Senior Data Engineer with Secret Clearance Palantir Foundry

LMI; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI, based in Tysons, Virginia, is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of scalable data pipelines and products supporting Army logistics. You will design data models and ontology, ensure data quality and security, and collaborate with software engineers, product designers, and stakeholders.

This senior individual-contributor role requires architectural decision-making, production-grade systems, and raising the technical bar for the team, with eligibility for U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• Eight+ years of experience building production data systems.
• Strong proficiency with Python and SQL and modern data-engineering patterns.
• Experience designing data pipelines and products on Palantir Foundry or comparable platform.
• Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: testing, source control, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Experience supporting a Department of War customer.
• Active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Integrate and transform data from Army and enterprise sources.
• Develop data models and ontology to support modernization, reporting, and analysis.
• Design for data quality, lineage, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Establish engineering standards for testing, source control, deployment, and operations.
• Partner with software engineers, product designers, and stakeholders.
• Review designs, mentor engineers, and resolve complex data challenges.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering patterns

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Ontology

CI/CD

Source control

Monitoring

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

LMI, based in Tysons, Virginia, is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of scalable data pipelines and products supporting Army logistics. You will design data models and ontology, ensure data quality and security, and collaborate with software engineers, product designers, and stakeholders.

This senior individual-contributor role requires architectural decision-making, production-grade systems, and raising the technical bar for the team, with eligibility for U.S.