Senior Engineer (R-20002)

Dnb
Dublin, Ireland
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior software engineers with experience in large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure who can demonstrate a strong ownership mindset and proficiency in AI tools.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of commercial software product experience and a background in MDM platforms
    — “8+ years of experience managing and deploying commercial software products”
  • Individuals who have worked on global distributed systems with real-time and batch capabilities
    — “Build highly available, resilient systems that support both real-time and batch workloads across global regions”
  • Professionals with a track record of using AI tools to enhance engineering productivity and software quality
    — “Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to improve software development”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of independence and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
    — “Independent thinker able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment”
  • Candidates must be prepared to take ownership of customer-facing applications and participate in incident response
    — “Demonstrate strong customer focus and end-to-end ownership of applications”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with enterprise MDM platforms and large-scale data governance solutions
    — “Design and evolve enterprise-grade Master Data Management (MDM) platforms”
  • Emphasize your ability to modernize and refactor complex systems for performance and scalability
    — “Identify, plan and ensure successful incremental execution of application modernization”
  • Showcase your hands-on work with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS in production environments
    — “Partner with SRE team to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS”
  • Demonstrate a history of improving code quality through automation and code reviews
    — “Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews”
  • Position yourself as a proactive problem solver with a focus on continuous improvement
    — “Proactively improve quality through collaboration, automation, process improvement and innovative thinking”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • developing scalable software systems
  • improving code quality
  • deploying data infrastructure
Typical background
software engineeringcloud computingdata infrastructure

Skills & requirements

Required

JavaScalaPythonSparkLinuxDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsData InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentCode QualityContinuous ImprovementCustomer Focus

Preferred

Ai-enabled Development ToolsMCP ToolsCloud Platforms

Stack & domain

JavaScalaPythonSparkScripting LanguagesLinuxData QualityIdentity ResolutionIntegrationGovernanceCloud PlatformsAi-enabled Development ToolsSdlc-toolingCustomer FocusEnd-to-end OwnershipProactiveCollaborationContinuous LearningProfessional DevelopmentMentoringKnowledge SharingMaster Data ManagementAI

About the role

Original posting from Dnb via Lever

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:

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Develop scalable, distributed software systems and work on other projects that require research, awareness, interactivity and the ability to ask the right questions

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Design, develop, debug, support, maintain and test software applications

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Work closely with other teams across a wide breadth of applications and solutions

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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

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Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews

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Identify, plan and ensure successful incremental execution of application modernization, re-platform and refactoring efforts

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Recognize opportunities for continuous improvement to a technology solution whether it’s optimizing the performance of the system or identifying tech debt

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Partner with SRE team to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS

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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.

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Proactively improve quality through collaboration, automation, process improvement and innovative thinking

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Leverage AI-enabled development tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, development velocity, and operational efficiency.

Key Requirements:

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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

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8+ years of experience managing and deploying commercial software products

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Advanced Linux knowledge

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Strong understanding of triaging data & performance issues and how to resolve them while demonstrating a strong sense of urgency

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Independent thinker able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

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Proven excellence with Java and/or Scala, Python, Spark/PySpark and scripting languages

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Ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives in parallel

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Proven experience managing solutions on GCP or AWS utilizing a broad set of the services available

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Proven experience working on large-scale, distributed systems

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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

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Demonstrated growth mindset with a commitment to continuous learning, professional development, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

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Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to improve software development, troubleshooting, automation, and engineering productivity.

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SDLC-tooling experience with Maven, Github, Jenkins, Terraform

Source: Dnb careers (Lever)

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