Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry (TS/SCI cleared)
About The Position
At Accenture Federal Services (AFS), we are dedicated to strengthening and safeguarding the US federal government and improving the lives of its citizens. Our team of over 13,000 professionals leverages technology and ingenuity to serve clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. As a Forward Deployed Engineer at AFS, you will play a crucial role in helping our clients overcome their most significant challenges, spanning from battlefield operations to supply chain management, benefits programs, and broader government functions. You will collaborate within a focused team of engineers, domain experts, and Deployment Strategists to transform client visions into reality by deploying Palantir software and developing customized solutions that deliver tangible operational impacts.
Requirements
- Must be a US Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance
- Ability to work full time on-site in Colorado Springs, CO
- Proven experience building data pipelines, managing datasets, and deploying applications within Palantir Foundry
- Practical skills required to build and maintain production-grade data pipelines, data connections, and ontologies
- General knowledge of platform capabilities and specific applications within the Foundry suite
- Data pipeline development in Foundry
- Data pipeline maintenance in Foundry
- Familiarity with recommended support structures
- Data connection and integration in Foundry
- Familiarity with architecture and capabilities of Data Connection
- Ontology design and development in Foundry
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Demonstrated ability to build production-grade code that leverages both structured and unstructured datasets
- Strong foundation in machine learning
- Strong programming skills with demonstrated proficiency in Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/ JavaScript, or similar
- Ability to travel, dependent on client and team
Nice To Haves
- Experience building solutions with large language models
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineers, program managers, and domain specialists to conceive, architect, build, and maintain applications that meet AFS clients’ needs.
- Understand a client’s most critical objectives and synthesize disparate information into a cohesive vision and actionable roadmap, interpreting what the data signifies and outlining an impact-based plan to rapidly go from use case to prototype to scaled deployment.
- Quickly iterate, build from scratch, and help transform clients' operations at uncommon speed, reshaping how entire organizations work by putting powerful tools in the hands of executives and real operators.
- Develop production-grade solutions that make sense of the client’s data and process it through an actionable workflow to aid in better decision-making.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues to define solution requirements, iterate on the solution, and ship code.
- Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines, data connections, and ontologies within Palantir Foundry.
- Develop transforms on structured (tabular) and unstructured datasets in Foundry, applying best practices.
- Investigate and fix common issues in data pipelines and contribute to logic changes and performance improvements for mission-critical workflows.
- Set up sources and syncs for ingesting tabular data or raw files from external systems to Foundry.
- Provide data engineering context during ontology design and implement pipelines backing ontology objects and links based on application requirements.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience
- Certifications
- Industry training
- Wide variety of benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
