Senior Data Engineer (DoD Secret) – Palantir Foundry

INTELLITECH LLC; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

INTELLITECH LLC is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with Active DoD Secret clearance to build scalable data pipelines and analytics workflows in secure federal environments. You will integrate enterprise data sources, enable reporting, and support visualization on BI platforms.

The role requires hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry, and collaboration across engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver data products that support mission-critical decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience building or supporting data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data integration solutions in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
• Experience with modern analytics, BI, or data platform tools such as Databricks and Palantir.
• Experience supporting reporting, analytics, dashboards, or data visualization use cases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, validate, and operationalize data from a variety of enterprise sources.
• Build and support data integration workflows across structured and unstructured data sources, including APIs, files, cloud storage, databases, and enterprise platforms.
• Enable analytics and reporting by preparing curated datasets and supporting integration with BI tools such as Databricks and Palantir.
• Support data models, transformation logic, and reusable engineering patterns to improve data access and decision support.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver data products aligned to mission needs.
• Support testing, debugging, validation, and performance tuning of data pipelines and analytics workflows.
• Leverage Git-based repositories and version control practices to manage engineering efforts.
• Participate in Agile development activities and maintain documentation of designs and data flows.
• Contribute to secure, scalable delivery practices across cloud and DevSecOps environments.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

Databricks

Palantir Foundry

Git

Agile methodologies

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Databricks

Palantir Foundry

Git

Job description

INTELLITECH LLC is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with Active DoD Secret clearance to build scalable data pipelines and analytics workflows in secure federal environments. You will integrate enterprise data sources, enable reporting, and support visualization on BI platforms.

The role requires hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry, and collaboration across engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver data products that support mission-critical decision-making.