Specialist, Data Architect

L3Harris • Huntsville, AL

11d • Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris Missile Solutions Segment’s Business Intelligence team is seeking a Specialist, Data Architect and Engineer to support the design, implementation, and integration of data solutions within Palantir Foundry. The role leads cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision-making for missile systems development and operations. It includes responsibilities for data warehouse governance, data quality, data security, access provisioning, and scalable data architecture. The successful candidate will collaborate with users and stakeholders to translate reporting and visualization needs into actionable data models and pipelines that support continuous improvement and organizational insight.

The position is located at L3Harris headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, and follows a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. Travel may be required up to 10%. The employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of prior experience, or a graduate degree with 2 years of prior related experience; alternatively, at least 8 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.
• At least 2 years of experience with ETL/ELT patterns, data storage, and data modeling using Foundry Pipeline Builder and/or Python.
• At least 2 years of experience with Power BI or similar visualization tools.
• Experience working with Palantir Foundry in a data warehouse environment.
• Familiarity with role-based access control, the principle of least privilege, and segregation of sensitive data.
• Ability to adapt to evolving technologies and alternate solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, customer focus, and interpersonal effectiveness.
• Ability to translate data requirements into user-oriented solutions using established procedures and basic analytical methods.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with minimal oversight.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems, conduct research, and implement effective solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building and managing datasets, objects, pipelines, and transforms in Palantir Foundry.
• Experience designing and implementing ontologies in Palantir Foundry.
• Experience creating Foundry applications and workshops for end users.
• Experience with Foundry code repositories using Python, SQL, or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the development, design, and maintenance of data warehouses and transformational tools that enable actionable business insights.
• Design, build, and manage data pipelines, including transformation mapping, data flow diagrams, and metadata collection, to ensure accessibility, accuracy, and security.
• Document and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models and metadata solutions to support effective data usage.
• Design and maintain data ontologies that accurately represent business entities and relationships to support advanced analytics.
• Participate in planning sessions to improve business processes, prioritize data investments, and translate strategies into integration frameworks and user-facing applications.
• Contribute to methodologies and governance for extracting, transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data from systems such as Snowflake and Palantir Foundry.
• Coordinate with IT and Data Analytics teams to optimize resources, align initiatives, and maintain documentation, including pipeline specifications, schemas, and user guides.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level