DATA
GOVERNANCE
RECRUITMENT
Data Governance professionals work with all data touch points to get a full picture of how data is being used and then implement the policies and standards that protect it.
As the value, size and regulation of data grows, the data governance jobs market follows with professionals in Data Quality, Data Management, MDM, and Data Stewardship on the rise.
Companies now realise the power of their data and understand the need for people to track it, understand how it is being used, and the processes required to look after this asset.
With dedicated consultants hiring in this market, we have a fantastic network of data governance professionals across all levels. If you are looking to build a Data Governance team, or looking for your next Data governance job, please get in touch.
WHAT SETS US APART?
Our specialist focus encompasses roles in core verticals: Big Data and Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and Data Management and Data Governance.
We have the knowledge, the network and the required drive to find the best candidates on the market, as well as working with some of the most exciting data businesses around.
If you’re hoping to change careers or are looking for the right talent to fill an opening, Harnham can help.
As working from home becomes ever more common, you can now search Remote Data and Technology Jobs.
JOBS
LATEST DATA
GOVERNANCE OPPORTUNITIES
Harnham are a specialist Data & Analytics recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco
$180000 - $210000
+ Data Management & Governance
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Staff Data Scientist, Product
Location: Open / Hybrid / Remote (role-dependent)
Level: Senior Individual Contributor
Role Overview
This role sits within a growing Product Analytics & Data Science team and serves as the technical anchor for experimentation, causal inference, and advanced statistical methods. The Staff Data Scientist will play a critical role in elevating how experiments are designed, executed, interpreted, and trusted across the organization.
Beyond technical execution, this individual will be responsible for shaping experimentation culture, improving analytical rigor, and influencing product and executive stakeholders without direct authority. This is a high-impact IC role for someone who thrives at the intersection of data science depth, product thinking, and organizational influence.
Key Responsibilities
Experimentation & Causal Inference
- Own and evolve the experimentation framework across web and in‑product surfaces
- Design, review, and debug experiments to ensure statistical validity and consistent user experiences
- Apply Bayesian methods, sequential testing, and multi‑arm bandits to real product decisions
- Establish best practices for experimentation design, analysis, and rollout
- Act as the go‑to expert for causal inference questions across the product organization
Product Analytics & Modeling
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design to answer complex questions around:
- Feature adoption and usage
- User success and expansion
- Retention and churn drivers
- Build and deploy analytical models that inform product strategy and prioritization
- Translate ambiguous product questions into rigorous analytical approaches with clear recommendations
Technical Leadership & Coaching
- Review analytical approaches and model implementations from other team members
- Coach and mentor data scientists and analysts on advanced statistical techniques
- Set the technical bar for experimentation and analytical quality within the team
- Promote reproducible, well‑documented, and reviewable analytics work
Stakeholder Influence
- Educate non‑technical stakeholders on experimentation, uncertainty, and decision‑making
- Advocate for statistically sound practices in environments where experimentation maturity is low or fragmented
- Build trust in data science outputs through clear storytelling and business‑aligned insights
- Partner with leadership to define and prioritize the experimentation roadmap
Tooling & Infrastructure
- Contribute to the evaluation and implementation of experimentation platforms and tooling
- Work in a collaborative, code‑first environment using version control and peer review
- Ensure analytics and experimentation workflows are scalable and reliable
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or related fields
- Hands-on expertise in experimentation methodologies, including:
- Bayesian analysis
- Causal inference
- A/B and multivariate testing
- Sequential testing or multi‑arm bandits
- Strong product analytics background within a SaaS or digital product environment
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Comfortable working in Git-based workflows (PRs, code reviews)
- Experience deploying or productionizing at least one analytical or ML model
- Proven ability to connect technical work to business outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience evaluating or implementing experimentation tooling
- Exposure to user lifecycle analytics (activation, adoption, retention, churn)
- Familiarity with modern analytics engineering or experiment platforms
- Comfort working in ambiguous environments with evolving data maturity

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Head of Data Strategy & Governance
London
£130000 - £160000
+ Data Management & Governance
PermanentLondon
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Head of Data Strategy & Governance
Central London – 2 days a week in office
Salary: £130,000 – £160,000
This is a senior data leadership role with genuine influence. You will take ownership of how data is governed, trusted and scaled across a fast-growing, technology-led financial services business. With data at the heart of decision-making, this role offers the opportunity to shape strategy, solve complex quality challenges, and build a robust operating model that supports long-term growth.
The Company
They are a technology-driven financial services organisation operating at the intersection of finance and data. Their platform brings together complex financial information to provide clients with a clear, holistic view of their finances and support better long-term decisions. The business has grown rapidly and continues to invest heavily in its data and technology capabilities. The culture is collaborative, delivery-focused, and values ownership and clarity.
