Foundry Engineer

CACI•Ashburn, VA

2d•$103,800 - $218,100•Hybrid

About The Position

CACI’s Agile Solution Factory (ASF) is hiring a Senior Foundry solutions within Palantir’s Army Vantage. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy advanced solutions that leverage the power of Vantage’s data integration, analytics, and operational capabilities. You will also support and integrate other capabilities built within the Department of the War (DoW) network, such as ADVANA, ensuring interoperability and maximizing impact across platforms. ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural, to the team. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You will work as an integral part of an Agile Scrum team – a highly productive team of technical professionals who thrive on supporting the customer's mission and growth objectives through Agile software development. You will work in close collaboration with team members and other stakeholders within Agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will have experience with Palantir Foundry, will have built and shipped a production Workshop application and will have modeled or extended an Ontology: object types, links, actions. As an Agile Scrum team member, you will work with stakeholders to refine requirements, track your work on an agile board and ensure user needs are met within standards. You will report on progress of assigned work at developer team sessions.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen, with an active secret DoD security clearance (ability to attain interim will be considered).
College degree (B.S., M.S.) in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline. Experience will be considered in lieu of education.
Minimum of 7 years related technical experience.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team.
Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic, and a self-starter.
Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment.
Solution-based thinker; capable of resolving complex technical challenges.
Experience and comfort working on a Scrumban team in an Agile environment.
Works well with limited oversight.
Workshop Application Development: Ability to build complex, multi‑page applications with variables, events, object views, and fully wired Actions.
Ontology Fundamentals: Strong understanding of object types, link types, Action types, and permissioning structures.
Pipeline Development: Proficiency with Code Repositories or Pipeline Builder, including incremental transforms and pipeline scheduling.
Data Health & Lineage: Familiarity with expectations, data checks, and techniques to ensure pipeline trustworthiness and visibility into lineage.
Security & Governance: Experience working with data markings, restricted views, and mandatory access controls.
Python & PySpark: Ability to read, debug, and write Python and PySpark for data engineering workflows.
Proficiency with Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

TypeScript Functions and custom React widgets for Workshop. Code beyond configuration. Great if they have it.
OSDK application development outside Workshop.
MCP. Palantir MCP and Ontology MCP.
Palantir certifications. Data Engineer or Application Developer track.
Experience with DoW (DoD) ADVANA.
Experience with Palantir MAVEN.
Experience developing in Army 365 (A365).
Azure Data/AI stack familiarity (Azure Databricks, Synapse, or Data Factory).
Experience developing and maintaining applications using Microsoft Power Platform suite (Model-driven and Canvas App, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Pages/Portals, Portal Management MDA, Power Apps Pipeline) in an Azure environment.
Experience developing with Databricks.
Experience with designing and implementing data models in Microsoft 365.

Responsibilities

Workshop application development: Complex, multi-page UIs with variables, events, object views, and Actions wired in.
Ontology fundamentals: Object types, link types, Action types, permissioning.
Pipeline development: Code Repositories or Pipeline Builder, incremental transforms, scheduling.
Data health and lineage: Expectations, checks, knowing how a pipeline is trustworthy.
Security and governance: Markings, restricted views, mandatory controls.
Reads, debugs and writes Python and PySpark.