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# Principal Engineer (R-19941) at Dun & Bradstreet

- **Company:** Dun & Bradstreet
- **Location:** Warsaw, Poland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/dnb/b4196aec-68e2-4f7d-a6d3-1395471fb2ec

## Job description

Shape the Future with Dun & Bradstreet 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.

Essential responsibilities:

- 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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## #LI-DNI

## About Dun & Bradstreet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dun & Bradstreet provides business decisioning data, analytics, and a global identity layer (the D-U-N‑S Number) to help companies manage risk, accelerate growth, and operationalize trusted context across sales, finance, compliance, and supply chains.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: DNB)
- **Headquarters**: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- **Founded**: 1841
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (historical formation through mergers of Lewis Tappan’s Mercantile Agency and R.G. Dun & Co.)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Information Services, Business Data & Analytics, Credit Risk, Compliance, Supply Chain Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, SMBs, financial institutions, government agencies, procurement and risk teams
- **Mission / purpose**: “Since 1841, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity.” [dnb.com](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/?cachebust=0.17253344090823353)

## Products & Services
- **D&B Data Cloud**: A governed foundation of verified business identity and continuously updated context, used to enrich CRM, ERP, and AI workflows.
- **D-U-N-S® Number**: A free, globally recognized unique business identifier that establishes a credit profile and unlocks access to suppliers, lenders, and government contracts.
- **D&B Commercial Graph**: A governed data layer delivering traceable, auditable business context for analytics and AI.
- **D&B AI Connectors**: Pre-built integrations that deliver decision-ready business insight into Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise tools.
- **D&B MCP Server**: Enables AI agents to connect directly to governed business insight for auditability and reliable execution.
- **Risk & Compliance Solutions**: Third-party onboarding, monitoring, and enhanced due diligence.
- **Sales & Marketing Solutions**: Account-based data, lead scoring, and territory insights.
- **Finance Solutions**: Credit risk assessment, cash flow optimization, and financial signals.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed in search results (publicly traded on NYSE; market cap can be looked up but not provided in the retrieved data).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$2.4B** (latest full fiscal year). Q2 FY2025 (ended June 30, 2025) revenue was **$585.2M** with a net loss of **$33.7M**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Parent company **Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.** (majority shareholder). Other institutional investors not listed in the search results.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: **4,130 employees** (monthly growth +0.2%)
  - Active job postings: **87** (monthly growth +20.8%, quarterly growth +67.3%)
  - Operating in 28 countries, with data covering many more.
  - Recent emphasis on AI connectors and the MCP server to embed verified business context into agentic workflows.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Persistent Identity (D-U-N-S Number)**: A unique, globally recognized business identifier that provides a single source of truth across systems and use cases, creating a strong switching cost.
- **Longevity & Breadth**: Founded in 1841, the company has accumulated decades of business data and relationships, making it one of the most comprehensive business intelligence providers.
- **Governance & Traceability**: Unlike generic data lakes, the D&B Commercial Graph is designed for auditability, compliance, and AI readiness – a differentiator in regulated industries.
- **Wide Ecosystem Integration**: Native connectors to major platforms (Salesforce, SAP, Tableau, etc.) reduce friction for enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as a Context Layer**: Position “verified business context” as the missing link for enterprise AI success, emphasizing governed, traceable data over fragmented inputs.
- **Product Innovation**: Continued development of the MCP Server and AI connectors to enable agentic workflows in procurement, compliance, and sales.
- **Risk & Compliance Expansion**: Deepening capabilities in third-party risk management and enhanced due diligence to meet rising regulatory demands.
- **Data Modernization**: Investing in cloud-native infrastructure and real-time data updates to stay ahead of competitors like Experian and Moody’s.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Rating**: Employer rating of **3.8/5** (2,861 reviews on LinkedIn) with strong marks for work-life balance (4.0) and culture (3.7). Compensation scores 3.6 and career development 3.6. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
- **Work Model**: **Hybrid** – employees typically work on-site **2 days a week** at their Jacksonville HQ or one of 32 global offices. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dun-bradstreet)
- **Notable Perks**:
  - Performance bonuses and employee discounts
  - Adoption assistance, generous parental leave, and family medical leave
  - Dental, health, and FSA benefits
  - Job training, conferences, and customized development tracks
  - Diverse workforce: talent sourced from top companies (IBM, Oracle, Cognizant, Deloitte, etc.)
- **Technical Environment**: Engineering teams work on large-scale data platforms, AI/ML models, and data pipelines. Open roles include Data Scientists, AI Security Engineers, and Principal Systems Engineers.

## Sources
1. [dnb.com – Company Overview](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/?cachebust=0.17253344090823353)
2. [dnb.com – Careers](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/about/careers.html)
3. [jobs.lever.co – Open Positions](https://jobs.lever.co/dnb)
4. [linkedin.com – Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
5. [builtin.com – Culture & Perks](https://builtin.com/company/dun-bradstreet)

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