Palantir Foundry Lead Engineer

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision benefits

401k

Job summary

CLA is seeking a technical leader to guide Palantir Foundry implementations, drive architecture decisions, and promote engineering standards across projects in Charlotte, NC. You will mentor engineers, own design reviews, and ensure secure, scalable outcomes aligned with business goals.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, production support, and practical delivery of Foundry-based solutions, with a focus on data modeling, integrations, and governance across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Technical Direction and Solution Leadership: Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cross-Project Technical Planning: Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects.
• Production Support and Technical Escalation: Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues.
• Client Service and Communication: Communicate technical options, risks, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to business users, technology teams, vendors, management, and senior leaders.

Skills

Palantir Foundry Leadership

Solution Architecture

Engineering Standards

Application Engineering

Data and Integration

Technical Mentorship

Agentic Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

SQL

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Job description

CLA is seeking a technical leader to guide Palantir Foundry implementations, drive architecture decisions, and promote engineering standards across projects in Charlotte, NC. You will mentor engineers, own design reviews, and ensure secure, scalable outcomes aligned with business goals.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, production support, and practical delivery of Foundry-based solutions, with a focus on data modeling, integrations, and governance across enterprise systems.