Business Intelligence Senior Specialist

Preferred hybrid/onsite in Jacksonville, FL (possibly remote based on exception). Temporary W2 role—no C2C.

About the role

NTT DATA is seeking a Business Intelligence Senior Specialist to develop, enhance, and maintain Palantir Foundry pipelines and related data-processing components.

Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance, and maintain Palantir Foundry pipelines based on business requirements, production issues, and data-processing needs.
• Add or modify input stream pipelines to support changes to existing streams and onboard new data streams.
• Develop, modify, and maintain User-Defined Functions (UDFs) required for data transformation and business logic.
• Implement and update ABD business rules within rules-processing pipelines.
• Publish ABD passing events and alerts to Kafka topics for downstream applications and integrations.
• Analyze pipelines, datasets, and processing results to identify and resolve issues found during testing and validation.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data-quality issues, transformation problems, and streaming-data discrepancies.
• Merge approved pipeline and UDF changes into the master branch and manage code changes through the development lifecycle.
• Promote/copy master-branch pipelines from the staging environment to production following established deployment procedures.
• Deploy and replay pipelines as required for releases, data corrections, rule changes, and production support.
• Validate pipeline and data outputs after deployments to ensure changes are functioning as expected.
• Maintain the rules metadata spreadsheet with the latest rules information from Oracle.
• Perform technical analysis and solution design for new requirements, including proof-of-concept or trailblazing activities where needed.
• Coordinate with external/upstream teams regarding changes to input streams, schemas, and data interfaces.
• Work closely with the CSX Palantir Support team to deploy and validate pipelines in the staging environment.
• Collaborate with business, development, testing, and support teams throughout development, testing, deployment, and production-support activities.

Requirements

• Minimum 1+ years hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including development and maintenance of data pipelines.
• Minimum 1+ years' experience developing and supporting batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Minimum 1+ year's experience developing or modifying UDFs and data-transformation logic.
• 5+ years of experience working with Kafka, including publishing data/events to Kafka topics.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases such as Oracle.
• 5+ years of experience implementing and maintaining business rules and rules-processing pipelines.
• 5+ years of experience with Git/source control, including branching, merging, and master/main branch management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with advanced Palantir Foundry capabilities, including streaming pipelines, dataset management, and pipeline orchestration.
• Experience designing real-time/event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Knowledge of Oracle databases, metadata management, and rule configuration.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes for data pipelines.
• Experience with pipeline replay, backfill, recovery, and production-support activities.
• Understanding of data quality, data validation, lineage, and monitoring concepts.
• Experience conducting proof-of-concepts and technical design/trailblazing for new requirements.
• Experience coordinating upstream and downstream data contracts, schema changes, and stream integrations.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale data platforms and high-volume data-processing environments.
• Ability to independently investigate ambiguous technical requirements and recommend scalable solutions.

Pay

The starting hourly range for this role is $75 to $87. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending or health savings account.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance program.
• Participation in a 401k program with company match.
• Additional voluntary or legally required benefits.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We help clients innovate, optimize, and transform for long-term success through services including business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, and the development, implementation, and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity.