Contract Palantir Foundry Engineer Onsite

Position : Palantir Foundry Engineer

Domain : Healthcare

Location : Nashville, TN (Onsite from Day One)

Duration : 6 Months

Job Type Contract

Role Summary :

Seeking a hands-on Palantir Foundry Engineer to design ontology-driven data products, build reliable data pipelines, and operationalize them into secure, reusable, and observable assets supporting multiple healthcare applications (Workshop / Slate, AIP / Actions). This role covers the full lifecycle-from raw data to governed, versioned datasets powering enterprise analytics and AI workflows.

Key Responsibilities :

• Ontology & Data Modeling : Design and evolve Foundry Ontology objects, schemas, and data relationships with lineage tracking.
• Pipeline Engineering : Build and optimize Code Workbook transforms (SQL, PySpark / Scala), implement incremental and snapshot pipelines, and orchestrate DAGs.
• Data Operations : Configure schedules, SLAs, alerts, and DQ checks; ensure idempotent and fault-tolerant execution.
• Governance & Security : Apply RBAC, PII handling, policy tags, and least-privilege security principles.
• Performance Optimization : Tune joins, caching, and partitioning for cost and speed efficiency.
• DevOps & SDLC : Leverage Git, CI / CD, testing, and versioning within Foundry.
• Application Integration : Expose ontology-backed data to apps (Workshop / Slate), APIs, and AIP agents.
• Reliability : Manage incident response, RCAs, and create runbooks for data product stability.
• Documentation & Mentorship : Produce detailed documentation and enablement materials for engineering teams.

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Performance Metrics (First 90 180 Days) :