Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer – Mission Data Architect

Leidos; Fayetteville (NC); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of data solutions for USASOC at Ft. Bragg, NC.

You will translate operational needs into scalable Foundry pipelines, data products, and analytics, collaborating with data engineers, scientists, and mission stakeholders. Applicants should have hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, security clearance, and a track record building production-grade data platforms in DoD or mission-critical settings.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in a technical field such as Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Mathematics.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software/data engineering or related field.
• Hands-on experience developing Palantir Foundry solutions and production-grade data pipelines.
• Experience integrating data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products within Palantir Foundry.
• Develop and optimize Foundry pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark, and Foundry-native technologies.
• Build and maintain Foundry data transformations, workflows, datasets, and analytics applications.
• Develop Ontology models representing operational entities, relationships, and mission data.
• Integrate data from enterprise, operational, and mission systems into Foundry.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Foundry Ontology

Foundry Pipeline Builder

Foundry Workshop

Foundry Slate

Python

SQL

PySpark

Data transformation

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

API integration

Data quality

Git

Version control

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

REST APIs

Data governance

Access controls

Troubleshooting

Performance optimization

Education

Master's degree in CS / data science / computer engineering / IT / mathematics or related field

Tools

Foundry Slate

Foundry Workshop

AWS

Azure

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of data solutions for USASOC at Ft. Bragg, NC.

You will translate operational needs into scalable Foundry pipelines, data products, and analytics, collaborating with data engineers, scientists, and mission stakeholders. Applicants should have hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, security clearance, and a track record building production-grade data platforms in DoD or mission-critical settings.