The Role
As Head of Data Strategy and Governance, you will define and embed how data is owned, managed, and trusted across the organisation. You will work closely with technology, product, and senior stakeholders to ensure data quality underpins every insight and client outcome.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and delivering the data strategy, operating model, and governance framework across the business
- Establishing clear data ownership, standards, and accountability in a federated environment
- Leading data quality initiatives to address real-world issues across multiple data sources
- Building and maintaining a single source of truth, including data dictionaries and master data approaches
- Overseeing the data platform within an AWS and Databricks environment, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Providing strategic oversight of BI and analytics, partnering with teams to enable trusted reporting
- Managing and developing a multi-disciplinary data team spanning operations, governance, and BI
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience in data strategy, data governance, and operating model design
- Deep understanding of data quality management, controls, and frameworks
- Experience working with modern cloud data platforms, including AWS and Databricks
- Ability to translate complex data and governance concepts for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset with the confidence to lead change in a scaling organisation
- Background in regulated or data-intensive environments is beneficial
What They Offer
- Competitive salary with flexibility depending on experience
- Hybrid working with two days a week in a central London office
- Private medical insurance with a comprehensive wellbeing and fitness programme
- 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over additional days
- Pension via salary sacrifice, plus access to multiple salary sacrifice schemes
- Enhanced parental leave, mental health support, and a dog-friendly office
- Study support, time for learning, and home working equipment on request
- Clear scope for progression and influence, with potential equity reviewed after probation
How to Apply
If you are looking to lead data strategy and governance in a growing, data-led organisation, apply now to find out more.
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Data Quality Analyst
Coventry
£450 - £500
+ Data Management & Governance
ContractCoventry, West Midlands
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Location: Coventry – 2-3 days per week
Contract: 6 months
IR35: Inside
Rate: £450-500per day
Start: 5th May
Overview
We’re supporting a business that has recently completed a review of its data landscape and identified data quality as a key gap. Ownership of data quality is currently unclear, with inconsistent processes and limited tooling in place.
You will take ownership of data quality across the organisation, working closely with business and technical teams to profile data, identify issues, and implement scalable quality processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage stakeholders across the business to gather data quality requirements
- Assess current data quality issues and define profiling and remediation activities
- Profile datasets to identify inconsistencies, errors, and gaps
- Work with teams to understand data usage and define quality rules and standards
- Implement data quality processes and governance frameworks
- Collaborate with Data Governance, Data Product, Platform, and Engineering teams
- Support the evaluation and potential implementation of data quality tooling
- Develop reporting and monitoring to track data quality improvements
Experience Required
- Strong experience in data quality, data governance, or data management roles
- Hands-on experience with data profiling and defining data quality rules
- Experience working with data quality tools (e.g. Precisely, Informatica or similar)
- Strong Excel skills; exposure to BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik
- Good understanding of data warehouses and data ecosystems
- Proven experience working in corporate environments with multiple stakeholders
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
- Demonstrated experience driving process improvements or change initiatives
Nice to Have
- Experience with Precisely (DQ+)
- Experience supporting tool selection or implementation processes

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Senior AI Engineer
San Francisco
$180000 - $220000
+ Data Management & Governance
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Senior AI Engineer (Agentic Systems & LLM Applications)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) Tuesday – Thursday (Onsite)
$180,000 – $220,000 base + equity + benefits
About the Company
This organization builds software that helps businesses operate with greater transparency, accountability, and trust. Its platform supports critical workflows around governance, risk, and operational decision-making, enabling teams to manage complex processes with speed and confidence.
The company has reached meaningful scale and is now investing heavily in its next phase – embedding advanced AI directly into core product workflows. This is not an experimentation layer; these are production systems that customers rely on to make real decisions.
Engineering teams operate with high ownership and low overhead. The environment rewards people who take initiative, challenge assumptions, and deliver systems that work in the real world.
About the Role
This is a high-ownership, builder role for engineers who want to push beyond “feature-level AI” and design systems that actually reason, act, and operate in production.
You will own end-to-end development of AI systems – from architecture and design through deployment, evaluation, and iteration. The focus is on building agentic systems and retrieval-driven pipelines that can handle complex, multi-step workflows across large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
This role is best suited for engineers who have already shipped LLM-based systems and want to go deeper – improving system reliability, designing evaluation frameworks, and building AI that can be trusted in high-stakes environments.
