Platform Engineer - Palantir

Acrisure; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and PTO

Comprehensive medical benefits

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Acrisure is seeking a hands‑on Platform Engineer to own the Palantir environment, manage ingress/egress, and govern permissions. You will build a reusable component catalog, optimize costs, and lead platform standards with senior technical colleagues.

The role emphasizes senior, internal‑facing work with minimal travel, collaboration with FD Delta/Echo, and direct engagement with Palantir for upgrades and roadmap alignment.

Qualifications

• Deep hands‑on Palantir tenant administration across the platform stack.
• Experience with enterprise integration, ingestion, and data exchange patterns.
• Ability to design reusable platform components and catalogs.

Responsibilities

• Actively configure and operate Palantir tenant settings across the platform stack.
• Design ingress strategy for source systems, connectors, and data flows.
• Design egress strategy including marketplace exports and external API exposure.
• Own the permissions architecture with least-privilege controls.
• Mentor the Platform Engineering team and coordinate with Palantir on upgrades.
• Drive reusable component catalogs and governance standards.

Skills

Palantir platform administration

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

SQL

Platform governance

FinOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, or related business field (optional)

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS/Azure

Job description

Hands‑On Builder, Cost Steward & Component Curator

About Acrisure

Acrisure is a global fintech leader empowering ambitious businesses and individuals with customized solutions that drive growth and impact. We combine cutting‑edge technology with expert human support to deliver tailored insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage services, and more.

Role Summary & Mission

The Platform Engineer – Palantir is the technical owner of Acrisure’s Palantir environment, accountable for the substrate that every Palantir use case is built on. The role orchestrates ingress/egress, marking and permissions architecture, compute and storage cost optimization, release governance, and reusable component catalog, implementing strategy hands‑on. This is a senior, hands‑on internal‑facing role with minimal travel.

Key Responsibilities

Hands‑On Platform Operations

• Actively configure and operate Palantir tenant settings across the platform stack—Projects, Groups, Markings, Roles, Resource Queues, Compute, and product‑level controls—making changes directly in the platform.
• Design and implement the ingress strategy: source system connections, connectors, schema management, and standards for incremental, batch, and streaming data flows.
• Design and implement the egress strategy: Marketplace exports, OSDK and external API exposure, file/data export controls, and downstream consumption boundaries.
• Own the permissions architecture across the platform—marking taxonomy, group hierarchy, role assignments, and least‑privilege standards—and personally maintain the most sensitive configurations.
• Personally triage and resolve platform admin issues—permissions, provisioning, ingress/egress configuration, and resource queue contention—rather than routing them.
• Be a go‑to resource for external teams leveraging the Palantir Platform and escalating questions and issues for resolution.

Componentization & Reusability

• Drive the platform‑wide reusable component catalog—pipeline templates, Ontology patterns, Workshop building blocks, OSDK modules, Marketplace products, reusable agents, and shared utilities.
• Establish standards for what gets componentized, how components are versioned and documented, and how they are discovered and consumed.
• Partner with FD Delta and FD Echo to extract reusable patterns from delivered use cases, promote them into the catalog, and consolidate duplication.
• Maintain a library of platform‑management components—provisioning workflows, permissions templates, audit reports, cost dashboards—that the Platform Engineering team uses to operate the environment efficiently.

Cost & Resource Optimization

• Own end‑to‑end FinOps for the Palantir environment—usage forecasting, compute optimization, build schedule efficiency, storage tiering, and licensing utilization across all platform tools.
• Establish resource quotas, project allocation models, and guardrails across the Platform portfolio to prevent runaway cost while enabling delivery velocity.
• Identify and remediate cost anomalies in real time; partner with Finance on chargeback, showback, and capacity‑based budgeting models.
• Present cost‑to‑value tradeoffs, capacity decisions, and reusability ROI to the CTO and executive sponsors with supporting data, framed in business terms.

