Palantir Application Engineer

Join Deloitte's AI & Engineering team to help clients modernize technology platforms, accelerate innovation, and drive meaningful business outcomes. In this role, you will work alongside multidisciplinary professionals to design and deliver modern data solutions that support enterprise transformation. You will help build scalable platforms, analytics products, and data pipelines that enable mission-focused results and measurable client impact.

Work you'll do

As a Data Engineer III on the AI & Data team, you will be responsible for designing and delivering data products and applications that support client operations and decision-making.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines in Palantir Foundry to ingest, transform, validate, and publish enterprise data.
• Develop data models, ontologies, and business objects; implement automated data quality monitoring, validation rules, and error-handling mechanisms.
• Build and maintain React-based applications, dashboards, forms, workflows, and data visualizations integrated with Foundry data assets, services, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Configure integrations with cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and enterprise systems; optimize pipeline transformations for reliability and scalability.
• Partner with product owners, analysts, data scientists, UX designers, and business stakeholders through solution design, testing, deployment, documentation, release management, and production support while maintaining security, governance, and compliance standards.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our AI & Data offering provides a full spectrum of solutions for designing, developing, and operating cutting-edge Data and AI platforms, products, insights, and services. Our offerings help clients innovate, enhance, and operate their data, AI, and analytics capabilities, ensuring they can mature and scale effectively with organizational intelligence programs and differentiated strategies to win in their chosen markets.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or analytics engineering.
• Experience using Palantir Foundry, including Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, Workshop, Ontology Management, Actions, and Operational Workflows.
• Experience developing extract, transform, load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) pipelines and data integration solutions using Python and Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience developing web applications using React and TypeScript or JavaScript with component-based design patterns.
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience using Git, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, testing frameworks, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience with Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud.
• Experience with PySpark, Spark SQL, or distributed data processing frameworks.
• Experience integrating applications using representational state transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs), GraphQL, or microservices architectures.
• Experience with data visualization libraries, including Recharts, D3, or Chart.js.

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Houston, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Houston and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,300 to $188,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.