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 23: Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Data Protection in an AI-Driven World

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)

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Data Engineer

Colorado Springs

$115000 - $145000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Data Engineer

Fully Remote (U.S. Based)
Salary: Up to $135,000 Base Salary
Must be able to work collaboratively with teams across Eastern and Central time zones

Our client is seeking a Data Engineer to join a growing data team responsible for building and maintaining modern data solutions that drive business intelligence, analytics, and operational decision-making. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large-scale data sets, cloud technologies, and modern data platforms in a highly collaborative environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest and transform data from a variety of internal and external sources.
  • Build reliable, high-quality datasets that support reporting, analytics, and business initiatives.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, including analysts, engineers, and business teams, to deliver data solutions.
  • Develop and optimize data models within cloud-based data warehouse environments.
  • Implement data quality, monitoring, and validation processes to ensure data integrity.
  • Support both batch and near real-time data processing workflows.
  • Contribute to data governance, security, and compliance initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

  • 4+ years of Data Engineering experience.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience working with modern data technologies such as Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Informatica IDMC, or similar tools.
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and ETL/ELT best practices.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a remote, collaborative environment.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience supporting large-scale customer, operational, or transactional data environments.
  • Exposure to API integrations and third-party data sources.
  • Experience supporting analytics, forecasting, personalization, or data science initiatives.

Requirements

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
  • U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder only
  • Ability to work remotely within the United States
  • Comfortable collaborating with teams across EST and CST time zones

If you’re interested in learning more, apply today or connect with me directly for a confidential conversation.

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Senior Data Mining and Payment Integrity Analyst

Remote

$50 - $60

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
USA

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Senior Data Mining & Payment Integrity Analyst
Remote, USA
This is an opportunity to join a specialist healthcare analytics team focused on improving payment accuracy and reducing improper healthcare spend. You will play a key role in developing data mining and payment integrity solutions that help clients identify overpayments, strengthen claims accuracy, and support better outcomes across healthcare reimbursement programs.
The Company
They are a healthcare-focused organisation that delivers analytics, auditing, and payment integrity solutions to support health plans and other healthcare stakeholders. Their teams combine domain expertise, data analysis, and technology to improve claims accuracy and reimbursement processes. Working cross-functionally, they develop innovative approaches to identifying billing anomalies and payment issues across complex healthcare datasets.
The Role and Deliverables

  • Develop and implement data mining concepts that identify provider overpayments across medical, dental, and pharmacy claims.
  • Research healthcare regulations, industry guidelines, reimbursement policies, and provider contracts to design and configure payment integrity algorithms.
  • Collaborate with operational, clinical, engineering, and client-facing teams to implement and enhance audit solutions.
  • Review and validate analytical outputs, supporting quality assurance and proof-of-concept activities.
  • Support appeals, validation, and client services teams by resolving issues related to production analytics and audit queries.
  • Document findings, create supporting materials, and contribute new ideas that improve audit processes and payment integrity methodologies.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in healthcare payment integrity, healthcare analytics, or data mining.
  • Demonstrated expertise analysing medical, dental, or pharmacy claims data.
  • Ability to apply healthcare reimbursement policies, CMS regulations, coding guidelines, and industry standards to claims analysis.
  • Experience reviewing and validating claims data and payment accuracy within auditing or payment integrity environments.
  • Skilled at translating complex regulatory and reimbursement requirements into scalable analytical solutions.
  • Comfortable partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.

How to Apply
If you have a background in healthcare payment integrity and claims analytics and are interested in a remote contract opportunity, please apply with your latest CV for further information.

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Senior Pricing Analyst

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Pricing Analyst | £40k-£55k + Bonus | London

A leading digital-first insurance business is growing its London pricing team and looking for a Senior Pricing Analyst to work across Risk, Retail and Telematics Pricing.

You’ll own end-to-end pricing projects across multiple products, working closely with data scientists and senior stakeholders.

Looking for:

  • Pricing analytics experience – ideally insurance, but other data-driven industries considered

  • Strong Python or SQL

  • Strong stakeholder management

  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end

  • Curious and commercially minded

£40k-£55k, with flexibility for strong insurance candidates, plus up to 10% bonus and excellent benefits.

London | Hybrid – 1 day per week in the office

Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Senior Healthcare Payment Integrity Analytics Consultant

$55 - $60

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
California

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Senior Healthcare Payment Integrity Analytics Consultant

Initial 6-Month Contract
Rate: $60 per hour

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Healthcare Payment Integrity Analytics Consultant to support the development of advanced analytical solutions focused on improving claims accuracy and identifying payment discrepancies across healthcare reimbursement programmes.

