Lead Palantir Application Engineer

About the Role

At CLA, a top 10 national professional services firm, you’ll lead technical design and solution leadership for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities. This role involves defining implementation approaches, guiding architecture decisions, and ensuring solutions meet security, reliability, maintainability, and performance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design for Palantir Foundry applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications.
• Guide the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns.
• Review complex designs and code, identify technical risks, challenge weak implementation approaches, and ensure applications meet business goals and long-term support expectations.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers to raise team capability.
• Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects; align technical delivery with project and portfolio priorities.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and recommend durable fixes.
• Communicate technical options, risks, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to business users, technology teams, vendors, management, and senior leaders.

Technical Competencies

• Palantir Foundry Leadership: Guide application teams in using Foundry capabilities (Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns).
• Solution Architecture: Lead solution design for complex applications, integrations, workflows, and data models; evaluate tradeoffs and recommend practical, sustainable approaches.
• Engineering Standards: Establish and reinforce standards for code quality, testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Application Engineering: Develop and review maintainable solutions using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, APIs, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD concepts.
• Data and Integration: Guide data modeling, transformation, integration, data quality, and connection patterns for enterprise systems, files, databases, APIs, and Foundry-based solutions.
• Technical Mentorship: Coach engineers through design decisions, implementation challenges, code reviews, and adoption of consistent engineering practices.
• Agentic Development: Experience using different LLMs, knowledge of various models, experience with MCP, and familiarity with agentic coding frameworks.

Requirements

• 5 years of relevant experience required (8 years preferred).
• Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions.
• Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts.
• Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred.
• Agentic development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required; combination of relevant experience, education, and training may substitute for degree.

Travel for this position is less than 10%.

Benefits

CLA offers comprehensive benefits to support physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Additional wellness-focused benefits (view the complete list of benefits).