Principal Data Engineer: Foundry & Data Lead Remote

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Melbourne (FL); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

health and disability insurance

401(k) match

flexible spending accounts

EAP

education assistance

parental leave

paid time off

company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead enterprise data architecture and pipeline initiatives in Melbourne, FL or remote. You will shape data schemas, governance, and the semantic layer for the Unified Data Layer across the organization.

The role emphasizes Palantir Foundry integration, data modeling, and scalable ETL/ELT design, with collaboration across development teams and a focus on data quality, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years Palantir experience or 10 years with a graduate degree; in lieu of degree, 16 years Palantir experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a data architect or in a senior data engineering role, ideally supporting enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms.
• 4+ years of experience with Data Pipeline development or ETL tools such as Palantir Foundry, Azure Data Factory, SSIS or Python.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight for the company’s data platform and related initiatives, ensuring alignment with company standards and best practices.
• Assist development initiatives with design reviews, offering guidance on architecture and data modeling.
• Lead design reviews for proposed solutions, including data sourcing, data pipelines, data models, and ontology resources, providing actionable feedback to enhance design scalability.
• Assist and develop architectural artifacts, perform requirements decomposition, and develop other documentation to support the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Support the SDLC process by participating in data architecture review sessions, reviewing proposed solutions for compliance with architectural standards.
• Oversee and provide guidance for data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reusability, and performance.
• Utilize Palantir Foundry to perform data integration and ontology management to support big data analytics at scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data governance, metadata, and ontology standards, ensuring consistency and clarity across the data platform and enterprise.
• Remain current with emerging data technologies and frameworks to recommend improvements to the data platform architecture.

Skills

Data architecture

Data pipeline development

ETL tools

Palantir Foundry

PySpark / Spark SQL

Python

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Education

Bachelor’s Degree + 12+ Palantir years or Graduate Degree + 10+ Palantir years

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Azure Data Factory

SSIS

Python

Databricks

Job description

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead enterprise data architecture and pipeline initiatives in Melbourne, FL or remote. You will shape data schemas, governance, and the semantic layer for the Unified Data Layer across the organization.

The role emphasizes Palantir Foundry integration, data modeling, and scalable ETL/ELT design, with collaboration across development teams and a focus on data quality, security, and performance.