Senior Foundry Data Platform Lead

nscaleoperationsukltd; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

nscaleoperationsukltd is seeking a senior data platform lead to steer the technical direction of a scalable data platform that supports operational workflows, internal tools, and customer insights. This hands-on role blends architecture, engineering, and cross-team mentoring.

You will design architecture and roadmap, build pipelines, model data, enforce governance, review data contracts, and collaborate with product and commercial teams to deliver trusted datasets and actionable dashboards.

Qualifications

• Deep practical experience with Palantir Foundry and ontology modelling.
• Leadership track record in data engineering, setting standards and mentoring.
• Strong Python skills and experience with Spark/PySpark/Dask/pandas on large datasets.
• Familiarity with API integrations (REST, GraphQL, Foundry Action APIs).
• Experience with Git-based development, version control, and CI/CD workflows.
• Clear communication and ownership in dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Design platform architecture and technical roadmap with a focus on scale and data integrity.
• Build and maintain data pipelines uniting infrastructure, platform, and business data.
• Develop data models, schemas, and ontology structures for operational use cases.
• Establish access controls, governance, data quality checks, monitoring, lineage, and freshness practices.
• Review code, document data contracts and semantic layers, and help teams deliver trusted datasets.
• Partner with product and commercial teams to deliver data solutions and dashboards.

Skills

Leadership in data engineering

Python programming

API integrations

Git-based development

Ontology modelling

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Spark

PySpark

Dask

pandas

REST

GraphQL

Foundry Action APIs

Git

CI/CD

Job description

nscaleoperationsukltd is seeking a senior data platform lead to steer the technical direction of a scalable data platform that supports operational workflows, internal tools, and customer insights. This hands-on role blends architecture, engineering, and cross-team mentoring.

You will design architecture and roadmap, build pipelines, model data, enforce governance, review data contracts, and collaborate with product and commercial teams to deliver trusted datasets and actionable dashboards.