Lead Palantir Application Engineer

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)•Hudson, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Requirements

5 years relevant experience required.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
Agentic development experience

Nice To Haves

8 years of relevant experience preferred.
Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions preferred
Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts preferred
Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices preferred
Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred.
Experience using different LLMs.
Knowledge of different models, experience working with MCP, and familiarity with different agentic coding frameworks.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, APIs, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD concepts.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities.
Define implementation approaches, guide architecture decisions, and ensure solutions are built with appropriate security, reliability, maintainability, and performance considerations.
Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications across project teams.
Guide the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns.
Help teams apply these capabilities consistently and appropriately.
Review complex designs and code, identify technical risks, challenge weak implementation approaches, and ensure applications are built to meet business goals and long-term support expectations.
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers.
Help raise the team’s capability by sharing knowledge, reviewing work, and supporting consistent engineering practices.
Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects.
Partner with product owners, architects, and managers to align technical delivery with project and portfolio priorities.
Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues.
Lead root-cause analysis, recommend durable fixes, and help improve monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness.
Communicate technical options, risks, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to business users, technology teams, vendors, management, and senior leaders.