Palantir Data Engineer

Type: 12-month contract to start


Location: Spring, Texas


Schedule: Onsite 5 days a week

Palantir Data Engineer

What role you will play in our team
• As part of the team, you would help build tools that optimize investment and operational decisions.
• Be a specialist in building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines, data connections, and ontologies within the Palantir Foundry platform.
• Implement the data layer of the application using the Palantir Foundry platform, revising the current design implemented in other technologies
• Serve as a knowledge resource regarding Palantir tools for the rest of the team

What you will do
• Quickly come up to speed on the current data organization of the product, converting that data model into a Palantir Ontology representation
• Develop back-end code logic that leverages semantic object linking (ontologies) to enhance data integration, analysis, and visualization capabilities.
• Give suggestions and recommendations on changes to the data model that would improve performance, extensibility, or flexibility of the Palantir solution
• Work closely with data strategists to develop technology solutions for business problems, ensuring seamless data flow and integration.
• Implement validations and transforms of the Ontology data as required, taking full advantage of Foundry platform capabilities
• Create examples or write interface code that will ease connection to Ontology data from other parts of our system
• Create and configure ontology objects using backing datasets, permissions, and other configurations.
• Document ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, and software application program interfaces.
• Partner with product owners, architects, and developers to design data architecture and pipelining.
• Provide training and support to users on the capabilities and use cases enabled by the enhancement of Palantir Foundry ontology.

Skills and Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, quantitative sciences, or mathematics; alternatively significant practical software project experience
• Multiple years of experience in building data heavy applications or working as a data engineer
• Producing or maintaining high-quality data assets in Foundry
• Knowledge of distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark) and programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL).
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience with building applications in Palantir Foundry, focused on data modeling and utilization of Ontology Manager tool
• Strong analytical thinking skills with ability to assimilate software architectures and data designs quickly
• Adaptability to rapidly changing priorities and an ability to deliver work on time
• Good technical communication and collaboration skills; experience working in Agile teams

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
• Broad experience in other Palantir Foundry tools (e.g. Workshop, Quiver, etc.)

Required Skills : Palantir, Data Engineering, Python/SQL, Spark

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