Senior Technical Lead

Role Overview

As a Senior Technical Lead on our Palantir practice, you will bridge the gap between solution

architecture and hands-on engineering. You will lead a squad of developers and data engineers, own

the technical delivery of Foundry pipelines and AIP-powered features, and ensure that what gets built

matches what the Technical Architect has designed — on time, at quality, and with robust Day-2

supportability.

You will take direct ownership of Palantir Foundry pipelines (Python Transforms, Foundry Rules,

Ontology Objects), coordinate AIP Logic automations, manage developer workflows, and serve as the

first line of technical triage for production issues.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Delivery & Pipeline Ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery of Palantir Foundry data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation,
  
  

Foundry Rules (Java), and Ontology Object management.

• Lead the implementation of AIP Logic automations for requirement extraction, answer matching,
  
  

scoring, and LLM-based document processing workflows.

• Design and maintain pipeline lineage, schedules, and monitoring to ensure data freshness and
  
  

platform reliability.

• Build and maintain integration connectors between Foundry and external systems —
  
  

Salesforce, Snowflake, REST APIs, and media sets.

• Manage and troubleshoot compute modules (Docker-based C# programs) used for document
  
  

export and Word generation workflows.

Team Leadership & Code Quality

• Lead a team of 3–6 developers and data engineers, conducting code reviews, sprint planning,
  
  

and technical mentoring.

• Define coding standards, branching strategies, pull request processes, and repository hygiene
  
  

for Foundry code repositories.

• Translate architecture blueprints from Technical Architects into sprint-ready technical tasks with
  
  

clear acceptance criteria.

• Identify and resolve technical blockers, escalating to Palantir or architecture teams as needed
  
  

with well-documented issue descriptions.

Day-2 Support & Operational Excellence

• Serve as the technical lead for Day-2 support — owning SOP runbooks, triage playbooks, and
  
  

on-call readiness for Palantir-based platforms.

• Monitor pipeline health, respond to PagerDuty alerts, resolve schema conflicts, credential
  
  

failures, and build failures in production environments.

• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks (e.g., long-running campaign builds, massive
  
  

dataset joins) and drive optimization.

• Lead Day-2 support training sessions for new team members and client stakeholders, covering
  
  

system architecture, common failure modes, and escalation paths.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Communication

• Work directly with Architects to validate technical designs and surface implementation risks
  
  

early.

• Engage with client technical counterparts and Palantir forward-deployed engineers to align on
  
  

platform capabilities and best practices.

• Provide clear, concise status updates on delivery progress, blockers, and technical risks to
  
  

project leadership.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Palantir Foundry: Python Transforms, Pipeline Lineage, Schedules, Ontology Object design,
  
  

Foundry Rules (Java), Media Sets.

• Palantir AIP: AIP Logic, AIP Automations, LLM integration basics, AIP Evals familiarity.
• Data Engineering: Data ingestion pipelines, schema management, Spark-based compute,
  
  

incremental builds.

• Integration: Salesforce, Snowflake, REST APIs, CDO data connection patterns.
• Languages: Python (strong), Java (Foundry Rules), SQL (strong); C# or TypeScript a plus.
• DevOps: Docker, Git branching, CI/CD for Foundry repositories, code review workflows.
  
  

Experience

• 5–7 years of total experience in software engineering, data engineering, or platform
  
  

development.

• 2 years of hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry in production environments, including
  
  

pipeline ownership.

• Experience leading small engineering teams (3–6 people) in agile delivery environments.
• Proven ability to support and troubleshoot complex data platforms in a Day-2 support capacity.
• Experience with Salesforce or Snowflake integrations in enterprise settings preferred.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-powered document processing pipelines (OCR, PDF/Docx to Markdown,
  
  

LLM-based extraction).

• Familiarity with Palantir AIP Evals, LLM-as-a-judge frameworks, and confidence scoring for AI
  
  

outputs.

• Knowledge of Foundry Rules Java pipeline patterns, including .addObjectRid, .addLinkRid, and
  
  

Materialize Ontology Object patterns.

• Exposure to Campaign Lifecycle Management, lead management, or sales operations
  
  

platforms.

• Understanding computing modules, OpenXML SDK, or other programmatic document
  
  

generation approaches.