Manager – HR Business Partner, Advisory

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Working Model: Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week
 

We are partnering with a growing national professional services organization to hire a Manager-level HR Business Partner supporting a large, multi-service-line Advisory practice.

This is a highly visible, hands-on HRBP position for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of employee relations and strategic people partnership. You will work closely with senior business leaders to navigate complex employee matters, strengthen organizational effectiveness, develop talent, and execute people initiatives aligned with broader business objectives.

The organization has a significant presence in California, making strong practical knowledge of California employment law particularly important.

The successful candidate will be proactive, commercially minded and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key HR Business Partner to leaders and employees across a national Advisory practice.

• Provide both strategic and day-to-day HR guidance across employee relations, performance management, organizational effectiveness, talent development and workforce planning.

• Lead and resolve complex employee relations matters, including workplace investigations, conflict resolution and performance issues.

• Coach senior leaders on people management, employee development, organizational structure and change.

• Develop strong relationships with business leadership to understand evolving organizational priorities, workforce requirements and talent needs.

• Manage and develop direct reports while creating a collaborative and high-performing HR environment.

• Partner with specialist HR teams across Talent Acquisition, Benefits, Payroll and other people functions.

• Support annual talent processes including performance reviews, compensation planning, promotions and succession planning.

• Ensure HR practices remain compliant with applicable federal, state and local employment requirements, with particular emphasis on California employment law.

• Support employee engagement and retention initiatives across the business.

• Leverage workforce data and HR reporting to identify trends and support business decision-making.

• Maintain accurate employee information and support effective use of HRIS platforms.

• Partner across the organization on strategic HR initiatives, special projects and risk mitigation.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of progressive HR experience, with meaningful HR Business Partner and Employee Relations responsibilities.

• Strong, hands-on experience managing complex employee relations matters and workplace investigations.

• Strong working knowledge of California employment law and experience supporting California-based employees.

• Experience within professional services, consulting, public accounting, legal, financial services or a similarly client-focused environment.

• Experience advising and influencing senior business leaders on sensitive and complex people matters.

• Ability to balance strategic HR partnership with hands-on execution.

• Experience supporting multi-state employee populations is highly desirable.

• Previous people-management experience is preferred.

• Strong judgment, discretion and ability to navigate confidential employee matters.

• Excellent relationship-building, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Experience working with HRIS platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline preferred; professional HR certifications are advantageous.

Role: Lead IAM Technical Architect

Length: Initial 6-month engagement - with a view to extend

Location: Remote with occasional travel

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Pay Rate: £650 - £750 per day

One of my public sector clients are looking for an Lead IAM Technical Architect to join their team for an initial 6-month contract on a remote basis with occasional travel to site in Swindon. The IAM Technical Architect will be responsible for defining and delivering the enterprise identity architecture, establishing identity as the primary security control plane across services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• High-level experience of IGA
• Strong experience in Zero Trust architecture and identity-driven access control
• Design of identity lifecycle governance models and audit controls
• Integration and migration architecture across legacy and modern platforms
• Experience with platforms such as Entra ID, AWS Cognito & PAM

Are you interested in this position? If so, then please respond with your CV and I will be in touch ASAP. 

Lawrence Harvey are partnered with a leading organisation in Bristol that are looking for a Payroll Business Analyst to support them during their greenfield Dayforce implementation programme. 

You will be leading on all Payroll business requirements gathering & business readiness efforts, supporting through the entire project deployment cycle including Payroll Data Migration and Testing initiatives.

Dayforce experience is highly desired, but the client will consider a strong Payroll Business Analyst. 

This is an initial 6 month contract paying circa £500 Outside IR35 and is a hybrid model of 3 days per week in Bristol - this is non-negotiable. This will start in September. 

Experience:
 

• Proven Business Analyst experience on large-scale HR, Payroll or HCM implementations.
• Strong payroll process expertise, preferably within UK payroll environments.
• Experience delivering Dayforce, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM or similar payroll implementations.
• Strong data migration experience
• Experience managing complex stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating workshops and requirements sessions.
• Exposure to payroll integrations and data interfaces.
• Experience supporting UAT and parallel payroll testing.
• Dayforce experience is highly desirable 

If available at short notice for a new contract and you fit the requirements above, please apply with your up to date CV.

