space. The company has built out its own lending products, works across co-branded partnerships, and is going through an exciting stage of growth with new card launches coming soon.

THE ROLE

As a Commercial Manager, you will play a key role within the Acquisition team, focusing on pricing, performance and commercial optimisation. More specifically, you will be involved in the following:

  • Owning and improving pricing strategy across own-brand and co-branded credit card products
  • Looking at pricing levers such as APR and understanding the commercial impact of changes
  • Analysing competitor activity, customer behaviour, conversion rates and sales performance
  • Using SQL to extract and interrogate data to support commercial decision making
  • Working closely with aggregator, product, credit risk and decision systems teams
  • Creating new processes and identifying opportunities to improve acquisition performance
  • Supporting growth across aggregator channels and new product launches

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Commercial Manager will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong experience in a commercial, pricing or analytics-focused role
  • Experience within consumer lending, credit cards or broader financial services ideal
  • Strong SQL experience
  • Good understanding of pricing strategy and commercial performance
  • Experience working with data to identify opportunities and influence business decisions
  • Python experience would be beneficial but is not essential
  • Experience in gambling, insurance, telecoms or existing customer management could also be relevant
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

BENEFITS

The successful Commercial Manager will receive a competitive salary, bonus potential and benefits package. This is also a great opportunity to join a smaller, growing team where you can shape the role, work across new product launches, and continue developing technically and commercially.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Dylan Butcher via the Apply link on this page.

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Experimentation Specialist

London

£35000 - £45000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Experimentation Specialist

London | Up to £45,000 plus benefits | Hybrid working

A great opportunity to join a growing experimentation function within a large, digital-first organisation. This role offers the chance to shape testing strategy, influence roadmaps, and make a measurable impact across multiple brands and digital touchpoints. You will be joining at an exciting stage as they build out a dedicated team.

The Company

They are a well-established, multi-brand retail group with a significant presence in ecommerce and digital product. The organisation is investing heavily in experimentation, data and insights to drive performance and enhance customer experience across their online platforms. With a fast-paced environment and a strong appetite for testing, they offer the chance to embed experimentation culture across a complex digital ecosystem.

The Role

  • Support the build of a centralised experimentation function.
  • Translate commercial objectives into experimentation roadmaps.
  • Prioritise tests based on value, business context and feasibility.
  • Lead ideation, design and end-to-end execution of A/B tests.
  • Partner with technical teams to ensure robust implementation.
  • Analyse test results and communicate insights to stakeholders.
  • Distinguish CRM experimentation from website CRO and support both areas.
  • Contribute to training and enablement across digital teams.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience running experimentation programmes.
  • Hands-on experience setting up and analysing A/B tests.
  • Understanding of experimentation principles, digital metrics and measurement.
  • Experience with platforms such as GA4, Optimizely or similar tools.
  • Ability to create, manage and communicate experimentation roadmaps.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally within product, digital, CRM and tech teams.
  • Able to work independently and prioritise effectively.
  • Experience with user testing platforms is an advantage.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience.
  • Hybrid model with four days in the central London office.
  • 20 days holiday plus bank holidays.
  • Pension scheme with employer and employee contributions.
  • Access to wellbeing, health and financial support services.
  • Retail discounts across all brands.
  • Discounted gym membership and fitness support.
  • Employee recognition and reward schemes.
  • Internal learning platform with extensive training content.
  • Opportunities to progress as the experimentation function grows.

How to Apply
If you are passionate about experimentation and want to help shape a growing team, apply with your CV today.

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Senior CRM Manager

London

£50000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior CRM Manager
Central London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Up to £65,000

A fast-growing digital growth agency is looking for a Senior CRM Manager to lead strategy-led CRM programmes for high-profile UK brands.

This is a client-facing role combining insight, planning, and hands-on delivery. You’ll own CRM projects end to end across multiple clients, act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, and guide junior team members along the way.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Developing multi-channel CRM strategies (email, push, SMS)

  • Owning segmentation, journeys, and performance optimisation

  • Turning data into clear, actionable insights

  • Advising clients on CRM best practice and martech

  • Presenting confidently to senior client stakeholders

What we’re looking for:

  • ~5 years’ CRM experience (agency experience a bonus)

  • Strong strategic mindset (not just execution)

  • Confident, credible, client-facing communicator

  • Comfortable working across multiple clients and industries

Immediate availability is a plus, but flexibility for the right person.

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Lead Analyst – Pricing and Promotions

London

£45000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Lead Analyst – Pricing & Promotions

Up to £60,000 + benefits
Hybrid (1 day per week in London)

We’re working with a large UK retailer who are building out a new centralised analytics capability focused on pricing, promotions, and commercial optimisation. This is a newly created team with strong senior sponsorship and increasing investment in data-led decision making and AI-enabled pricing strategy.

The Opportunity

This is a high-visibility analytics role sitting close to commercial leadership, supporting pricing decisions across a large and complex retail estate. The team is responsible for developing more advanced, data-driven approaches to pricing and promotional effectiveness.

You’ll work across both strategic initiatives and fast-turnaround commercial analysis, helping shape how pricing is set, measured, and optimised.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyse competitor pricing activity and support commercial recommendations
  • Deliver insight and performance analysis across pricing and promotional activity
  • Support pricing optimisation and test-and-learn initiatives
  • Build analytical models (e.g. regression, elasticity, incrementality measurement)
  • Translate commercial questions into structured analytical outputs
  • Respond to ad hoc requests from senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Contribute to wider initiatives around AI and advanced pricing capability
  • Use SQL (essential) and Python for data analysis and insight generation
  • Line management responsibility for a junior/graduate analyst

Focus Areas / Projects

  • Development of a more advanced, AI-enabled pricing capability
  • Evaluation of promotional mechanics and pricing effectiveness in-store
  • Assessment of customer impact and incrementality of key pricing strategies
  • Ongoing optimisation of pricing decisions across the business

Candidate Profile

  • 3+ years’ experience in a commercial analytics role
  • Strong SQL skills (essential)
  • Working knowledge of Python for analysis/model development
  • Experience in pricing, promotions, elasticity, or commercial optimisation preferred
  • Strong stakeholder management experience, including senior stakeholders
  • Comfortable working in a fast-moving, reactive environment
  • Strong commercial awareness and ability to link data to business outcomes

What to Expect

  • Mix of strategic project work and urgent analytical requests
  • High stakeholder exposure and expectation of clear, actionable insight
  • Technical assessment and case study as part of interview process

Package

  • Up to £60,000
  • Hybrid working (1 day/week in London)
  • Competitive benefits package

Interview Process

Single stage process split into two parts:

  • Technical + competency interview
  • Live case study (in-person)

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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