Senior Specialist – Data Engineering - Databricks / Palantir Foundry

Cricket Wireless LLC.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Senior Specialist to lead enterprise platform solutions built on Palantir Foundry, guiding end-to-end delivery from business requirements through production deployment. You will collaborate with data teams, architects, engineers, and partners to deliver scalable, governed, and business-aligned solutions.

The role requires deep Palantir Foundry expertise, strong solution delivery, data engineering, and stakeholder management, with the ability to drive technical decisions and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years across enterprise platforms, delivery, integration, data engineering, or technology consulting.
• Hands-on Palantir Foundry experience including ontology, workflows, governance, and large-scale delivery.
• Experience leading complex platform initiatives with multiple stakeholders/workstreams.
• Strong understanding of integrations, APIs, workflow platforms, modern app architecture, and cloud solutions.
• Experience with ETL/ELT, data modeling, governance, lineage, and data quality.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Ability to independently lead high-visibility initiatives with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform capabilities from requirements through deployment and adoption.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning data, workflow, reporting, and integration capabilities.
• Define data requirements, governance structures, and operating models with stakeholders.
• Guide development teams on platform best practices, reusable design patterns, and scalable solutions.
• Support workflow automation, governance, lineage, and security implementations.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, decisions, and status updates for leadership.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline

Tools

Palantir Foundry

ServiceNow

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Specialist to lead the design, delivery, integration, and evolution of enterprise platform solutions built on Palantir Foundry and connected enterprise technologies. This role is intended for a technically strong individual contributor who can independently own strategic platform initiatives from business requirements through production deployment. The individual will work across business stakeholders, data teams, architects, developers, platform teams, and external partners to deliver scalable, governed, and business-aligned solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep Palantir Foundry expertise with strong solution delivery, integration, data engineering, and stakeholder management experience. The individual should be comfortable driving technical decisions, influencing cross-functional teams, resolving complex delivery challenges, and presenting recommendations and progress to senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Ownership & Solution Delivery

Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform capabilities from requirements through deployment and operational adoption. Drive alignment between business objectives, technical architecture, solution design, and delivery execution. Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning data, workflow, application, reporting, and integration capabilities. Identify dependencies, risks, technical challenges, and execution constraints and drive resolution. Ensure delivered solutions meet requirements for scalability, governance, performance, and supportability. Provide technical leadership across developers, engineers, architects, platform teams, and delivery partners to ensure successful execution of platform capabilities. Review and challenge technical designs, implementation approaches, estimates, and solution recommendations to ensure alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards. Act as the primary owner for delivery outcomes across assigned platform workstreams.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational processes, business priorities, and transformation objectives. Facilitate requirements workshops, solution discussions, and process reviews. Translate business needs into functional specifications, technical requirements, process flows, and user stories. Drive stakeholder alignment and manage competing priorities across multiple teams. Serve as a trusted advisor between business and technology organizations. Partner with enterprise data, governance, architecture, and business stakeholders to define data requirements, solution priorities, and operating models.

Palantir Foundry Solution Leadership

Lead ontology-led solution design and implementation within Palantir Foundry. Define object models, relationships, workflows, actions, permissions, data products, and governance structures. Guide development teams on platform best practices, reusable design patterns, and scalable solution approaches. Support workflow automation, operational write-back, lineage management, security, and governance implementation. Drive platform adoption through efficient and business-focused solution delivery.

Data Engineering & Integration Leadership

Define and oversee integration approaches across enterprise applications, workflow platforms, reporting systems, and data sources. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, access control, and observability standards. Review architecture decisions, API designs, data mappings, and integration patterns. Drive resolution of platform performance, scalability, and reliability challenges. Ensure data solutions support business processes, analytics, and operational decision-making.

Technical Governance & Execution

Drive delivery governance across design, development, testing, deployment, and production support activities. Validate solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation approaches. Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards. Support roadmap planning, release readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. Promote engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and implementation consistency.

Executive Communication

Develop clear executive-ready presentations, decision documents, solution proposals, and status updates. Present technical solutions, architecture decisions, delivery progress, business impacts, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior leadership and executive stakeholders. Translate technical concepts into business-relevant insights and outcomes. Support governance forums, operating reviews, and strategic planning discussions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.


• 10+ years of experience across enterprise platforms, solution delivery, systems integration, data engineering, digital transformation, or technology consulting.


• Strong hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, including ontology architecture, object models, workflows, operational write-back, governance, lineage, and enterprise-scale solution delivery.


• Experience leading complex platform initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.


• Strong understanding of integrations, APIs, workflow platforms, modern application architecture, and cloud-based solutions.


• Experience with data engineering concepts including ETL/ELT, data modeling, data governance, lineage, quality, and enterprise data platforms.


• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.


• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.


• Ability to independently lead high-visibility initiatives with minimal oversight.

Preferred Experience

• Palantir Foundry ontology architecture, workflows, applications, operational write-back, governance, lineage, and production support.


• Enterprise workflow platforms such as ServiceNow or similar technologies.


• Operations, procurement, supplier management, finance, billing, reporting, controls, governance, or transformation environments.


• Executive reporting, KPI frameworks, analytics solutions, and performance dashboards.


• AI-enabled workflows, business process automation, decision-support solutions, or intelligent operational platforms.

What Success Looks Like

• Successful delivery of scalable enterprise platform capabilities that enable measurable business outcomes.


• Trusted ownership of platform workstreams with minimal leadership intervention.


• Strong collaboration across business, engineering, architecture, and platform teams.


• High-quality solutions that improve operational efficiency, governance, reporting, and decision-making.


• Effective communication of technical and business outcomes to senior leadership.


• Adoption of sustainable, governed, and scalable platform capabilities that support long-term transformation objectives.

Weekly Hours

40 Time Type: Regular Location: Gurgaon, India

Equal Opportunity Statement

AT&T and its subsidiaries are committed to equal employment opportunity. All hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions remain merit-based and free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.

Company Overview

We are pioneers of making connections and have been ever since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and founded our company. That was nearly 150 years ago, and we haven’t stopped innovating since. At our core, we help bring families, communities, and businesses together with the products and services they need to thrive every day. From the widespread and growing availability of 5G and Fiber to working on things we once only dreamed of—at AT&T, we create connections that change the world.