Senior Vice President, Global Head of Data Platforms & Engineering (R-18807)

Dun & Bradstreet; Dublin; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Holiday buy & sell

Flexible working - 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 Ireland seeks a Global Head of Data Platforms & Engineering to own the end-to-end strategy, delivery, and operation of enterprise data platforms across public clouds. You will define the multi-year roadmap, establish engineering and SRE practices, and lead a geographically distributed team focused on secure, cost-efficient platforms.

You will partner with Product, Security, Compliance and Finance to ensure data quality, cost effectiveness, and timely value delivery, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year strategy and architecture for enterprise data platforms, balancing build vs. buy and aligning with business priorities.
• Own platform and continuous improvement of availability, performance, reliability, and cost.
• Lead incident, change, release, and problem management processes for data platforms across cloud environments.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, Security and Legal to embed controls and continuously improve data quality.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud platforms

SRE/Production operations

Executive communication

DevOps automation

Data governance

Cost optimization

Multi-cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Vendor management

Data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Databricks

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Job Summary

The Global Head of Data Platforms & Engineering will own the end-to-end strategy, delivery, and operation of our enterprise data platforms—spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and activation—so product, analytics, AI/ML, and business teams can reliably build data-powered experiences at global scale. This executive will define the multi-year platform roadmap, establish world-class engineering and SRE practices, and lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for secure, resilient, cost-efficient data platforms across public cloud(s). This role is accountable for platform availability, reliability, data quality, time to value for new capabilities, and cloud cost efficiency, partnering closely with Product, Security, Compliance, and Finance.

What’s on Offer at D&B Ireland

• 25 days annual leave (plus 2 paid volunteer days & 1 paid un-sick day)
• Holiday buy & sell (the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days per year)
• Flexible working - hybrid model
• Employee Health Insurance
• Mental Health Support program
• Pension Contribution
• Family Friendly Leave (Maternity, Paternity, Parental, Marriage and Bereavement)
• Life Assurance
• Educational Assistance Program
• Life-Style Account (D&B will match your contributions up to €40 per month and can be used to claim for a range of health-related, leisure or lifestyle activities)

Essential Key Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year strategy and architecture for enterprise data platforms (e.g., batch/streaming ingestion, orchestration, data governance, metadata, observability, ML feature stores), balancing build vs. buy and aligning with business priorities.
• Set standards for APIs, schemas, contracts, and data product/platform interoperability, enabling self-serve capabilities for internal builders.
• Institutionalize modern engineering practices to deliver highly available, resilient, observable platforms.
• Own platform and continuous improvement of availability, performance, reliability, and cost. Scope reflects our established platform patterns emphasizing availability, resiliency, and automation.
• Lead incident, change, release, and problem management processes for data platforms across cloud environments (e.g., GCP, AWS), ensuring timely response and communications during major incidents.
• Prioritize and deliver platform capabilities that accelerate product and analytics teams - e.g., real time data, governed sharing and AI/ML enablement.
• Establish and run portfolio governance with clear OKRs, capacity planning, and outcome focused metrics.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, Security and Legal to embed controls and continuously improve data quality through platform level controls and monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and certifications as applicable to business lines.
• Build, lead, and develop a diverse, world class global team. Foster a culture of delivery, learning, motivation and engineering craftsmanship, mentor senior leaders and high potential team members.
• Own the data platform P&L elements.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships; evaluate emerging technologies.
• Maintain strong partnerships with Product, Data & Analytics, AI, Security, Compliance and Finance.
• Serve as the executive voice for our data platforms internally and externally; represent the function in strategy, planning, risk committees, and executive forums.

Essential Skills and/or Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s Degree preferred).
• 15+ years in software/data engineering with 12+ years leading platform or data engineering organizations at scale; proven success operating mission critical, cloud native data platforms and services.
• Demonstrated experience across GCP/AWS/Azure, large scale data processing (batch & streaming), data modeling, governance, security, and observability.
• Track record leading SRE/production ops for data platforms.
• Hands on depth in one or more of: Distributed processing storage (Big Query / Snowflake / Databricks), orchestration, lineage, ML platforms.
• Strong command of modern DevOps automation, and cloud security practices.
• Excellence in Executive communication, stakeholder management, vendor negotiation and demonstrated FinOps leadership.
• Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, or Azure) a highly preferred.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business needs into technical architectures.
• Ability to lead global engineering teams with deep technical expertise.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite skills.
• Able to manage several projects, multitask, and work well under pressure.
• 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.
• Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.
• Where applicable, fluency in English and languages relevant to the working market.
• Willing to travel for the interest of business.

Dun & Bradstreet is an Equal Opportunity Employer