Lead Palantir Application Engineer

CliftonLarsonAllen; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking a senior technical leader to drive Palantir Foundry projects across teams. You will shape architecture, promote engineering standards, and enable platform capabilities with strong design reviews and scalable patterns.

You will mentor engineers, manage cross-project dependencies, and function as a technical escalation point for complex production issues, while communicating options and risks to business and technology stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5 years relevant experience required; 8 years 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.
• Bachelor's degree required; combination of relevant experience may be accepted.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and solution leadership for Palantir Foundry applications and platforms.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, testing expectations, and documentation.
• Guide Foundry Platform enablement across project teams and ensure consistent deployment patterns.
• Lead design reviews, identify risks, and ensure long-term supportability.
• Mentor engineers and raise team capability through coaching and code reviews.
• Plan cross-project dependencies, manage technical debt, and align with product priorities.
• Serve as escalation point for production issues and drive root-cause analysis.
• Communicate technical options and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Cross-team communication

Problem solving

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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