Senior Architect, Core Platforms – Data & Cloud Leadership

Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Volunteer days

Hybrid model

Employee Health Insurance

Mental Health Support

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Leave

Life Assurance

Educational Assistance Program

Life-Style Account

Job summary

Dun & Bradstreet Ireland is seeking an Architect for Core Platforms to lead the evolution of our data-centric Core platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, data, SRE and architecture teams to translate strategic needs into secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.

This role guides senior engineers, influences architecture and delivery decisions, and ensures designs deliver measurable business value and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of complex, distributed, data-intensive systems.
• Proven hands-on programming depth in one or more enterprise languages (Java, Python, Scala) with production code experience.
• Strong architecture and design experience across cloud-native services and data processing.
• Experience with identity resolution, matching, data mastering or reference-data platforms is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing and multi-region environments (Google Cloud preferred).
• Proficiency with Spark, Hadoop/YARN, Airflow, Kafka/Pulsar, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, IaC, observability, and incident learning.
• Ability to influence across engineering, SRE, product and leadership teams.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for Core platforms, defining scalable, secure designs for high-volume workloads.
• Write and review production-quality code and proofs-of-concept to unblock engineering problems.
• Define technical strategy and roadmaps for platform modernization with stakeholders.
• Identify risks early and drive standards, tooling and practices for long-term maintainability.
• Mentor senior engineers and foster shared ownership and strong design thinking.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD & DevOps

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Hadoop/YARN

Airflow

Kafka/Pulsar

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Snowflake

Databricks

Bigtable

Redis

Job description

Dun & Bradstreet Ireland is seeking an Architect for Core Platforms to lead the evolution of our data-centric Core platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, data, SRE and architecture teams to translate strategic needs into secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.

This role guides senior engineers, influences architecture and delivery decisions, and ensures designs deliver measurable business value and customer outcomes.