Senior Foundry Developer

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Full Time Technical Washington, DC, Washington, DC, US

Position Summary

This is an ONSITE position located at the Navy Yard, D.C.

Active Secret Clearance Required

National Capitol Contracting is seeking an experienced
Senior Foundry Engineer to develop, deploy, integrate, and scale Palantir Foundry solutions. This broader engineering role combines platform development, solution architecture, technical problem-solving, and customer-facing implementation. The successful candidate will work directly with Navy stakeholders to understand complex operational challenges and customize Foundry solutions that deliver measurable business and mission outcomes.

NAVSEA—one of the Navy’s six system commands and the organization responsible for both industrial operations and digital modernization—has partnered with National Capitol Contracting on the congressionally funded Naval Digital Logistics Acceleration program. This position provides an opportunity to lead technical deployments that strengthen the Navy’s data infrastructure, operational workflows, and digital capabilities.

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain Palantir Foundry platform capabilities and enterprise solutions.
• Build and maintain data connectivity, model connectivity, ontology structures, applications, integrations, and developer tool chains.
• Work directly with customers and operational stakeholders to identify needs and customize Foundry solutions for specific business and mission outcomes.
• Decompose complex business and operational problems into practical technical requirements and scalable solutions.
• Lead Foundry implementation activities from discovery and solution architecture through configuration, deployment, integration, and production support.
• Integrate Foundry with databases, APIs, cloud services, enterprise applications, analytics platforms, and other external systems.
• Design and maintain ontology objects, relationships, actions, and workflows that support operational use cases.
• Build or support data pipelines, transformations, models, applications, and dashboards required for customer deployments.
• Make independent technical decisions and resolve complex architecture, integration, performance, and deployment issues.
• Ensure deployments and platform updates meet data governance, cybersecurity, security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Establish technical standards, reusable components, engineering practices, and implementation processes.
• Partner with program managers, developers, data engineers, data governance teams, domain leads, and Navy stakeholders.
• Communicate technical designs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Conduct solution demonstrations, gather user feedback, and refine deployed capabilities.
• Standardize best practices and support the adoption and scaling of Foundry across programs and stakeholder groups.
• Provide technical leadership, conduct solution reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Nine or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, solutions architecture, systems integration, technical consulting, or a related field.
• Four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree, for a total of at least 13 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with data connectivity, model connectivity, ontology development,…