Palantir Technical Lead

Palantir Technical Lead (Foundry / Gotham)

Chennai

Experience Required

- 10–12 years of overall software, data, or platform engineering experience
- 4–6+ years of hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry and/or Gotham
- 2–4 years in a technical leadership or lead developer role
- Role Summary
- The Palantir Technical Lead owns technical delivery and day-to-day execution of Palantir-based solutions. This role combines deep hands-on development with team leadership, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality implementations aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

- Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Lead end-to-end technical delivery of Palantir solutions using Foundry/Gotham
- Own design and implementation across data ingestion, transformation, ontology, and applications
- Make technical decisions, resolve complex issues, and manage technical risks
- Hands-On Development
- Design and build data pipelines, transforms, and operational workflows
- Implement and govern ontology models, object relationships, and actions
- Develop applications and dashboards using Foundry tools (Workshop, Slate, Contour, Quiver, etc.)
- Write and review Python, SQL, and Spark code
- Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Lead and mentor Palantir developers and data engineers
- Conduct code reviews and enforce development standards and best practices
- Support onboarding and skills development for team members
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with architects, product owners, and business stakeholders
- Translate requirements into technical designs and delivery plans
- Communicate status, risks, and dependencies effectively
- Quality, Security & Governance
- Ensure solutions meet performance, security, and governance requirements
- Implement access controls, data lineage, and monitoring
- Support CI/CD, testing, releases, and production support
- Required

Skills & Qualifications
- Palantir Platform Expertise
- Strong hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry and/or Gotham
- Proven ability to deliver production-grade Palantir solutions
- Deep understanding of ontology-driven design and operational workflows

Technical Skills

- Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL
- Strong experience with Spark / distributed data processing
- Solid understanding of data engineering and system integration

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Leadership & Communication
- Demonstrated experience leading technical teams
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly

- Preferred Qualifications
- Palantir certification(s)
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical domains (finance, healthcare, government, defense)
- Agile / Scrum experience
- Exposure to analytics, data science, or MLOps in Palantir

Education

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)