From Data Foundations to AI Delivery Hires

Data, AI & Analytics Recruitment for Real Business Impact

Your data ambitions depend on the people behind them. Building reliable pipelines, helping colleagues understand performance, and putting machine learning models into production each require a different combination of technical and business knowledge.

Our AI recruitment and broader data expertise help you find the people you need, whether you’re strengthening an established team, adding new capabilities, or finding leadership to guide your next investment.

Data and AI Recruitment Specialists

Connect your data ambitions with the right expertise

Explore the specialisms below to see where we can support your team. We shape each search around your systems, the work involved and how the person will contribute to your business.

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Data Engineering Recruitment

Data engineering recruitment starts with how data moves through your business. Integrating sources, modernising warehouses, improving pipeline reliability, and building cloud data platforms each require distinct expertise.

MA helps you define the engineering skills your environment needs. We tailor the search to your architecture, tools, and data requirements, connecting you with specialists who can build and maintain the foundations your teams rely on.

Roles may include: Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Architects, Data Platform Engineers, ETL Developers, Cloud Data Engineers.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics Recruitment

Business intelligence recruitment starts with the questions you need to answer. Building Power BI dashboards, defining performance measures, modeling reporting data, and helping teams apply insights each require distinct expertise.

MA helps you identify professionals with the right reporting, analytical, and stakeholder skills. We focus on your tools, users, and business priorities, whether you’re improving established reporting or introducing new analytics capability.

Roles may include: BI Developers, Power BI Developers, Tableau Developers, Data Analysts, BI Consultants, Analytics Managers.

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Data Science and ML Recruitment

Machine learning recruitment depends on what you want a model to achieve and how you'll use it. Exploring a forecasting approach requires different experience than deploying, monitoring, and maintaining a model in production.

As a data science recruitment agency, MA helps you define the balance of statistical, engineering, and business knowledge your role needs. We shape the search around your use case, available data, and existing team.

Roles may include: Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Applied Scientists, MLOps Engineers, Data Science Leads.

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AI Recruitment

AI recruitment starts with a clear understanding of the problem you want to solve. Developing a prototype requires different experience from integrating an AI application into business systems and supporting it in everyday use.

MA helps you identify the skills your application needs. Whether you’re working with generative AI, language models, or retrieval systems, we focus on relevant development, evaluation, and deployment experience.

Roles may include: AI Engineers, Generative AI Engineers, NLP Specialists, AI Architects, AI Product Managers, AI Technical Leads.

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The right people for what comes next

Whether you need flexible expertise, a permanent addition or a leader to set direction, find the hiring support that fits your data and AI ambitions.

Growing your team?

Hire specialists to own your data platforms, develop reporting and build lasting analytics and AI capability.

Permanent Recruitment
Need flexible support?

Bring in data, AI and analytics contractors to fill skills gaps, support ongoing work or increase capacity when you need it.

Contract Staffing
Hiring a leader?

Find senior leaders to guide your data strategy, develop your teams and shape AI investment around business priorities.

Executive Search

Who Will Lead Your Next Chapter in AI?

Building AI capability also means deciding who should lead it. Explore guidance from Elliott Delente, MA’s Director of Permanent Recruitment and founder of the AI Leaders Club, on defining leadership responsibilities and making your next senior appointment.

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FAQs

Data, AI & Analytics Recruitment Questions, Answered

It’s helpful to know what you’d like your new hire to achieve, the systems they’ll work with and the experience your team needs. Details such as location, working arrangements and budget give us a starting point. For contractors, a preferred start date and expected duration also help. If you’re still working out the role, we can help you shape the brief.

Yes, we help you find contractors across data engineering, business intelligence, data science and AI. Whether you need specialist expertise, support with ongoing work or additional capacity, we’ll discuss the skills, availability and timescales that suit your team.

Looking for your next contract role? Visit our Contractor Hub to explore opportunities and learn about working with MA.

Our approach to AI recruitment and machine learning recruitment starts with understanding what you want to achieve and how far along you are. We help identify whether you need modelling, application development, deployment or operational experience, then shape the search around that work and your existing team.

A data engineer builds and maintains the pipelines and platforms that make data available. A BI specialist develops reporting and dashboards, while a data scientist uses statistical methods and modelling to explore questions or make predictions. If you’re unsure where your requirement sits, we can talk through what you need to achieve.

Look for a data science recruitment agency that takes time to understand your use case, technical environment and team. It should be able to discuss the difference between research, experimentation and production delivery, and explain how it identifies relevant modelling, engineering and communication skills.

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