DoD Palantir Foundry Engineer — Data Pipelines

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Holidays

Sick Time

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a Palantir Developer to support the DoD by designing, building, and operating data solutions in the Vantage platform, leveraging Palantir Foundry to enable authoritative, decision-grade financial and operational insights.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience engineering scalable data solutions in secure federal cloud environments and working with financial, budgetary, and execution data.

Qualifications

• ACTIVE and MAINTAINED SECRET clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years data engineering or software development experience.
• Palantir Foundry experience.
• Python, SQL, PySpark and Spark processing experience.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry data pipelines, lineage, and transforms.
• Experience with Databricks and relational stores (Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server).
• Familiarity with DoD Advana/Vantage integrations is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Workshop Modules in Palantir Foundry.
• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines ingesting and transforming data from DoD sources.
• Engineer data models, Delta tables, and datasets for financial reporting and analytics.
• Develop and deploy Foundry pipelines and data products with traceability and repeatable workflows.
• Implement CI/CD and version-controlled data engineering workflows with Git-based repos.
• Build cloud-native solutions in secure AWS and Azure environments for IL4/IL5 architectures.
• Collaborate with SMEs, financial analysts, engineers, and governance teams on data standards.
• Implement data quality, validation, reconciliation, and monitoring for accuracy and auditability.
• Support data modernization and migration, onboarding legacy systems to Databricks and Foundry.
• Troubleshoot production issues ensuring high availability and reliability.

Skills

Security clearance

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Workshop

Databricks

Python

SQL

PySpark

Spark

AWS/Azure security

Job description

Guidehouse seeks a Palantir Developer to support the DoD by designing, building, and operating data solutions in the Vantage platform, leveraging Palantir Foundry to enable authoritative, decision-grade financial and operational insights.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience engineering scalable data solutions in secure federal cloud environments and working with financial, budgetary, and execution data.