Palantir Platform Engineer

Guidehouse; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Mobility Stipend

Career development & learning

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a data engineering expert to build platform capabilities within Palantir Foundry, advancing governance and data quality. You will create scalable pipelines, automate reviews, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to meet security and operational needs.

You will support remote, hybrid, and on-site work in the DC metro area, handling multiple projects and safeguarding sensitive data with a strong engineering mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 3+ years hands-on with data, apps, workflows, or platform solutions in Foundry.
• Strong Python and SQL programming for data pipelines and automations.
• Experience with platform governance and observability practices.
• Ability to work across projects and translate requirements into platform solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop reusable platform capabilities and governance tools across multiple projects.
• Build monitoring, logging, and portfolio views for visibility into activity and risks.
• Automate governance reviews, data quality checks, and change requests.
• Support detection of sensitive data and ensure data quality across pipelines.
• Collaborate with governance, operations, product, and engineering teams to gather requirements.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Code Repositories

Pipeline Builder

Workshop

Slate

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

About Guidehouse

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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