Tech Lead - Palantir Foundry

Overview

Hybrid
$80 - $90
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Palantir Foundry
Snowflake
Informatica
performance tuning
security
data governance
SQL
PySpark queries
Python programming data modeling

Job Details

As an Expert Tech Lead, you will lead data product delivery teams on our Palantir Foundry data platform, and may be expected to branch out into our other key platforms, Snowflake and Informatica.

As a team leader, you will be responsible for bringing to life the vision of our business teams, driving requirements discussions, architecture, and code.

You will lead technical design and implementation of multiple use cases and drive technical feasibility discussions for our products as you collaborate with other technical leaders, product owners and development leads. You will be required to discover the boundaries of our platforms, provide solutions for technical problems and drive discussions within IT and Lines of Business. As a productive leader of a motivated group of engineers, product teams, and technical analysts, you will be producing ground-breaking, forward thinking, and revolutionary projects that will modernize critical infrastructure. You will also be responsible for mentoring engineers, as well as upholding standards of code and execution quality, documentation, reliability, and maintainability in the projects you lead.

Job Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design and implementation of Palantir Foundry use cases
  • Cross-train into Snowflake + Informatica implementation as needed
  • Ensure best practices are followed for performance tuning, security and data governance
  • Build awesome big data products within a fun team where culture is the foundation for success
  • Lead and mentor the development team in a hands-on way
  • Provide technical feasibility assessment while collaborating with Product Owner and Design team to guide features and provide technical know-how
  • Define and address application non-functional requirements, and manage technical debt
  • Debug and optimize complex applications
  • Effectively communicate the vision and architecture to team members
  • Maintain a productive working environment for development teams
  • Be a strong advocate for a culture of quality across the team
  • Collaborate with external teams, especially security, to design, implement and support solutions that are scalable and efficient
  • Effectively communicate the solution to non-technical stakeholders
  • Follow an agile development methodology
  • Keep up-to-date with product capabilities of Palantir Foundry releases, features and best practices and recommend changes to improve efficiency, performance and scalability
  • Lead the way in deploying cutting-edge Foundry capabilities against real business problems
  • Advocate for appropriate data modeling techniques to enable agile development and the business use cases, specifically in the integration of event-driven with batch data processing

Qualifications

Minimum:

  • High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
  • Experience as Technical Lead, 3 years
  • Intermediate to Expert Level Data Engineering background including complex SQL, PySpark queries and data modeling experience
  • Intermediate to Expert Level Development in Python

Desired:

  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience
  • 7 years of experience in IT working in application development and architecture, with 5 years project implementation experience and hands-on experience developing data products
  • Expert in the solution architecture discipline, processes, concepts and best practices
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