Data Scientist

Identity Resolution Lead / Senior Data Scientist We are seeking an experienced Identity Resolution Lead to design and deliver advanced customer identity matching capabilities across enterprise data platforms. The role focuses on leveraging graph-based entity resolution, record linkage, fuzzy matching, and machine learning techniques to accurately resolve customer identities where deterministic rules alone are insufficient.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy scalable identity resolution solutions using graph-based and ML-driven approaches.
• Design matching frameworks that improve customer identity accuracy and reduce identity drift.
• Define and monitor matching-quality metrics to continuously improve performance.
• Integrate identity resolution outputs into Customer Master, MDM, and golden-layer architectures.
• Build reusable frameworks and MLOps-enabled pipelines to support long-term scalability.
• Contribute to the evolution of customer-spine and customer hierarchy capabilities.

Required Skills

• Graph/entity resolution and record linkage.
• Fuzzy matching and ML-based identity resolution.
• MLOps and feature store technologies.
• Customer Master Data Management (MDM).

Desirable Skills

• Customer identity hierarchy design.
• Customer-spine architecture.
• Golden-layer integration.
• Matching-quality measurement and optimisation.
• Reusable identity-resolution frameworks and identity drift reduction strategies.

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