Director, Integrated Business Tools

Responsibilities

• Partner with core business groups, Engineering, Finance, IT/ET, Legal, Operations, and People teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable tools and capabilities built on Palantir Foundry.
• Define and own the long-term roadmap for the suite of applications, workflows, and data integrations Saronic builds on Palantir Foundry across its core business groups.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and architectural patterns for building on Palantir Foundry (AIP, Ontology, Pipelines, Workshop, and related capabilities).
• Lead hiring, development, and performance management of a high-performing team of Product Leads, FDEs, Data Engineers and Quality Assurance.
• Balance near-term feature delivery and urgent operational needs with longer-term platform health, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
• Drive integrations in partnership with cross-functional systems owners between Foundry and source systems to reduce manual workflows and create a unified data and operational experience across the company.
• Establish governance frameworks, change management processes, and vendor management practices.
• Deliver executive-level reporting on platform health, project status, and team performance.
• Manage the Palantir relationship and contract negotiations, along with implementation partners that feed the Foundry ecosystem.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all business platforms in coordination with IT and Legal teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building business applications, data platforms, or enterprise tooling, including hands-on experience delivering capabilities on Palantir Foundry.
• 3+ years of experience managing teams of engineers, developers, or system administrators.
• Proven track record delivering complex, multi-system implementations in a fast-scaling environment.
• Deep familiarity with Palantir Foundry — Ontology, data pipelines, Workshop/application building, and integrating source systems (ERP, HRIS, CRM, financial systems) into the platform.
• Strong executive communication skills — able to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders and business priorities for technical teams.
• Experience setting software engineering standards, evaluating when to build custom capabilities on Foundry versus buy off-the-shelf, and managing vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to balance tactical execution with long-term platform strategy.
• Experience supporting a scaling defense, aerospace, or hardware manufacturing company.
• Background in system integration patterns (APIs, ETL, iPaaS) and workflow automation.
• Familiarity with government contracting environments and compliance requirements (CMMC, ITAR, export control).
• Hands-on experience developing on Palantir Foundry, or with Palantir Gotham/Apollo, in a production environment.