Identity / MDM Specialist

Company Description

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com.

Job Description

Blend is looking for an Identity / MDM Specialist to architect and implement the foundational layer that makes intelligent, data-driven decisions possible. This is a high-impact engineering role at the heart of our data platform you will design how customer identities are resolved, how households are linked, and how golden records are maintained across a complex multi-source environment.

If you have deep experience untangling messy, real-world identity data and a track record of building matching systems that actually work at scale, this role was designed for you.

Identity Resolution

• Design and implement customer matching logic using both deterministic and probabilistic approaches
• Build a household linkage model that connects individual subscribers to household units
• Implement deduplication logic across multiple heterogeneous data sources
• Define golden record structure, confidence scoring, and merge/split rules

Data Quality & Governance

• Establish data quality frameworks and monitoring to ensure identity integrity over time
• Define PII handling standards, lineage tracking, and audit trails for all identity data
• Develop confidence thresholds and escalation paths for low-confidence matches

Vendor & Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate with third-party identity enrichment vendors on data formats and matching keys
• Partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams to align on unified customer definitions
• Document architecture decisions, match rules, and operational runbooks

Qualifications

• 8 years in data engineering with at least 4 years focused on identity resolution or MDM
• Hands-on experience with MDM platforms and graph data models for entity resolution
• Proven track record building probabilistic matching algorithms in production environments
• Deep expertise in PII handling, data privacy compliance, and secure data practices
• Experience integrating third-party identity enrichment data (e.g. Acxiom, LiveRamp, or similar)

Technical Skills

• Identity resolution frameworks and MDM platforms (e.g. Informatica, Reltio, D&B MDM, or custom-built)
• Probabilistic matching: blocking strategies, similarity scoring, ML-assisted entity resolution
• Graph data models for household and relationship mapping
• Data quality tooling and profiling at scale
• SQL, Python, and distributed data processing (Spark, Databricks, or equivalent)

Soft Skills

• Ability to operate independently and make architectural decisions with limited oversight
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can explain a confidence score to a product manager
• Collaborative approach to cross-functional work with engineering, analytics, and vendors

Nice to Have

• Experience in media, telecommunications, or subscription-based product environments
• Familiarity with graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune) for relationship modeling
• Exposure to real-time identity resolution pipelines
• Experience building identity resolution on cloud-native stacks (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Additional Information

We blend in so you stand out. Blend is a data, AI, and technology consultancy that co-creates meaningful impact for our clients — and for the people who build it alongside us. You will work on problems that matter, with a team that leads with expertise and cares about craft.

We offer competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements, and a culture that values deep technical work as much as the human relationships that make it possible.

Ready to build something foundational? Apply now and let us know what you have built.

The salary range for this role is $135,000 - $180,000.  Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs. This position has the possibility of being converted to full time.