Palantir foundary lead

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W2 Only and no third parties About the Role We are seeking an experienced Palantir Foundry Lead to own the design, delivery, and governance of our Foundry platform implementation.

Qualifications

• We are seeking an experienced Palantir Foundry Lead to own the design, delivery, and governance of our Foundry platform implementation.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and data science teams to translate
• into scalable Foundry solutions (Workshop apps, Quiver dashboards, Slate/Contour reporting).
• Lead and mentor a team of Foundry developers/data engineers, providing technical guidance, code review, and career development.
• Own platform performance, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction across pipelines and datasets.
• Manage relationships with Palantir's delivery/customer success teams, including participation in roadmap discussions and escalation management.
• Drive best practices for CI/CD, version control, and testing within the Foundry environment (e.g., using Foundry's Code Repositories, checks, and branching strategies).
• Support integration of Foundry with upstream/downstream systems (cloud data warehouses, APIs, enterprise applications).
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials for platform users.
• Stay current on new Foundry capabilities (AIP, Ontology SDK, Foundry ML, etc.) and evaluate applicability to business use cases.
• Required
• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise data architecture roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, development, and deployment of data pipelines, ontologies, and applications within Palantir Foundry.
• Serve as the primary technical owner for Foundry architecture decisions, including data modeling, code/data workbooks, transforms (PySpark/SQL), and ontology object/action design.
• Manage the full data lifecycle in Foundry: ingestion, transformation, quality validation, lineage tracking, and publishing to downstream consumers.
• Establish and enforce platform governance standards — access controls, data classification, markings/policies, and compliance with internal security and regulatory

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