Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer: Data Pipelines & Apps

Guidehouse; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a data systems professional in Huntsville to design, build, and maintain Palantir Foundry-based data integration, analytics, and operational solutions. You will create scalable data pipelines, ontology models, and user-facing applications using Foundry Workshops to support reporting, AI, and decision-making.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of Palantir Foundry experience, strong SQL/Python skills (PySpark), and familiar with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS).

Qualifications

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS 'PUBLIC TRUST'; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Bachelor's degree required; in lieu of degree, four (4) additional years of experience accepted.
• FOUR (4)+ years of experience developing solutions using Palantir Foundry, including data pipelines, transformations, data products, and application development.
• Experience with SQL and Python (particularly PySpark).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain data integration, analytics, and operational solutions using Palantir Foundry and related enterprise data platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transformations, and reusable data products supporting operational reporting, advanced analytics, AI, and decision support.
• Develop and maintain Palantir Ontology models, business objects, relationships, actions, and workflows that support operational and analytical use cases.
• Design and develop user-facing applications using Foundry Workshops and other Palantir application development capabilities.
• Integrate data from cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and external data sources using scalable and secure integration patterns.
• Develop and optimize solutions using Python, SQL, and other modern programming languages for large-scale data processing and analytics.
• Implement data quality, validation, metadata management, lineage, and governance practices to ensure trusted, reusable, and well-documented data assets.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, data scientists, analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate mission and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support Agile software development activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Prepare technical documentation including system diagrams, data flow diagrams, solution documentation, standard operating procedures, and implementation guides.
• Support technical modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and AI-enabled analytics solutions.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Agile/DevSecOps

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a data systems professional in Huntsville to design, build, and maintain Palantir Foundry-based data integration, analytics, and operational solutions. You will create scalable data pipelines, ontology models, and user-facing applications using Foundry Workshops to support reporting, AI, and decision-making.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of Palantir Foundry experience, strong SQL/Python skills (PySpark), and familiar with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS).