Data Engineer — Entity Resolution & Pipelines (Hybrid)

IT & Telecomms; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 157,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

IT & Telecomms is seeking a Quantexa Data Engineer on a 6–12 month contract to join a data and decision intelligence program.

You will build and maintain data pipelines behind the Quantexa platform, integrating data from multiple sources and delivering trusted views of people, organisations, accounts and transactions. The role requires strong technical delivery, data governance awareness, and clear communication with architects and governance stakeholders.

Qualifications

• In‑depth experience delivering Quantexa implementations as an engineer or developer.
• Proficiency in Scala and Apache Spark for large scale processing.
• Strong SQL and data modelling across disparate systems.
• Understanding of entity resolution and graph concepts.
• Ability to communicate what was built and why clearly.
• Quantexa certification or delivery through a partner is preferred.
• Experience with financial services, risk, AML or compliance data is a plus.
• Exposure to data governance, lineage and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Ingest and prepare data from multiple internal and external sources for Quantexa
• Design, develop and maintain transformation and processing pipelines
• Map source data into Quantexa data models and entity structures
• Cleanse, standardise, validate and reconcile high‑volume datasets
• Configure and support entity resolution, matching and network generation
• Optimise pipelines for performance, scalability and reliability
• Troubleshoot data quality issues and pipeline or platform failures
• Embed data quality, lineage and access controls into engineering processes
• Work with architects, BAs, data specialists and governance stakeholders
• Support testing, release, production deployment and ongoing maintenance

Skills

Scala

Apache Spark

SQL

Data modelling

Data integration

Entity resolution

Communication

Quantexa certification

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Elasticsearch

Git & CI/CD

Data governance

Regulated-sector data

Tools

Quantexa

Job description

IT & Telecomms is seeking a Quantexa Data Engineer on a 6–12 month contract to join a data and decision intelligence program.

You will build and maintain data pipelines behind the Quantexa platform, integrating data from multiple sources and delivering trusted views of people, organisations, accounts and transactions. The role requires strong technical delivery, data governance awareness, and clear communication with architects and governance stakeholders.