Data Engineer | Metropark, New Jersey

Hybrid | $88,000–$105,000 Base + Bonus

We are seeking an early-career Data Engineer to join a growing technology team focused on developing and supporting modern data pipelines and cloud-based data infrastructure.

This opportunity is well suited to a Data Engineer, Data Analyst, or recent graduate with strong foundational skills in SQL and Python who is looking to build hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, and modern lakehouse architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of data pipelines across Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architecture layers
• Ingest and organize raw data within the Bronze layer
• Support data cleansing, deduplication, validation, and schema enforcement within the Silver layer
• Develop SQL and PySpark transformations based on defined business and technical requirements
• Assist with data quality, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting of pipeline jobs
• Work with structured and semi-structured data within cloud-based data environments
• Collaborate closely with senior data engineers to learn and apply modern data engineering practices
• Contribute to scalable and reliable data solutions using version-controlled development practices

Required Qualifications

• 0–2 years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field; internships and academic projects are considered
• Foundational knowledge of SQL, including joins, filtering, aggregations, and querying relational data
• Experience with Python and an understanding of basic object-oriented programming concepts
• Understanding of core data concepts, including tables, schemas, relational databases, and data structures
• Familiarity with Git or demonstrated ability to quickly learn version-control practices
• Strong interest in developing expertise across Databricks, Spark, and cloud technologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Databricks, Apache Spark, or PySpark
• Understanding of Delta Lake or medallion architecture
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Databricks certification
• Exposure to BI, reporting, or data visualization tools
• Academic or project experience building data pipelines or working with data transformation workflows

Compensation & Work Arrangement

Salary: $88,000–$105,000 base salary + discretionary bonus

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career professional looking to develop a strong foundation in data engineering, cloud data platforms, Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architecture while working alongside experienced engineers.

Interested in learning more? Apply directly or reach out to j.valderrama@lawrenceharvey.com for additional information.

Data Engineer | Hybrid | Metropark, New Jersey

Manufacturing Data Architecture Lead

$180-220k base salary + 20% bonus

Hybrid - Dallas, TX (relocation support available)

US Citizen or Green Card Holder

I’m currently working with a global medical device company who have an exciting new opportunity for a Manufacturing Data Architecture Lead to join their growing Smart Technology team in Dallas. The company are actively driving digital manufacturing, enterprise digital systems and operational technology initiatives across their global manufacturing plants.

This is a new position for the business and will be responsible for establishing global data standards and governance, enabling scalable analytics, AI/ML solutions and dashboarding. This role will be driving the development of insights, optimization and alert capabilities, as well as evaluating & deploying predictive maintenance, automated diagnostics and process control technologies. Other responsibilities include:

• Define and lead the global OT data architecture strategy, standardizing industrial data platforms, protocols, middleware and reference architectures to enable secure, and reliable OT-to-IT/cloud data integration across global manufacturing sites
• Lead the development and governance of global manufacturing data standards, asset models, hierarchies and contextualization frameworks to ensure consistent, high-quality and reusable data across sites, equipment, and process technologies
• Drive the development of manufacturing analytics capabilities by enabling dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection and AI/ML-driven insights that improve operational performance and identify OEE optimization opportunities across diverse production environments
• Support the development and scaling of advanced industrial analytics capabilities, including predictive maintenance, process optimization, digital twins and automated decision-making, while partnering with operations and controls teams to integrate analytics into manufacturing intelligence and control strategies

Key skills & experience:

• Demonstrable experience (5+ years) in a Industrial Analytics/Data Engineering role - ideally come from a regulated environment, such as Medical Devices, Pharma, Life Sciences, MedTech or BioTech
• Good understanding of manufacturing systems & automation (PLCs, SCADA, MES, ERPs and historians)
• Hands-on experience with industrial data platforms and protocols (MQTT, REST APIs, OPS UA, etc.)
• Experience enabling or collaborating on AI/ML solutions for manufacturing, as well as time-series data analytics, visualization and alerting
• Understanding of industrial cybersecurity principles and IT/OT security boundaries
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance, reliability analytics, digital twin concepts, closed-loop optimization strategies and process optimization

Interested? Hit apply now or share a copy of your resume directly to m.wright@lawrenceharvey.com