Platform Engineer - Palantir

About the role

The Platform Engineer - Palantir is the technical owner of Acrisure’s Palantir environment. This role is the internal-facing counterpart to FD Partner, FD Delta, and FD Echo, where these roles deploy value to business units. This role is intentionally designed as both senior and hands-on, setting the strategy for ingress and egress, marking and permissions architecture, environment topology, compute and storage cost optimization, release governance, and reusable component catalog.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-On Platform Operations
  • Actively configure and operate Palantir tenant settings across the platform stack.
  • Design and implement the ingress strategy: source system connections, connectors, schema management, and standards for incremental, batch, and streaming data flows.
  • Design and implement the egress strategy: Marketplace exports, OSDK and external API exposure, file/data export controls, and downstream consumption boundaries.
  • Own the permissions architecture across the platform — marking taxonomy, group hierarchy, role assignments, and least-privilege standards — and personally maintain the most sensitive configurations.
  • Personally triage and resolve platform admin issues — permissions, provisioning, ingress/egress configuration, and resource queue contention — rather than routing them to Platform Engineers or Palantir support.
  • Be a go-to resource for external teams leveraging the Palantir Platform and escalate questions and issues for resolution.
• Componentization & Reusability
  • Drive the platform-wide reusable component catalog — pipeline templates, Ontology patterns, Workshop building blocks, OSDK modules, Marketplace products, reusable agents, and shared utilities — covering both platform-management and business-facing use cases.
  • Establish standards for what gets componentized, how components are versioned and documented, and how they are discovered and consumed by FD Delta, FD Echo, and the broader Platform.
  • Partner with FD Delta and FD Echo to extract reusable patterns from delivered use cases, promote them into the catalog, and consolidate duplication across the portfolio.
  • Maintain a library of platform-management components — provisioning workflows, permissions templates, audit reports, cost dashboards — that the Platform Engineering team uses to operate the environment efficiently.
• Cost & Resource Optimization
  • Own end-to-end FinOps for the Palantir environment — usage forecasting, compute optimization, build schedule efficiency, storage tiering, and licensing utilization across all platform tools.
  • Establish resource quotas, project allocation models, and guardrails across the Platform portfolio to prevent runaway cost while enabling delivery velocity.
  • Identify and remediate cost anomalies in real time; partner with Finance on chargeback, showback, and capacity-based budgeting models.
  • Present cost-to-value tradeoffs, capacity decisions, and reusability ROI to the CTO and executive sponsors with supporting data, framed in business terms.
• Governance, Standards & Team Leadership
  • Establish and enforce platform governance standards: branching strategy, environment promotion (dev/staging/prod), release approvals, and change management — and define the SLAs for platform admin services that the Platform Engineering team commits to.
  • Drive the Palantir platform security posture in partnership with InfoSec and Data team — marking taxonomy, audit logging, sensitive data handling, and compliance support (SOC 2, NYDFS, GDPR, and other applicable regimes).
  • Maintain platform standards documentation and ensure adherence across FD Delta, FD Echo, Platform Engineering, and Palantir FD Team contributions.
  • Support the Platform Engineering team: contributing to mentorship, technical direction, and standards setting.
  • Support escalation triage for platform constraints raised by FD Partner, FD Delta, and FD Echo — and contribute technical input on platform-vs-delivery tradeoffs.
  • Career development opportunities.
    • Coordinate directly with Palantir on platform upgrades, feature rollouts, and capability roadmap alignment.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Palantir Platform Proficiency (Required — Not Optional)
• Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and SQL skills
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining shared component libraries, internal developer platforms, or reusable pattern catalogs
• Strong API design and abstraction instincts
• Documentation and developer-experience sensibility
• Platform Operations & FinOps
• Demonstrated experience operating an enterprise data platform at scale (Foundry, Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent)
• Strong FinOps fundamentals — usage forecasting, compute and storage cost optimization, chargeback model design, and capacity planning
• Experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment promotion strategies
• Governance & Security
• Working knowledge of enterprise security and access control patterns: RBAC, ABAC, attribute-based markings, least privilege, identity federation, and SSO
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, NYDFS, GDPR, HIPAA, or similar regulated environments
• Demonstrated comfort partnering with InfoSec, Internal Audit, and Enterprise Architecture peers — translating platform mechanics into language those audiences require
• Leadership & Communication
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a senior technical team — contributing to direction and standards while executing hands-on
• Ability to present platform cost, capacity, reusability, and risk tradeoffs to a CTO/CIO-level audience and to translate technical decisions into business outcomes
• Strong written communication skills — able to author governance documents, RFCs, architecture decision records, component specifications, and platform standards
• Experience 5–10+ years of experience operating, architecting, and administering enterprise platforms
• Prior Palantir Foundry administration experience strongly preferred; experienced platform leads from Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS/Azure-native enterprise data stacks are encouraged to apply
• Prior experience in insurance, financial services, or similarly regulated industries is a strong plus
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field