Palantir Lead (W2 ONLY)

Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced Palantir Lead / Architect with over 10 years of overall experience and strong expertise in the Palantir Foundry ecosystem.
• The role involves designing, developing, and implementing scalable data platforms and AI-driven solutions for enterprise use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end data solutions using the Palantir Foundry platform
• Build and manage data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration
• Develop and maintain Foundry Ontology models to represent business entities and relationships
• Work on Contour / AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) for AI/ML-driven workflows and decision support
• Utilize Quiver for advanced analytics and data exploration use cases
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into data-driven applications and workflows
• Ensure data governance, lineage, security, and performance optimization
• Drive best practices for data engineering, architecture, and deployment within Palantir ecosystem
• Support production deployments, troubleshooting, and optimization of pipelines and applications

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with strong focus on data/platform engineering
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Palantir Foundry (must-have)
  • Pipeline Builder / Code Repositories within Foundry
  • Ontology modeling
  • Contour / AIP
  • Quiver
• Strong expertise in:
  • Data engineering and pipeline development
  • Data modeling and schema design
  • Distributed data processing concepts
• Proficiency in Python / SQL
• Experience in data governance and data quality frameworks
• Ability to work in client-facing roles and drive solution discussions

Preferred Skills

• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Exposure to AI/ML integration and use-case development
• Knowledge of data mesh / data product architecture
• Strong understanding of enterprise data ecosystems

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder communication and leadership skills
• Ability to drive end-to-end solution ownership
• Experience working in onsite-offshore collaboration model