Senior Engineer

Dun & Bradstreet; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dun & Bradstreet is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the MDM team and contribute to the D&B Connect platform, a scalable, customer-facing data management solution.

You will translate business requirements into robust software for data cleansing, matching, enrichment, and governance across real-time and batch workloads, with a focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• 8+ years of experience managing and deploying commercial software products.
• Advanced Linux knowledge.
• Strong understanding of triaging data & performance issues and how to resolve them.
• Independent thinker able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven excellence with Java and/or Scala, Python, Spark/PySpark and scripting languages.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives in parallel.
• Proven experience managing solutions on GCP or AWS utilizing a broad set of the services available.
• Proven experience working on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Ownership mindset: proactive, collaborative, and action‑oriented.
• Growth mindset with commitment to learning, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Experience using AI tools to improve development, troubleshooting, automation and productivity.
• SDLC tooling experience with Maven, Github, Jenkins, Terraform

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, distributed software systems and contribute to other projects requiring research and collaboration.
• Design, develop, debug, support, maintain and test software applications.
• Work closely with teams across a wide breadth of applications and solutions.
• Provide consultation to ensure software solutions reflect industry best practices and architectures; pursue professional growth.
• Improve code quality through unit tests, automation and code reviews.
• Plan and execute application modernization, re-platforming and refactoring initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce tech debt.
• Partner with SRE to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.
• Demonstrate customer focus with end-to-end ownership and incident response participation.
• Drive quality through collaboration, automation, and process improvement.
• Leverage AI-enabled development tools to boost productivity and engineering effectiveness.

Skills

Java/Scala

Python

Spark/PySpark

Linux

Distributed systems

AI tools knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

GCP

AWS

Maven

Github

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Our MDM team is seeking a Senior Engineer, to join an established engineering team. You will work on our D&B Connect application, a strategic self-service Master Data Management (MDM) platform that enables customers to cleanse, match, enrich, monitor, and manage their first-party data using D&B's Commercial Graph and D-U-N-S®-anchored data assets. This serves as our primary MDM customer-facing platform, accessed via web UI plus CRM, Marketing and Cloud Data Warehouse integrations with planned support for AI-driven headless access through MCP tools.

The Senior Engineer will work in a scrum team building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. This role will collaborate with business and technical teams to translate business requirements and functional specifications into innovative solutions implementing performant, scalable and maintainable designs.

Team Overview

• Design and evolve enterprise-grade Master Data Management (MDM) platforms powering core business entities (e.g., customers, suppliers, leads, reference data)
• Address challenges in data quality, identity resolution, integration, and governance at scale
• Build highly available, resilient systems that support both real-time and batch workloads across global regions
• Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to transform business needs into scalable technical solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, distributed software systems and work on other projects that require research, awareness, interactivity and the ability to ask the right questions
• Design, develop, debug, support, maintain and test software applications
• Work closely with other teams across a wide breadth of applications and solutions
• Assist SME in providing consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures; and pursue professional growth
• Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Identify, plan and ensure successful incremental execution of application modernization, re-platform and refactoring efforts
• Recognize opportunities for continuous improvement to a technology solution whether it’s optimizing the performance of the system or identifying tech debt
• Partner with SRE team to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Demonstrate strong customer focus and end-to-end ownership of applications, including participation in incident response activities and post-incident reviews when customer-impacting issues occur.
• Proactively improve quality through collaboration, automation, process improvement and innovative thinking
• Leverage AI-enabled development tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, development velocity, and operational efficiency.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields
• 8+ years of experience managing and deploying commercial software products
• Advanced Linux knowledge
• Strong understanding of triaging data & performance issues and how to resolve them while demonstrating a strong sense of urgency
• Independent thinker able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Proven excellence with Java and/or Scala, Python, Spark/PySpark and scripting languages
• Ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives in parallel
• Proven experience managing solutions on GCP or AWS utilizing a broad set of the services available
• Proven experience working on large-scale, distributed systems
• Show an ownership mindset in everything you do; be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action, be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success
• Demonstrated growth mindset with a commitment to continuous learning, professional development, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to improve software development, troubleshooting, automation, and engineering productivity.
• SDLC-tooling experience with Maven, Github, Jenkins, Terraform