Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer — Fort Bragg, NC

The role

This person will provide technical leadership in designing, developing, integrating, and optimizing data solutions within the Palantir Foundry platform. They will translate complex operational requirements into scalable data products, pipelines, and analytical capabilities for the USASOC CDAO.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, datasets, and data products within Palantir Foundry.
• Develop and optimize Foundry pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark, and Foundry-native technologies.
• Build and maintain Foundry data transformations, workflows, datasets, and analytical applications.
• Develop and manage Ontology models.
• Integrate data from disparate enterprise, operational, and mission systems into Foundry.
• Design data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality processes.
• Work with data scientists, analysts, and mission users to operationalize analytical models and workflows.
• Develop reusable data products and services.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data quality issues, performance problems, and integration challenges.
• Optimize Foundry pipelines and data products for scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Required qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance, or the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI per contract requirements.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data platform engineering, or a related technical discipline, including demonstrated hands-on development within Palantir Foundry.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade data pipelines and data products.
• Experience integrating data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational data technologies.
• Experience supporting data engineering solutions in DoD, federal, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Experience collaborating directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate mission requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong communicator.
• Palantir Foundry
• Foundry Ontology

Nice to have

• Direct experience supporting USASOC, USSOCOM, or another Special Operations Forces organization.
• Previous experience supporting a Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) or comparable enterprise data organization.
• Experience developing Foundry solutions for DoD mission, intelligence, operations, logistics, or command-and-control use cases.
• Experience working with Foundry in classified or air-gapped environments.
• Experience with Foundry Ontology development and operationalization.
• Experience building Foundry applications using Workshop, Slate, or similar Foundry application-development capabilities.
• Experience integrating Foundry with enterprise APIs, databases, message queues, cloud services, and external applications.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience deploying machine learning or advanced analytics capabilities into operational data workflows.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud environments.

About the company

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. Founded in 2008, the company leverages more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government.