Senior Architect, Core Platforms — Hybrid

Dnb; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Holiday buy & sell

Hybrid model

Employee Health Insurance

Mental Health Support program

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Leave

Life Assurance

Educational Assistance Program

Life-Style Account

Job summary

Dun & Bradstreet in Dublin seeks an Architect, Core Platforms to lead the evolution of core platforms delivering trusted commercial data to customer-facing products and internal consumers. You will partner with engineering, product, data, SRE and architecture teams to translate strategic needs into secure, scalable solutions.

You will guide senior engineers, influence architecture and delivery decisions, and ensure designs deliver measurable business value while maintaining operational realism

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline as a minimum requirement.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on programming depth in Java, Python or Scala and production delivery pipelines.
• Experience with cloud-native services, data quality, latency, observability and cost optimization.
• Experience delivering high-volume APIs and data-processing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for core platforms and scalable, secure designs for identity resolution and data processing.
• Write and review production-quality code, create reference implementations and proofs-of-concept.
• Define technical strategy and roadmaps for platform modernization with stakeholders.
• Identify risks and trade-offs across reliability, latency, and cost; drive standards and tooling.
• Mentor senior engineers and foster design thinking and ownership.

Skills

Java

Python

Scala

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Data-intensive systems

Leadership

Security

Performance optimization

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

10+ years of professional software engineering experience

Tools

Spark

Hadoop/YARN

Airflow

Bigtable

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka/Pulsar

CI/CD tools

Terraform / IaC

Job description

Dun & Bradstreet in Dublin seeks an Architect, Core Platforms to lead the evolution of core platforms delivering trusted commercial data to customer-facing products and internal consumers. You will partner with engineering, product, data, SRE and architecture teams to translate strategic needs into secure, scalable solutions.

You will guide senior engineers, influence architecture and delivery decisions, and ensure designs deliver measurable business value while maintaining operational realism