Architect, Core Platforms (R-19675)
Dun & Bradstreet2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership for core platforms supporting identity resolution, data processing, publishing, and integration workloads.
- Define scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective architectures for high-volume systems.
- Write and review production-quality code and create reference implementations and proof-of-concepts.
- Unblock complex engineering problems and help teams translate architecture into working software.
- Define technical strategy and modernization roadmaps in partnership with product, data, SRE, and engineering stakeholders.
- Evaluate reliability, scalability, latency, consistency, delivery, data-quality, operational, and cost trade-offs.
- Drive standards, tooling, and engineering practices that improve long-term maintainability.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and foster shared ownership and design excellence.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant ownership of complex, distributed, data-intensive systems.
- Hands-on programming depth in one or more enterprise languages such as Java, Python, or Scala.
- Strong architecture experience with cloud-native services, distributed systems, event-driven and batch processing, data quality, observability, resiliency, and cost optimization.
- Experience delivering high-volume transactional APIs and large-scale batch or data-processing platforms.
- Experience with identity resolution, matching, entity resolution, data mastering, or reference-data platforms is highly desirable.
- In-depth cloud computing and multi-region cloud-operations experience; Google Cloud experience is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with platform technologies such as Spark, Hadoop/YARN, Airflow, Bigtable, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, or Pulsar.
- Understanding of modern software delivery, automated testing, infrastructure as code, secure coding, observability, incident learning, and operational readiness.
- Ability to evaluate legacy and modern technology trade-offs and guide migrations or consolidations.
- Ability to collaborate with and influence engineering, SRE, product, data, architecture, and senior leadership groups.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and, where applicable, English and relevant local-market languages.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus two paid volunteer days and one paid un-sick day.
- Option to buy or sell up to five additional annual-leave days.
- Flexible hybrid working model in Ireland.
- Employee health insurance, mental health support, pension contribution, and life assurance.
- Family-friendly maternity, paternity, parental, marriage, and bereavement leave.
- Educational assistance program and a lifestyle account with employer matching of up to €40 per month.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkDatabricksElasticsearchGoogle CloudJavaPythonRedisScalaSnowflakeYarn
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet builds data and analytics products that help companies assess credit, manage third‑party risk and compliance, and find customers. Its Data Cloud, business credit reports, D‑U‑N‑S Number identity, and APIs are sold as subscriptions and software to finance, procurement, and go‑to‑market teams. Founded in 1841, the company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: DNB).