You’ll work closely with product and engineering leadership to define what gets built, not just how it gets built.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy production LLM systems capable of multi-step reasoning and decision support
- Build and scale agentic workflows that automate complex, long-running processes
- Design end-to-end RAG pipelines (ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, ranking, generation)
- Develop evaluation frameworks and guardrails to ensure system accuracy, reliability, and safety
- Optimize systems for latency, cost efficiency, and production performance
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to identify and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities
- Contribute to backend systems and infrastructure supporting large-scale AI deployment
Must Haves
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building AI/ML systems
- Strong Python expertise and experience building production-grade systems
- Proven track record shipping LLM-based applications into production
- Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector databases
- Experience building agent-based or multi-step AI systems
- Strong system design skills with experience in distributed systems
- Clear ownership of systems from initial concept through production and iteration
Nice to Have
- Experience with workflow orchestration or distributed task systems
- Familiarity with backend systems or TypeScript-based services
- Experience working with document-heavy or high-complexity datasets
- Exposure to evaluation frameworks, monitoring systems, or AI safety practices
Why Join
- Build AI systems that operate in real-world, high-stakes environments – not prototypes
- Own the architecture and evolution of agentic systems used by real customers
- Work on problems where correctness, reliability, and trust actually matter
- High autonomy with direct influence on product direction and technical strategy
- Strong compensation, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits
- In-person collaboration Tuesday-Thursday with a focused, high-caliber engineering team
- Opportunity to raise the technical bar alongside engineers who have shipped real systems

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Site Reliability Engineer (Contractor)
London
£540 - £550
+ Data Management & Governance
ContractLondon
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THE COMPANY
Join one of the world’s most recognisable entertainment brands as they continue to scale their global digital commerce platform. You’ll be part of a centralised Technical Operations function supporting revenue‑critical services used by millions of players worldwide. This is a high‑impact role where reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence are at the heart of everything you do.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will take ownership of reliability strategy and operational excellence across key commerce domains, including subscriptions and personalisation services on the PlayStation Network. Operating in a centralised SRE model, you’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams while maintaining horizontal responsibility for production health, resilience, and scalability.
You’ll lead incident response, define reliability standards, influence architectural decisions, and build automation that elevates deployment safety and operational efficiency. This is a hands‑on, senior technical role with direct influence on systems that generate significant global revenue.
Key Responsibilities
Reliability & Risk Engineering
* Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long‑term preventative improvements
* Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned to customer and business outcomes
* Lead high‑severity incident response, post‑incident reviews, and remediation planning
Architecture & Resilience
* Influence system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and failure isolation
* Design multi‑region HA, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery strategies
* Evaluate trade‑offs between performance, cost, and operational risk
CI/CD & Deployment Safety
* Enhance CI/CD pipelines with automation and safety guardrails
* Implement safe deployment patterns (canary, blue/green, progressive delivery)
* Ensure robust rollback and recovery mechanisms
Observability & Performance
* Build and evolve observability tooling across metrics, logs, and traces
* Reduce alert fatigue and improve signal quality
* Diagnose performance bottlenecks across infrastructure and applications
Infrastructure & Automation
* Design and operate cloud‑native and containerised workloads at scale
* Use IaC to build resilient, repeatable platforms
* Develop automation frameworks that eliminate manual toil
Leadership & Collaboration
* Mentor mid‑level engineers and champion SRE best practices
* Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to embed reliability into system design
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Required:
* Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
* 7+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles
* Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and consistency models
* Hands‑on experience operating production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure (multi‑region)
* Strong Kubernetes experience in large‑scale production environments
* Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java for tooling and automation
* Proven experience leading high‑severity incidents and driving cross‑team remediation
* Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems with deployment safety guardrails
Preferred:
* Multi‑cloud or multi‑region resilience experience
* Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar observability stacks
* Prior mentorship or technical leadership experience
* Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools
* Exposure to AI‑assisted tooling for incident analysis or operational insights
BENEFITS
* Competitive salary + bonus
* Hybrid working model
* Excellent pension, healthcare, and wellbeing benefits
* Opportunity to influence global‑scale systems used by millions
HOW TO APPLY
If you’re a Senior SRE who thrives in high‑scale, high‑impact environments and wants to shape the reliability of globally distributed systems, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or contact Harnham for more information.

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BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
DATA ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From the Data Engineers who design and build data platforms, and those that manage data quality and data governance, through to Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation professionals, our Data and Technology team recruits for roles that sit behind effective analytics.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From Data Science start-ups, to global Travel and Financial corporations, we help the best Software Engineering talent find rewarding careers.
As the scale and complexity of data increases, Software Engineers have become essential players in creating information solutions. The need to build end to end systems that turn data into products has seen a sharp increase in demand for these roles.
Developers working in Python, Scala, and Java, as well as Dev Ops professionals, are now amongst some of the most sought-after talent in the industry.
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