Palantir Engineer - Forward Deployed

Decho Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open, low-ego culture

Weekly company sessions

Vibrant engineering community

Regular socials

Job summary

Decho Group, based in Greater London, is seeking a Senior Managing Engineer - Forward Deployed to lead client engagements and drive complex data solutions. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical mastery in programming languages like Python and TypeScript, experience with Palantir technologies, and exceptional client relationship management skills. You will operate with high ownership, influence strategic outcomes, and foster an open company culture that values diversity and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in managing complex client relationships and delivering strategic outcomes.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages including Python and TypeScript.
• Familiarity with Palantir technologies and data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of client problem discovery and business analysis.
• Lead deployment teams for end-to-end delivery and client advisory.
• Integrate AI workflows into existing applications.

Skills

Client relationship management

Complex problem-solving

Data engineering principles

Python

SQL

TypeScript

REACT

Emotional intelligence (EQ)

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP Logic Functions

AIP Analysts

AIFDE

Job description

Decho is a deep data and AI consultancy founded on an innate desire to create real-world change. We are consulting engineers with a purpose, offering a ‘boots on the ground’ approach to complex public and private sector challenges. As a trusted Palantir partner and part of Accenture, Decho helps clients to extract the most value from their technology.

Being part of Decho means working at the cutting edge of Palantir technology and harnessing its capabilities with purpose. Our teams are united in their mission to be drivers of positive change in the world’s most influential organisations. This includes strengthening our advantage in the defence, infrastructure and public safety - empowering more public and private institutions to unlock their full potential.

The Role

As a Senior Managing Engineer - Forward Deployed, you will operate with high individual, team(s) and client(s) ownership. You will be accountable for the strategy across your deployed client engagement(s). Leading engineers who design solutions that unify complex data landscapes, build workflows that drive smarter decisions and partner with organisations to deliver sustainable transformation. Working directly with your clients, you will be the face of Decho, requiring a unique blend of high emotional intelligence (EQ) and technical mastery to navigate complex environments and drive programme outcomes. You and your deployment(s) will have creative freedom to architect solutions, working iteratively to build fast, demonstrate work to clients and refine it based on real-time feedback.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Delivery: Take full ownership of client problem set discovery and business analysis. Accountable for strategic advisory, programme design, horizon mapping and change management. Significant ownership of enduring and successful relationships with clients
• End-to-End Delivery: Lead your deployment team(s) to drive significant overarching ownership of client problems, handling everything from deep data engineering knowing that may require low/no code Palantir Foundry tooling, or Python and PySpark code repos - to building user-facing front-end applications and widgets in TypeScript or REACT
• Lead Client Advisory: Sit directly alongside clients, goals and requirements and translate complex technical language into stakeholder appropriate communication
• AI Integration: Actively embed AI workflows into existing applications using cutting-edge tools like AIP Logic Functions, AIP Analysts, and AIFDE
• Decho Labs Innovation: Contribute to Decho Labs to build tangible internal products. Feed your deployment learnings back into the company so our engineers learn from our success and we create compounding assets of value internally and for our clients
• Innate Collaboration: Strategic overview and delivery of deployment(s) driving engineers across self-assignment of taskings, participation in our "show and tell" culture through teachbacks and tech reviews and uplift colleagues and wider Decho community through our highly active internal support channels

What We Are Looking For

• Strategic mindset: Demonstrate an exceptional level of client relationship management alignment to high level decision making individuals, alongside your technical understanding and natural leadership
• Problem Solvers: You navigate complex and nuanced client environments at ease. We care more about your ability to drive strategic outcomes across complex use cases and architectural solutions than rote memorising of coding syntax
• Expert in multiple core languages (Python, SQL, TypeScript and/or REACT) and the capability to understand others. You are an expert across complex data engineering principles, ETL pipelines and application development, setting standards and creating lasting solutions
• Experience and/or familiarity with Palantir (Foundry, Gotham, or AIP similar)
• High EQ & Curiosity: Provide key oversight to Senior Leadership, demonstrate the emotional intelligence to design and drive client strategy, a highly proactive self-starting nature and the humility to know you don't know everything and search for and accept help
• Leading from the front: You define Quality Assurance across deployment output and complex environments
• Impact-Driven Communication: Accountable for deployment(s) capability to present impressive demos, simplify complexity for non-technical users and focus on delivering genuine client impact across multiple engagements

Life at Decho

We foster an open, low-ego culture built on merit, where professional strides are formalised through weekly all company sessions. All levels of our business are highly visible and accessible to everyone. We have a vibrant engineering community that connects through regular socials and interest‑based Slack communities, creating opportunities to learn from one another and share what we love outside of work.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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