Data Engineer

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Location : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Job Type : Full time, Permanent

Working arrangement : Hybrid – 2 days in office per week.

At QS, we believe that work should empower you. That’s why we foster a flexible working environment that encourages every employee to own their career while thriving personally and professionally. Our company values underpin everything we do – we collaborate, respect and support each other. It’s our mission to empower motivated people around the world to fulfil their potential through higher education, ensuring that everyone has access to opportunities that change lives.

As a Data Engineer, you will play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining the data pipelines, APIs, and services at the heart of QS Cerebrum and our enterprise analytics and AI platforms. Your work will enable innovative, data‑driven decision‑making across the organization, helping to unlock insights that support learners, institutions and our global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Data Engineering team, where you’ll work on ELT / ETL pipelines, data transformations, API delivery, and knowledge graph enrichment.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines, including integrating real‑time and streaming data to support dynamic business needs.
• Build and optimise data transformations, ensuring that data quality and lineage are consistently embedded throughout all processes.
• Contribute to the design and development of core data models and structures for our data lakehouses and marts, implementing and adhering to architectural best practices.
• Develop and maintain APIs and delivery mechanisms to serve both internal and external consumers, ensuring reliable and scalable data access.
• Support knowledge graph enrichment by modelling relationships, performing entity resolution, and integrating vector search to enhance data connectivity and insights.
• Apply business acumen to effectively interpret data requirements, ensuring that technical solutions align with the underlying business purpose and add measurable value.
• Implement data quality tests, data contracts, and schema management to maintain high standards of data integrity and consistency.
• Document pipelines and workflows, contributing to comprehensive metadata and lineage documentation for transparency and ongoing improvement.
• Any other duties that fall within the purpose and scope of the role, including tasks that may arise outside of standard business hours.

Key Skills and Experience

QS is the world leader in higher education services, analytics, insights and intelligence. From consultancy to student mobility, academic partnerships to branding solutions, our services power both institutional and individual success. We’re behind the world’s most widely read university rankings (Meltwater 2023). Our QS World University Rankings® reach hundreds of millions, shaping decisions and guiding futures. Since launching in 1990, our impact and influence have only grown. Today, we work with more than 2,000 of the world’s leading higher education institutions, over 12,000 employers, and governments seeking change and socioeconomic development through higher education.

Join QS and you’ll join an 800‑strong community of problem‑solvers, creators, collaborators and change‑makers based in 40+ countries and 11 international offices, including Australia, Malaysia, India, Romania, Singapore, France, Germany, the USA and our headquarters in London. With every talented new hire, business acquisition and bold initiative, we’re strengthening our reach and delivering even greater value to institutions and learners worldwide. Are you ready to shape the future of higher education?

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Equal opportunities

QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive.

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