Palantir Foundry Platform Engineer (TS/SCI) – On-Site

JTEC Consulting, LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JTEC Consulting LLC is seeking a Palantir Platform Engineer to integrate Palantir Foundry with complex ETL workflows and AI-augmented data pipelines in Chantilly, VA. A current TS/SCI with polygraph is required, along with U.S. citizenship and 5+ years of data/platform engineering experience.

Role focuses on scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and DevOps practices across production environments to deliver analytics-ready data products.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship.
• Current TS/SCI with agency-specific polygraph required for consideration.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline (equivalent years of direct experience considered in lieu of a degree).
• Mid-Level: 5+ years of data or platform engineering experience with a focus on Palantir Foundry, PySpark/Python ETL development, and data ontology modeling.
• Senior-Level: 8+ years of data engineering or platform architecture experience with advanced architectural design of scalable, distributed pipelines, enterprise ontology systems, and end-to-end platform observability.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills to work as part of a collaborative, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark and Python, integrating external data workflows and conditioning processes into Palantir Foundry
• Design and configure robust data ontologies within Palantir, mapping complex enterprise data relationships to operational digital twins and analytical models
• Connect custom ETL conditioners with native Palantir tooling, implementing telemetry, logging, and monitoring frameworks that give stakeholders real-time visibility across every stage of the transformation lifecycle
• Identify and integrate AI/ML capabilities to augment data pipelines, automating anomaly detection, schema mapping, and pipeline optimization to maximize throughput across massive datasets
• Establish rigorous validation checks, data lineage tracking, and governance frameworks to verify data accuracy, reliability, and security before deployment to analytics consumers
• Prepare and expose validated, high-integrity data products for direct ingestion into advanced analytics, BI, and operational applications
• Apply modern CI/CD and DevOps methodologies to manage release lifecycles, configuration management, and platform stability across production environments
• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, security teams, and operational stakeholders to translate complex business logic into dependable data architecture

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Python

PySpark

Data Ontology

ETL/ELT

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

U.S. citizenship

TS/SCI with agency polygraph

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Python

PySpark

Apache Spark

Job description

JTEC Consulting LLC is seeking a Palantir Platform Engineer to integrate Palantir Foundry with complex ETL workflows and AI-augmented data pipelines in Chantilly, VA. A current TS/SCI with polygraph is required, along with U.S. citizenship and 5+ years of data/platform engineering experience.

Role focuses on scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and DevOps practices across production environments to deliver analytics-ready data products.