Senior Foundry Developer - Data Pipelines for Defense

National Capitol Contracting LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

National Capitol Contracting LLC seeks an experienced Foundry Developer II to design and implement enterprise data solutions using Palantir Foundry, Python, and SQL. This role supports the Navy's NDLA program, delivering scalable data pipelines and analytics with security clearances.

You'll collaborate with senior Navy leadership, build modern data architectures, and ensure data quality across complex systems while advancing cloud-based analytics and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance required.
• 9+ years of data engineering experience, software development, or analytics engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry (pipelines/transforms, data modeling/ontology concepts).
• Experience with data extraction and manipulation.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Proven experience building data pipelines and data models.

Responsibilities

• Design future-state, modern data architecture, pipelining, and analysis for transformation at the enterprise level using advanced cloud architectural principles.
• Work with cutting-edge DevOps technologies and develop advanced analytics products.
• Apply data pipelining and statistical programming tools to enterprise data to advance and enable key mission outcomes.
• Build and optimize data pipelines and transform using Python within Foundry.
• Integrate with external systems and APIs and manage data connections.
• Implement automated testing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and monitor performance and data quality.
• Lead code reviews; document solutions and follow best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

National Capitol Contracting LLC seeks an experienced Foundry Developer II to design and implement enterprise data solutions using Palantir Foundry, Python, and SQL. This role supports the Navy's NDLA program, delivering scalable data pipelines and analytics with security clearances.

You'll collaborate with senior Navy leadership, build modern data architectures, and ensure data quality across complex systems while advancing cloud-based analytics and DevOps practices.