Job Description
Must have a current NV2 Security Clearance
We’re looking for a talented Data Engineer with hands-on Palantir Foundry experience to join a growing data engineering team delivering scalable, production-grade data solutions.
This is an opportunity to work across the full data lifecycle — from ingestion and transformation through to ontology modelling and operational tooling — while collaborating closely with senior engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
You’ll take ownership of well-defined workstreams, contribute to engineering best practices, and help shape high-quality data products used across the business.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines in Palantir Foundry
- Develop PySpark transformations focused on scalability, performance, and reliability
- Create and manage Ontology objects, links, and actions
- Work with analysts and operational users to support Workshop applications and tooling
- Investigate and resolve pipeline failures and contribute to on-call support rotations
- Participate in code reviews, engineering standards, and documentation
- Mentor and pair with junior engineers to support team capability uplift
Technology Stack
- Palantir Foundry
- Code Repositories
- Pipeline Builder
- Ontology
- Workshop
- PySpark
- Foundry Jupyter Notebooks
- Git-based workflows / global branching
- Data quality monitoring and health checks
What We’re Looking For
- Must have 3–5 years’ experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering
- Must have Commercial experience building production pipelines in Palantir Foundry
- Strong PySpark skills including transformations, partitioning, shuffle/broadcast operations, and performance tuning
- Strong SQL skills across analytical workloads
- Understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball or equivalent)
- Ability to independently own deliverables and work through ambiguity
Nice to Have
- Experience designing Ontologies within Foundry
- Exposure to Workshop, Slate, or Quiver applications
- Streaming technologies experience including Kafka or Foundry Streaming
- Experience with testing and data quality frameworks such as dbt or Great Expectations
Why Apply?
- Work on enterprise-scale data platforms and modern data engineering practices
- Join a collaborative, engineering-led environment with strong technical mentorship
- Opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and engineering patterns
- Exposure to cutting-edge Palantir Foundry implementations
- High-impact role with real ownership and autonomy
If you’re passionate about building reliable data products and want to deepen your expertise in Palantir Foundry, we’d love to hear from you.