Foundry Platform Lead: Palantir Data Architecture

Ontologize, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Foundry Engineering Lead to act as the technical authority for our Foundry implementation, shaping architecture, data pipelines, and governance. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and drive the technical roadmap as the platform scales.

You will collaborate with Operations, Platform Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver reliable, scalable data products and ensure data quality and security across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise including ontology modelling and large-scale platform design.
• Proven track record in technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentoring engineers.
• Strong Python proficiency with data engineering frameworks (Spark, PySpark, Dask, pandas) for large datasets.
• Experience with API-driven data integration (REST, GraphQL) and Git-based workflows with CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of Nscale's Foundry implementation for scalability and data integrity.
• Define technical strategy for Foundry development aligned with business objectives.
• Act as the technical authority across the organization, setting standards and evolving the platform.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure best practices in data modelling, pipelines, and integration.
• Mentor engineers and analysts, raising technical capability and quality.
• Build scalable data pipelines ingesting data from infrastructure, platform services, and business systems.
• Define data models, schemas, and ontology structures to support workflows and use cases.
• Create a digital twin of Nscale by cleaning, transforming, and structuring data.
• Implement data security, permissions, and governance for Foundry.
• Develop trusted datasets and metrics powering internal tools and customer-facing insights.
• Enable self-service analytics with clear data contracts and semantic layers.
• Translate business questions into robust data solutions with Product and Commercial teams.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting for data correctness and availability.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Foundry data modelling

Data architecture

Python

Spark

PySpark

Dask

pandas

REST API

GraphQL API

Git

CI/CD

Mentoring

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Python

Spark

PySpark

Dask

pandas

REST API

GraphQL API

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Foundry Engineering Lead to act as the technical authority for our Foundry implementation, shaping architecture, data pipelines, and governance. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and drive the technical roadmap as the platform scales.

You will collaborate with Operations, Platform Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver reliable, scalable data products and ensure data quality and security across the organisation.