Senior Consulting Manager, Palantir Chain Reaction Utility Transformation

Senior Consulting Manager, Palantir Chain Reaction Utility Transformation

About Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice. We're a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we're looking for our next colleague who'll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

About the role

As a Senior Consulting Manager, Palantir Chain Reaction Utility Transformation, you will make an impact by providing senior advisory, solution leadership, and delivery governance for a major utility transformation program powered by Palantir's AI infrastructure operating system.

This role requires a combination of hands-on Palantir platform expertise across Foundry, AIP, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, and Workshop, together with utility domain knowledge across speed-to-power, grid operations, and storm and emergency management.

You will translate the utility client's operational priorities into Palantir-native data models, workflows, applications, and AI-enabled solutions. You will also serve as the primary techno-functional lead connecting utility operations leadership, engineering, IT/OT teams, data stakeholders, and platform delivery teams.

Project context

Chain Reaction is a Palantir initiative launched in December 2025 to help build an operating system for American AI infrastructure. The program brings together Palantir's AI and data platform capabilities with NVIDIA's accelerated computing technologies to support critical infrastructure providers responding to growing energy and infrastructure demands.

For this utility client, Chain Reaction builds upon existing Palantir-enabled storm response and grid resiliency capabilities. The program is expanding into speed-to-power, large-load interconnection, grid operations, and operational visibility across critical utility assets to help address significant load growth within the Greater Houston area.

In this role, you will support and extend Chain Reaction use cases already in operation, including storm and emergency response coordination, mutual-assistance crew onboarding and deployment, and asset data integration. You will also help design, build, and scale new use cases across speed-to-power, grid operations, and AI-enabled infrastructure delivery using Palantir Foundry, AIP Ontology, and NVIDIA's accelerated computing ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

• Own the delivery, stabilization, and continuous improvement of live Palantir-enabled workflows supporting storm response coordination, mutual-assistance crew deployment, and utility asset data integration.
• Lead the identification, design, and implementation of new Chain Reaction use cases across speed-to-power, grid operations, storm management, and AI-enabled infrastructure delivery.
• Build and extend Foundry Ontology models covering grid assets, work orders, outages, crews, weather, construction, and interconnection data.
• Design and configure Workshop applications, operational dashboards, geospatial workflows, and AIP-powered agents for field, dispatch, engineering, operations, and executive users.
• Define and oversee batch and streaming data pipelines integrating GIS, SCADA, OMS/ADMS, WMS/EAM, AMI, ERP, weather, construction, and other enterprise utility systems.
• Translate business and operational needs into functional requirements, epics, user stories, ontology data models, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and prioritized roadmaps.
• Facilitate design and prioritization workshops with operations, engineering, dispatch, field services, IT/OT, data, platform delivery, and executive stakeholders.
• Govern delivery execution, including backlog and dependency management, release planning, RAID reporting, testing, cutover, hypercare, training, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Define and monitor operational KPIs covering energization cycle time, outage restoration, mutual-aid deployment speed, data quality, platform adoption, and utility reliability.
• Establish platform governance standards for Ontology modelling, security and permissions, version control, code review, solution reusability, and deployment practices.

What you must have to be considered

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in utilities consulting, grid modernization, distribution operations, or large-scale utility program delivery.
• 4+ years of hands-on Palantir Foundry and AIP experience, including Ontology design, Pipeline Builder, Code Workbooks or repositories, PySpark, SQL, and application development.
• Experience leading techno-functional workstreams that connect utility operations, engineering, IT/OT, data, and platform engineering stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of North American electric utility operations across speed-to-power, large-load interconnection, grid operations, and storm or emergency management.
• Experience integrating enterprise utility systems such as GIS, SCADA, OMS/ADMS, WMS/EAM, AMI, ERP, weather, and construction platforms.
• Strong requirements management experience covering epics, features, user stories, functional specifications, ontology data models, test scenarios, traceability, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery, release planning, dependency management, RAID reporting, platform governance, change management, and benefits realization.
• Strong consulting communication, executive storytelling, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving skills.

These will help you succeed

• Experience building AIP Logic, AIP Agents, or LLM-powered workflows grounded in Ontology data, including prompt design and operational evaluation.
• Experience developing Workshop applications, Slate interfaces, Contour or Quiver analytics, and map-based or geospatial workflows.
• Knowledge of speed-to-power processes from load request and engineering design through construction, commissioning, interconnection, and energization.
• Understanding of control center operations, switching, feeder and substation coordination, distribution automation, FLISR, VVO, and DERMS.
• Knowledge of storm preparedness, outage lifecycle management, crew dispatch, restoration prioritization, and mutual-assistance mobilization.
• Familiarity with utility reliability measures such as SAIFI, SAIDI, CAIDI, CMI, and CEMI.
• Working knowledge of NVIDIA technologies, including Nemotron models and CUDA-X libraries, within enterprise AI and data-platform environments.
• Palantir Foundry certification, such as Data Engineer or Solution Architect, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Advanced degree or professional certification such as PMP, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe.
• Experience working in the Texas or ERCOT utility market.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring four days a week in an office located in downtown Houston, Texas. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing Programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

Compensation

The final compensation offered will be determined based on the successful candidate's relevant education, experience, skills, location, and other business-related factors. This position is eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Employee assistance program
• 10 paid holidays plus paid time off
• Paid parental leave and fertility assistance
• Learning and development certifications and programs

Post closing date

Applications will be accepted until 17 October 2026.

About Cognizant:

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

Additional employment information

Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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