We connect forward-thinking organisations with exceptional data professionals — and build the strategy to use them well.
Whether you need the right person in the right seat, or the right strategy to move your data practice forward — we can help.
Specialists in data roles — from Analysts and Engineers to CDOs and ML Engineers. Deep domain knowledge means better matches, faster.
Permanent & ContractFrom data strategy and governance to platform selection and team design. We embed with your organisation to build lasting data capability.
Advisory & DeliveryProprietary assessments that evaluate data candidates and existing teams — so you know exactly what skills you have and what you're missing.
Technical & Soft SkillsMost recruiters don't know a data warehouse from a data lake. We do. Our team has first-hand experience in data roles — we ask better questions and find better people.
Our consultants have backgrounds in data engineering, analytics, and BI. We evaluate candidates the way a hiring manager would.
We maintain deep relationships with passive candidates who aren't on job boards. The best data people rarely apply.
Our typical time-to-shortlist is under 10 working days, without sacrificing quality of assessment.
We support onboarding, check in at 30/60/90 days, and offer consulting to ensure new hires land well.
We learn your team, culture, tech stack, and what a great hire looks like for this role.
We tap our network, run technical assessments, and shortlist the strongest candidates.
We coordinate, brief candidates, and give you honest feedback after every round.
We help negotiate, manage the offer, and support the first 90 days for a strong start.
"Encryption Key found us a Senior Data Engineer in under two weeks — someone we'd been hunting for six months on our own. The quality of the brief they took was unlike any recruiter we'd used before."
"They don't just fill roles. The consulting engagement helped us rethink our entire data governance model — something we'd been putting off for years."
Whether you're hiring, exploring a consulting engagement, or want to understand the data talent market — we're happy to start that conversation.