Product Delivery Manager III

Cynet Systems•Rosemead, CA

4d•$66 - $71

About The Position

This role focuses on the end-to-end technical ownership of product delivery, particularly within the Palantir Foundry ecosystem. The Product Delivery Manager III will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and supporting applications, ensuring their reliability and performance. This includes managing software development lifecycles, optimizing code for distributed environments, and providing ongoing operational support for critical systems. The role requires strong technical skills in full-stack development, data platforms, and specific expertise in Palantir Foundry architecture, including ontology design, pipeline execution, and infrastructure. The position involves collaborating with various stakeholders, including design teams, infrastructure providers, and third-party vendors. The candidate will be expected to handle complex operational workflows, make high-stakes decisions under pressure, and perform root cause analysis for incidents. A key aspect of the role is ensuring the reliable operation of Palantir Foundry and its underlying components, contributing to the optimization and rationalization of the application system portfolio.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
7+ years of experience.
Software engineering experience.
Strong full-stack fundamentals with depth in data platforms.
Experience designing and maintaining applications.
Proficiency in Python and Typescript.
Understanding of data pipeline architecture.
Familiarity with Palantir Foundry.
Ability to own technical outcomes end to end without close supervision.
Willingness and ability to participate in on call rotation, including occasional off hours response.
Ability to perform root cause analysis and drive post-incident improvements.
Experience with front end design (Palantir Foundry Workshop preferred).
Experience making architectural trade off decisions.
Ability to identify risks early and escalate appropriately.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Comfortable working through ambiguous problems in live production environments.
Ability to communicate incident status clearly to stakeholders.
Comfortable making high stakes decisions under time pressure.
Experience in complex operational workflows with tight support timelines.
Must support the underlying compute agents, hosting infrastructure and operational services required for Palantir foundry to run reliably.
Must possess Palantir Foundry architecture expertise including ontology design and governance, pipeline and DAG execution architecture, application and hosting infrastructure, integration patterns, and deployment lifecycle management.

Nice To Haves

Experience in data engineering or related roles.
Experience with Python for data processing and pipeline development.
Strong proficiency in Python including frameworks like PySpark or Polars.
Experience with Foundry Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, or Data Connection.
Familiarity with Ontology design and object based data modeling.
Understanding of data lineage and impact analysis.
Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance issues.
Experience translating business logic into pipeline implementations.
Ability to assess downstream impact of data issues and communicate appropriately.
Utility industry experience.

Responsibilities

Reviewing software requirements and preparing test scenarios.
Executing tests on software usability.
Analyzing test results on database impacts, errors or bugs, and usability.
Preparing reports on all aspects related to the software testing carried out and reporting to the design team.
Ongoing operational support for our Grid Resiliency portfolio, managing application build in Foundry Palantir.
Implementing reusable transform logic and shared libraries.
Managing version control, branching strategies, and code reviews.
Ensuring code is optimized for Foundry's distributed execution environment.
Applying best practices for maintainability and long-term reuse.
Implementation and/or configuration of Palantir software.
Pipeline and ETL maintenance process and quality control.
Ontology maintenance including access, change process and governance.
Implementation and Integration configuration of SaaS and public cloud-based PaaS solutions.
Development, configuration, integration and support for supporting Application System components required to deliver business processes and functional layers.
Provide Foundry overall architectural governance expertise and guidance including ontology design and governance.
Application System configuration and collaboration with infrastructure service provider required to provide application access to external/third parties.
Development, enhancement, integration and maintenance of workshop, dashboard, pipeline builder, Quiver dashboard, and automations.
Collaboration with Third Party Providers such as infrastructure service providers and enterprise public cloud providers.
Support business processes and deliver the required application and business functions to End Users in an integrated service delivery model.
Application Maintenance Services, including major enhancements, new application system development, or system projects.
Maintaining and repairing existing Application System errors, defects, bugs, and routine operations.
Document and maintain methodologies, policies, processes, OLAs and operational interaction models and RACIs.
Achieve the Service Levels and receive Services in accordance with mandated wildfire and regulatory guidelines.
Deliver agile Application maintenance Services, ensuring consistency and integration between Agile/DevOps service delivery methods.
Drive continual Application System portfolio optimization and rationalization.
Use Foundry's Resource Management application to analyze compute consumption, pipeline execution cost, storage utilization, and workload efficiency.