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 of 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.
