Palantir Platform Engineer

US101 Guidehouse Inc.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a data engineer to focus on engineering, building, and maintaining shared platform capabilities within Palantir Foundry. You will develop data pipelines, governance tools, and reusable components to support multiple projects and teams across the DC metro area.

You will review technical approaches, advise on architecture and scalability, and partner with data governance, operations, product, and engineering to translate requirements into practical platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
• Active Secret clearance or the ability to maintain one.
• 3 years of hands-on experience building data, application, workflow, or platform solutions within Palantir Foundry.
• Experience with Foundry tools such as Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Workshop, Slate, Machinery, Ontology, Actions, and Functions.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL and understanding of data pipelines and governance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, build, and maintain shared platform capabilities within Palantir Foundry.
• Develop reusable platform components for multiple projects and teams.
• Create governance, monitoring, logging, and portfolio views to improve visibility and reduce risk.
• Develop automations for governance reviews, data quality checks, and change requests.
• Work with stakeholders to translate requirements into platform solutions and support business development.

Skills

Python

SQL

Foundry

Data pipelines

Governance

Observability

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Code Repositories

Pipeline Builder

Workshop

Slate

Machinery

Ontology

Actions

Functions

Job description

Job Family: Data Engineering & Architecture Consulting Travel Required: None Clearance Required: Active Secret

What You Will Do:

Focus on engineering, building, and maintaining shared platform capabilities, data pipelines, applications, workflows, automations, and governance tools within Palantir Foundry. This role will support multiple projects and applications by improving platform visibility, accelerating governance and product decisions, reducing duplication, and identifying opportunities for reuse and standardization. Create reusable platform capabilities that support multiple projects and application teams. Build governance, monitoring, logging, alerting, and portfolio-level views that improve visibility into platform activity, performance, risks, and dependencies. Develop automations that streamline governance reviews, approvals, product change requests, data quality checks, and other platform processes. Support automated detection and monitoring of sensitive data, including personally identifiable information. Coordinate across projects to identify conflicts, dependencies, duplicated capabilities, and opportunities for reuse. Review technical approaches and provide recommendations related to architecture, scalability, platform standards, and implementation risk. Partner with data governance, operations, product, and engineering teams to translate business and operational needs into practical platform solutions. Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and recommend improvements. Identify data quality and platform issues and advise the client on options to resolve or mitigate them. Develop trusted client relationships and support business development efforts, including proposals, white papers, demonstrations, and capability briefings.

What You Will Need:

ACTIVE and MAINTAINED SECRET Federal or DoD security clearance. Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field. THREE (3) years of hands‑on experience developing data, application, workflow, automation, or platform solutions within Palantir Foundry. Hands‑on experience using Foundry tools such as Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Workshop, Slate, Machinery, Ontology, Actions, and Functions. Strong engineering background with the ability to design, build, review, and improve data pipelines, user interfaces, workflows, automations, and reusable platform capabilities. Understanding of platform governance practices and observability. Experience supporting performance monitoring and operational tooling within Foundry. Experience supporting multiple projects or applications within a shared platform environment. Understanding of relational database concepts and structures. Ability to assess technical solutions and recommend improvements related to reuse, scalability, and platform standards. Strong programming experience using Python and SQL, with experience developing data pipelines, automations, or applications within Palantir Foundry. An acute attention to detail and ability to perform robust data quality checks. Ability to detect data issues affecting the performance of data pipelines and devise techniques for resolving or mitigating them. Ability to support remote, hybrid, and on‑site projects in the DC metro area.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

SIX (6) years’ experience in hands‑on data engineering and/or database management. Strong scripting or programming experience (PySpark preferred). ACTIVE or ability to gain TOP SECRET Federal or DoD security clearance. Experience designing reusable enterprise platform capabilities. Experience building governance, portfolio management, compliance, or operational applications in Foundry. Experience developing platform monitoring, audit logging, automated data quality, or sensitive‑data detection capabilities. Experience advising clients on Palantir architecture, platform governance, and implementation approaches.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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