Principal Engineer

Dun & Bradstreet; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Dun & Bradstreet in Warszawa is seeking a Principal Architect to own and evolve the Target Architecture across Products, Data, Data Supply Chain and Corporate Systems, guiding modernization and platform rationalization.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape roadmaps, and ensure architectural decisions drive measurable business and customer value while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data and Analytics teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise or domain architecture experience with distributed, data-intensive systems.
• Ability to challenge designs and drive delivery-aligned architectural decisions.
• Experience with cloud transformation, governance and multi-region environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration across Product, Engineering, Data and Security.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate target architecture strategy and roadmaps for platform modernization.
• Align technology initiatives with business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish standards, governance and patterns.
• Mentor senior engineers and foster ownership and design thinking.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud architecture

AI and analytics

Communication

Problem solving

Ownership mindset

English fluency

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Snowflake

Databricks

Elasticsearch

CI/CD tooling

Job description

At Dun & Bradstreet, we believe data has the power to create a better tomorrow. As a global leader in business decisioning data and analytics, we help companies worldwide grow, manage risk, and innovate. Since 1841, businesses have trusted us to turn uncertainty into opportunity. We’re a diverse, global team that values creativity, collaboration, and bold ideas. Are you ready to make an impact and help shape what’s next? Join us! Explore opportunities at dnb.com/careers.

The Principal Architect, is responsible for owning and evolving D&B's Target Architecture across Products, Data, Data Supply Chain and Corporate Systems.

Driving technology modernization, consolidation and strategic transformation through architecture roadmaps and standards and acting as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, ensuring investments align with long-term business and technology objectives.

This role will guide senior engineers, influence architecture and delivery decisions, and ensure that technical designs are grounded in operational reality, customer value and measurable outcomes.

• Define and communicate target architecture strategy and roadmaps for platform modernization, consolidation and platform rationalization.
• Align technology initiatives with business priorities.
• Provide architectural leadership, guide solution design and key technology decisions. Lead architecture reviews, define standard and governance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and adoption opportunities and share these with leadership.
• Support data, analytics, AI and automation initiatives.
• Promote scalable secure and reusable architecture patterns. Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security and Business teams.
• Communicate and align architectural direction with measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, foster strong design thinking and shared ownership, and help build a culture that balances customer focus, engineering excellence and pragmatic delivery.

Essential skills and/or certifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline,
• 12+ years of Enterprise, Solution development or Domain Architecture experience, including significant ownership of complex, distributed, data-intensive systems.
• Strong technical depth and practical engineering experience, with the ability to challenge designs, evaluate implementation trade-offs, participate meaningfully in design and code reviews where appropriate, and ensure architectural direction is grounded in delivery and operational reality.
• Experience with technology transformation and governance.
• In-depth understanding of cloud architecture and operations in secure, resilient and multi-region environments. Experience with Google Cloud is advantageous, alongside the ability to work across a diverse enterprise technology landscape.
• Strong understanding of AI, analytics and modern engineering practices
• Strong understanding of cloud, integration, data, application and platform architectures, including modern API, event-driven and distributed-system patterns.
• Experience architecting complex, distributed and data-intensive platforms using modern cloud, data processing, integration, messaging, analytics and information-management technologies. Experience with relevant technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Databricks, Elasticsearch or equivalent platforms is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, secure coding, observability, incident learning and operational readiness.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite skills
• 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.

Pursuant to Polish pay transparency requirements, candidates will receive information about remuneration for this position at the appropriate stage of the recruitment process and before employment is established. Actual compensation decisions for base salary and other compensation will be dependent upon a wide range of factors including but not limited to: an individual’s skill sets, experience, qualification, training, education, location, and any other legally permissible factors. Successful applicants will also be eligible for D&B’s benefit package.

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