Lead Palantir Foundry Engineer

Job#: 3045618

Job Description:

Overview

• We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Palantir Foundry Engineer to support and evolve a business-critical supply chain platform built on Palantir Foundry. This individual will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for application support, production stability, knowledge transfer, and future platform expansion.
• The ideal candidate will bring 7-10 years of Data Engineering experience, including hands-on expertise within Palantir Foundry. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, platform support, stakeholder engagement, and solution delivery experience.
• This position will play a critical role in ensuring continuity of support, reducing operational risk, and enabling long-term scalability of Foundry-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead technical resource supporting Palantir Foundry applications and data products
• Act as the primary escalation point for production issues, platform support, and application troubleshooting
• Diagnose and resolve issues across data pipelines, ontology models, and user-facing applications
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and implement sustainable fixes to improve platform reliability
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to prioritize enhancements and support activities
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and support resources
• Drive documentation, knowledge transfer, and best practices to reduce key-person dependencies
• Support platform expansion initiatives and future use case development
• Evaluate technical debt and identify opportunities to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance
• Collaborate with internal and external teams supporting supply chain, analytics, and operational initiatives

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of Data Engineering experience

• 2+ years of hands-on Palantir Foundry experience

• Strong understanding of:

• Palantir Foundry Architecture

• Ontology Modeling

• Workshop Applications

• Data Pipeline Development

• SQL

• PySpark / Spark

• Data Integration & ETL Frameworks

• Experience supporting and maintaining production enterprise applications

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex data and platform issues independently

• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Palantir Foundry Certification (Associate Data Engineer, Foundry Aware, or equivalent)
• Experience supporting supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, or operational workflows
• Experience developing and supporting ontology-driven applications
• Familiarity with Palantir AIP and AI-driven workflows
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Platform, or other modern cloud data ecosystems
• Prior consulting experience supporting large enterprise organizations

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Remote:

Yes

Location:

Cleveland, OH, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

August 10, 2026

Pay Range:

$80 - $95 per hour

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