This role combines healthcare domain expertise with data analytics and audit methodologies to design scalable solutions that enhance payment integrity, support compliance initiatives, and drive operational efficiencies. The successful candidate will work closely with a range of business, clinical, and technical stakeholders to deliver high-impact insights and innovative recovery strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement data mining and analytical solutions to identify payment inaccuracies and overpayments across healthcare claims.
  • Develop and refine algorithms that detect billing, coding, reimbursement, and contractual payment discrepancies.
  • Research and interpret healthcare regulations, industry standards, and reimbursement guidelines to support analytics development.
  • Analyse provider agreements and reimbursement methodologies to identify opportunities for payment recovery and accuracy improvements.
  • Configure and deploy payment analytics solutions for both new and existing client environments.
  • Provide subject matter expertise to support validation, appeals, operations, and client-facing teams.
  • Act as a senior team member, providing mentorship and guidance to junior analysts.
  • Review analytical outputs and support quality assurance activities to ensure accuracy and effectiveness of developed solutions.
  • Produce clear documentation, reports, presentations, and business recommendations based on analytical findings.
  • Collaborate with operational, clinical, and technology teams to improve audit methodologies and enhance payment integrity processes.
  • Partner with technical teams to identify and implement automation and process improvement opportunities.
  • Contribute innovative ideas that strengthen existing analytics frameworks, audit strategies, and recovery programmes.

Required Experience & Skills

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in healthcare payment integrity, healthcare analytics, claims auditing, or data mining.
  • At least 3 years’ experience analysing healthcare claims within one or more of the following areas:
    • Medical Claims
    • Dental Claims
    • Pharmacy Claims
  • Strong understanding of healthcare reimbursement methodologies, billing practices, and claims processing.
  • Experience applying healthcare regulations, coding standards, and reimbursement guidelines within an audit or analytical environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex policy and regulatory requirements into scalable analytical solutions.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience reviewing and validating claims data, payment accuracy, and audit findings is highly desirable.
  • Previous experience within payment recovery, payment integrity, healthcare auditing, or compliance-focused environments is advantageous.

Contract Details

  • Contract Length: Initial 6 months
  • Rate: $60 per hour
  • Type: Contract

This role would suit a senior healthcare analytics professional with a strong background in payment integrity, claims auditing, data mining, and healthcare reimbursement analysis who enjoys solving complex challenges and driving measurable financial and operational outcomes.

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CRM Analyst

Watford

£30000 - £35000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Watford, Hertfordshire

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CRM Analyst | Consumer Brand | Hertfordshire | £35k + Bonus

We’re working with a household-name UK consumer brand that is investing heavily in CRM and digital. They’re looking to hire a CRM Analyst to join their growing CRM team in Hertfordshire.

This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career with solid SQL foundations and strong communication skills, who wants clear progression into Senior Analyst, CRM Management or BI roles.

The role will involve:

  • Building campaign audiences and customer segments using SQL
  • Monitoring and managing the CRM campaign schedule
  • Working within Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Automation Studio
  • Updating and amending audience selection queries
  • Validating and cross-checking audiences before campaigns go live
  • Supporting recurring and promotional campaigns, including campaigns with multiple versions and customer segments
  • Managing requests for new audience segments from stakeholders
  • Delivering basic campaign analysis and reporting

The CRM function is around 35 people and has grown significantly in recent years, with further hiring planned. Longer term, this person will become the go-to owner of CRM scheduling, coordinating campaign activity across the Strategy, Operations and Data teams.

We’re particularly interested in candidates with a STEM or data-focused degree and some exposure to SQL, whether through university, a placement, an internship or an early-career role.

You’ll need basic to intermediate SQL skills (joins, aggregations and GROUP BY), strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities. CRM, marketing or Salesforce Marketing Cloud experience would be a bonus.
Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential, as this role involves working closely with teams across the business. The team is looking for someone who combines technical ability with real confidence in dealing with people.

Salary: £35k + Bonus
Location: Hertfordshire (hybrid, 3 days a week in the office)
Unfortunately, visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

If you have SQL skills from a data-focused background and are open to a new opportunity, please feel free to apply below for more information.

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BI Lead

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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BI Lead

Up to £60,000

FTC/Remote (UK)

This is an excellent opportunity for a BI Lead to join a data-driven organisation delivering impactful insight at scale. You’ll play a key role in enhancing reporting capabilities, shaping data models, and supporting strategic projects that influence decision-making across a wide range of stakeholders.

The Company

They are a nationally recognised organisation that uses data, analytics, and digital innovation to support large-scale programmes and engagement initiatives. Their analytics function is investing heavily in modern data platforms and self-service reporting capabilities, creating a strong environment for BI professionals to make a tangible impact.

Working within a collaborative Data & Analytics team, you’ll partner with engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, and senior leaders to deliver high-quality insights and reporting solutions.

The Role

As a BI Lead, you will focus on developing and optimising reporting solutions, improving data models, and supporting stakeholders across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Enhancing and maintaining existing Power BI dashboards and reports
  • Working with semantic models and parameterised reporting solutions
  • Designing and optimising data models to support business reporting requirements
  • Translating stakeholder requirements into scalable reporting and analytics solutions
  • Supporting external and internal reporting products
  • Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve data accessibility
  • Contributing to strategic data initiatives and new reporting projects
  • Applying business analysis skills to understand reporting challenges and deliver effective solutions
  • Supporting best practices across Power BI development, governance, and deployment processes

Your Skills & Experience

You will ideally have:

  • Strong commercial experience with Power BI, including front-end development and back-end modelling
  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Strong data modelling expertise
  • Experience writing and optimising DAX measures
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience gathering and translating business requirements
  • Understanding of dimensional modelling approaches and reporting best practices
  • Exposure to CI/CD processes, Azure DevOps, or similar deployment methodologies

Highly desirable experience includes:

  • Kimball methodology
  • Star schema design
  • Medallion architecture

Additional experience with Databricks, Databricks Genie, AI, or NLP technologies would be beneficial but is not essential.

