Lead Palantir Application Engineer

CliftonLarsonAllen; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (medical, dental, visi

401(k) and wellness program

Job summary

CliftonLarsonAllen seeks a senior technical leader to drive Palantir Foundry initiatives, guide architecture decisions, and mentor engineers in a secure, scalable environment. You will shape engineering standards and lead cross-team collaboration across complex enterprise platforms.

The role emphasizes design reviews, production reliability, and proactive client communication with senior stakeholders while advancing Foundry capabilities and patterns within our services.

Qualifications

• Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions.
• Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts.
• Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred.
• Agentic development experience.
• Travel: <10% travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications.
• Guide Foundry capabilities usage and ensure consistent deployment patterns across teams.
• Review complex designs and code, identify risks, and ensure alignment with business goals and supportability.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers to raise team capability.
• Identify dependencies and cross-team impacts; align delivery with project priorities.
• Serve as escalation point for production issues and drive root-cause analysis.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Solution design

Technical direction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

SQL

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Job description

How You'll Create Opportunities in This Role

• Technical Direction and Solution Leadership: Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities. Define implementation approaches, guide architecture decisions, and ensure solutions are built with appropriate security, reliability, maintainability, and performance considerations.

• Engineering Standards and Patterns: Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications across project teams.

• Foundry Platform Enablement: Guide the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns. Help teams apply these capabilities consistently and appropriately.

• Design Reviews and Quality Oversight: Review complex designs and code, identify technical risks, challenge weak implementation approaches, and ensure applications are built to meet business goals and long-term support expectations.

• Mentorship and Team Development: Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers. Help raise the team's capability by sharing knowledge, reviewing work, and supporting consistent engineering practices.

• Cross-Project Technical Planning: Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects. Partner with product owners, architects, and managers to align technical delivery with project and portfolio priorities.

• Production Support and Technical Escalation: Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues. Lead root-cause analysis, recommend durable fixes, and help improve monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness.

• Client Service and Communication: Communicate technical options, risks, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to business users, technology teams, vendors, management, and senior leaders.

Technical Competencies

• Palantir Foundry Leadership: Guide application teams in the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns.

• Solution Architecture: Lead solution design for complex applications, integrations, workflows, and data models. Identify technical risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend practical approaches that can be supported over time.

• Engineering Standards: Establish and reinforce standards for code quality, testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational support across Foundry application teams.

• Application Engineering: Develop and review maintainable solutions using modern engineering practices and technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, APIs, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD concepts.

• Data and Integration: Guide data modeling, transformation, integration, data quality, and connection patterns for enterprise systems, files, databases, APIs, and Foundry-based solutions.

• Technical Mentorship: Coach engineers through design decisions, implementation challenges, code reviews, troubleshooting, and adoption of consistent engineering practices.

• Agentic Development: Experience using different LLMs. Knowledge of different models, experience working with MCP, and familiarity with different agentic coding frameworks.

What You Will Need

• Experience: 5 years relevant experience required. 8 years of relevant experience preferred.

• Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions preferred

• Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts preferred

• Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices preferred

• Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred.

• Agentic development experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Certifications/Licenses: None required.

• Travel: This position requires <10% travel.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Wellness at CLA

• To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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