Governance, Standards & Team Leadership

• Establish and enforce platform governance standards: branching strategy, environment promotion (dev/staging/prod), release approvals, and change management.
• Drive the Palantir platform security posture in partnership with InfoSec and Data team—marking taxonomy, audit logging, sensitive data handling, and compliance support (SOC 2, NYDFS, GDPR).
• Maintain platform standards documentation and ensure adherence across FD Delta, FD Echo, Platform Engineering, and Palantir FD Team contributions.
• Support the Platform Engineering team through mentorship, technical direction, and standards setting.
• Coordinate directly with Palantir on platform upgrades, feature rollouts, and capability roadmap alignment.

Required Skills & Competencies

Palantir Platform Proficiency (Required)

• Deep hands‑on expertise with Palantir tenant administration across the platform stack.
• Hands‑on experience with ingress patterns—connectors, agent‑based ingestion, source system integration, and pipeline scheduling at enterprise scale.
• Hands‑on experience with egress controls—Marketplace, OSDK external endpoints, data export governance, and external‑facing API exposure.
• Working proficiency across the Palantir product surface—Foundry, AIP, Marketplace, Quiver—and capacity to administer, govern, and componentize each.
• Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and SQL skills—platform engineering written code, not just review.

Componentization & Standards

• Experience building and maintaining shared component libraries, internal developer platforms, or reusable pattern catalogs.
• Strong API design and abstraction instincts—identifying reusable components versus one‑off implementations.
• Documentation and developer‑experience sensibility—complying with discoverability and adoption.

Platform Operations & FinOps

• Experience operating an enterprise data platform at scale—Foundry, Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent.
• Strong FinOps fundamentals—usage forecasting, compute and storage cost optimization, chargeback design, and capacity planning.
• Experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment promotion strategies.

Governance & Security

• Working knowledge of enterprise security and access control patterns—RBAC, ABAC, attribute‑based markings, least privilege, identity federation, SSO.
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, NYDFS, GDPR, HIPAA, or similar regulated environments.
• Comfort partnering with InfoSec, Internal Audit, and Enterprise Architecture peers—translating platform mechanics into required language.

Leadership & Communication

• Notable ability to work effectively within a senior technical team—contributing to direction and standards while executing hands‑on.
• Ability to present platform cost, capacity, reusability, and risk tradeoffs to a CTO/CIO‑level audience and translate technical decisions into business outcomes.
• Strong written communication skills—author governance documents, RFCs, architecture decision records, component specifications, and platform standards.

Experience

• 5–10+ years of experience operating, architecting, and administering enterprise platforms.
• Prior Palantir Foundry administration experience strongly preferred; experience from Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS/Azure‑native enterprise stacks encouraged.
• Prior experience in insurance, financial services, or similarly regulated industries is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Optional: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, or related business field.

Success Metrics / KPIs

• Admin Request SLA Adherence—% of access, provisioning, ingress/egress, and configuration requests fulfilled within committed turnaround targets.
• Cost Efficiency—compute, storage, and licensing cost per active use case trending favorably quarter‑over‑quarter.
• Permissions Hygiene—% of projects, groups, and markings in compliance with least‑privilege standards; reduction in audit findings.
• Ingress / Egress Posture—Zero unauthorized data movement events; 100% of inbound and outbound data flows mapped, classified, and approved.
• Component Catalog Adoption—# of reusable components in the catalog and % of new use cases consuming ≥1 cataloged component.
• Platform Team Throughput—Platform Engineering velocity against capacity plan; reduction in cross‑pod escalations and repeat requests.

Candidate Experience & Workplace Culture

We strive for inclusive job descriptions and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and grow with us. Acrisure believes that diversity of experience leads to innovative solutions and stronger teams.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Generous vacation and paid time off
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits (employee‑paid)
• Company‑paid disability insurance and life insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible spending and commuter benefits
• Parental leave, fertility support, and family benefits
• Career development opportunities and more

Commitment to Inclusion & Accommodation

We are committed to an inclusive workforce and welcome applicants of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodation is provided in accordance with applicable laws. If you require assistance during the application process, please email [e-mail].

Acrisure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.