Data Engineer – Secret Clearance, Palantir Foundry Expert

Guidehouse; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 77,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Engineer to join a team supporting a global IT implementation for the Department of State in Washington, DC. You will review data policies, build pipelines, and develop visualizations to enable data-driven decision-making.

The role requires a SECRET clearance, a Bachelor's degree, and 3 years of hands-on data engineering experience with Palantir Foundry. Nice-to-have skills include Archibus, Kahua, SQL, Python, and dashboards (Tableau/Power BI).

Qualifications

• Active and maintained SECRET clearance is required.
• Bachelor's degree is required for this role.
• Three (3) years’ hands-on data engineering and/or database management experience is required.
• Experience using Palantir Foundry to clean, transform, and integrate complex datasets into production systems (e.g., Archibus).
• Experience reading and cleaning data from external tables and importing it into relational database tables.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data governance documentation, tools, and templates.
• Define data requirements and ensure storage, availability, and coherence of electronically stored information meets the client’s needs.
• Develop data pipelines involving collecting, transforming, cleaning, and validating data from multiple sources, using Palantir Foundry.
• Coordinate with non-technical users to gather requirements.
• Identify, summarize, and catalog data fidelity issues, and make recommendations to resolve or mitigate issues.
• Request, document, report, and analyze data, and create tools/resources to support data and reporting.

Skills

Data engineering

Database management

Palantir Foundry

SQL

Python

Tableau/Power BI

Data wrangling

Dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Archibus

Kahua

Relational databases

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Engineer to join a team supporting a global IT implementation for the Department of State in Washington, DC. You will review data policies, build pipelines, and develop visualizations to enable data-driven decision-making.

The role requires a SECRET clearance, a Bachelor's degree, and 3 years of hands-on data engineering experience with Palantir Foundry. Nice-to-have skills include Archibus, Kahua, SQL, Python, and dashboards (Tableau/Power BI).