What They Offer

  • Salary of £60,000
  • Fixed-term contract through to October 2027
  • Fully remote working with occasional travel to London or Birmingham
  • Opportunity to work on high-profile data and analytics initiatives
  • Exposure to modern data platforms and advanced reporting environments
  • Collaborative and supportive analytics team
  • Strong visibility across the organisation with opportunities to influence reporting strategy

How to Apply

If you are a BI Lead or senior Power BI professional with strong data modelling expertise and a passion for delivering impactful reporting solutions, please apply through the link!

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Business Intelligence Lead – 12 Month FTC

London

£55000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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BI Lead (Fixed Term Contract to October 2027)
Remote, UK, Up to £60,000
No sponsorship offered

Must be immediately available or 1 month notice.

Looking for a role where your work directly influences business decisions and supports high-profile data initiatives? This is an opportunity to join a data-driven organisation undergoing a significant period of growth and transformation, where you’ll play a key role in maintaining and enhancing reporting capabilities across the business.

The Company

This organisation operates at a national scale and uses data, insight, and analytics to support strategic decision-making and stakeholder engagement. Their Data & Analytics function is investing heavily in modern data practices, self-service reporting, and emerging AI-driven technologies.
You’ll join a collaborative team of data professionals including Data Engineers, Analysts, and Business Analysis specialists, working on projects that combine technical excellence with real-world impact.

The Role

As BI Lead, you will take ownership of the organisation’s business intelligence and reporting capability during a key period of change. The role is heavily focused on Power BI, data modelling, stakeholder engagement, and the optimisation of existing reporting solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Enhancing and maintaining existing Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
  • Developing and supporting semantic models and data layers that underpin reporting
  • Translating business requirements into scalable reporting and data models
  • Working closely with stakeholders to understand reporting needs and drive continuous improvement
  • Writing and optimising DAX and SQL to support reporting and analytics
  • Ensuring reporting outputs are accurate, reliable, and aligned with data governance standards
  • Supporting external-facing reporting products and self-service analytics capability
  • Contributing to Agile delivery processes, sprint planning, and roadmap activities
  • Maintaining documentation and promoting reporting best practice across the business
  • You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to innovative projects involving data products, AI-assisted analytics, and modern cloud data platforms.

Your Skills & Experience

  • You will bring strong commercial experience in:
  • Power BI development across both front-end reporting and back-end modelling
  • Data modelling and semantic layer design
  • SQL for data querying and transformation
  • DAX development and performance optimisation
  • Stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering
  • Communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Designing scalable reporting solutions using best-practice methodologies such as Kimball, Star Schema, or Medallion Architecture
  • Azure DevOps or CI/CD processes
  • Azure Databricks
  • Databricks Genie or AI-assisted analytics tools
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Agile delivery environments and sprint-based working

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £60,000
  • Fixed-term contract through to October 2027
  • Predominantly remote working model
  • Minimal travel requirements with occasional team meetups
  • Exposure to innovative data and analytics projects
  • Opportunity to work with large-scale behavioural, operational, and insight-led datasets
  • Collaborative and supportive data team environment
  • Chance to influence reporting strategy and best practice across the organisation

How to Apply

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BI Lead (12-MONTH FTC)

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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BI LEAD (12-MONTH FTC)
REMOTE (UK)
UP TO £60K

This is an excellent opportunity for a Business Intelligence & Visualisation Lead to join a data-driven organisation undergoing significant transformation. You’ll play a key role in shaping reporting capability, enhancing self-service analytics, and delivering impactful insights that influence decision-making across the business.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The BI Lead will:

  • Develop, optimise, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports
  • Enhance existing reporting solutions and self-service analytics capabilities
  • Work with semantic layers and data models to ensure reporting accuracy and performance
  • Write and maintain SQL and DAX to support reporting requirements
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective reporting solutions
  • Support dashboard governance, documentation, and reporting best practices
  • Work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Business stakeholders on key reporting initiatives
  • Contribute to agile delivery processes, sprint planning, and continuous improvement
  • Explore opportunities to leverage AI-enabled analytics tools within reporting workflows

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience with Power BI development, including both front-end visualisation and back-end modelling
  • Excellent SQL skills for querying, transforming, and structuring data
  • Strong understanding of data modelling principles, including concepts such as star schema, Kimball methodology, and semantic modelling
  • Experience developing and maintaining DAX measures and calculations
  • Confidence engaging with stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical solutions
  • Experience working within agile environments and managing prioritised workloads
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Any experience with CI/CD is desirable

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