Product Delivery Manager - Palantir
Contract position: 12 months, hybrid onsite in Rosemead, CA (Tuesday & Wednesday required). Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY U.S. employer; sponsorship is not available.
About the Role
Ongoing operational support for the Grid Resiliency portfolio, managing the PSPS application build in Palantir Foundry. This role requires expertise in software code development, code management, and reuse to deliver high-quality, modular code within Foundry's Code Repositories & Function repositories. The position focuses on implementation and configuration of Palantir software, including pipeline and ETL maintenance, ontology maintenance with governance, and integration of SaaS and public cloud-based PaaS solutions.
You will provide Foundry overall architectural governance expertise and guidance, collaborate with infrastructure service providers and third-party vendors, and support business processes across an integrated enterprise service delivery model. This includes application maintenance services, major enhancements, new application system development, and ensuring reliability of underlying compute agents, hosting infrastructure, and operational services required for Palantir Foundry.
Responsibilities
- Provide ongoing operational support for the Grid Resiliency portfolio, managing PSPS application build in Foundry Palantir
- Implement reusable transform logic and shared libraries within Foundry's Code Repositories & Function repositories
- Manage version control, branching strategies, and code reviews to ensure high-quality, modular code
- Ensure code is optimized for Foundry's distributed execution environment and applies best practices for maintainability and long-term reuse
- Maintain pipeline and ETL processes with quality control measures
- Maintain ontology, including access, change process, and governance
- Develop, configure, integrate, and support application system components required to deliver business processes and functional requirements (e.g., logical layers of databases, data marts, logical and physical data warehouses, middleware, configuration of analytics and BI reporting tools)
- Provide Foundry overall architectural governance expertise and guidance, including ontology design and governance, pipeline and DAG execution architecture, aligning with the client's standards
- Configure application systems and collaborate with infrastructure service providers to provide application access to external/third parties
- Develop, enhance, integrate, and maintain workshop, dashboard, pipeline builder, Quiver dashboard, and automations to ensure end-to-end business functionality is maintained
- Collaborate with third-party providers such as infrastructure service providers and Edison enterprise public cloud providers
- Support all activities required to deliver required application and business functions to end users in an integrated service delivery model across the enterprise support model (plan, deliver, run)
- Perform application maintenance services, including major enhancements, new application system development, system projects, break/fix services, patch releases, and enhancement development and deployment in accordance with approved services
- Document and maintain methodologies, policies, processes, OLAs, and operational interaction models and RACIs for parties involved in ADM activities
- Achieve service levels and receive services in accordance with mandated PSPS wildfire guidelines and CPUC guidelines
- Support the underlying compute agents, hosting infrastructure, and operational services required for Palantir Foundry to run reliably
- Utilize Palantir Foundry architecture expertise, including ontology design and governance, pipeline and DAG execution architecture, application and hosting infrastructure, integration patterns, and deployment lifecycle management to safely modify, enhance, or re-architect existing Foundry deployments without disrupting ontology-aligned data flows or downstream applications
- Deliver agile application maintenance services, ensuring consistency and integration between Agile/DevOps service delivery methods across plan, deliver, and run phases
- Optimize the operation and functionality of application systems
- Drive continual application system portfolio optimization and rationalization
- Use Foundry's Resource Management application to analyze compute consumption, pipeline execution cost, storage utilization, and workload efficiency, and provide accurate cost calculations and optimization recommendations based on Foundry's native resource tracking capabilities
- Participate in on-call rotation, including occasional off-hours response
- Perform root cause analysis and drive post-incident improvements
- Communicate incident status clearly to stakeholders and make high-stakes decisions under time pressure
Requirements
- Software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack fundamentals with depth in data platforms
- Experience designing and maintaining applications
- Proficiency in Python and Typescript
- Understanding of data pipeline architecture
- Familiarity with Palantir Foundry
- Ability to own technical outcomes end-to-end without close supervision
- Experience with front-end design (Palantir Foundry Workshop preferred)
- Experience in making architectural trade-off decisions
- Ability to identify risks early and escalate appropriately
- Strong communication skills for stakeholder updates
- Comfortable working through ambiguous problems in live production environments
- Experience in complex operational workflows with tight support timelines
Preferred Skills
- Experience in data engineering or related roles
- Experience with Python for data processing and pipeline development
- Strong proficiency in Python, including frameworks like Spark or Polars
- Experience with Foundry Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, or Data Connection
- Familiarity with Ontology design and object-based data modelling
- Understanding of data lineage and impact analysis
- Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance issues
- Experience translating business logic into pipeline implementations
- Ability to assess the downstream impact of data issues and communicate appropriately
- Business functional knowledge and utility experience focused on grid resiliency
Pay
$61.29–$70.68 / hour (USD)
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
About the Client
Major California electric utility delivering power to millions. Committed to reliable, clean energy, we serve a vast region spanning central, coastal, and Southern California. We're pioneers in sustainable energy solutions, reducing carbon emissions, and improving air quality. Join our diverse team of problem-solvers and contribute to a greener planet. We power California's future.
About GTT
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.