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Lead Palantir Application Engineer

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Austin, TX, USA
Senior level
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Austin, TX, USA
Senior level
Lead technical design and engineering standards for Palantir Foundry applications. Guide architecture, data modeling, integrations, and platform enablement. Conduct design reviews, mentor engineers, manage cross-project technical planning, and act as escalation for production issues. Communicate technical tradeoffs to stakeholders and improve operational readiness, testing, and deployment practices.
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CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

How You’ll Create Opportunities in This Role 

  • Technical Direction and Solution Leadership: Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities. Define implementation approaches, guide architecture decisions, and ensure solutions are built with appropriate security, reliability, maintainability, and performance considerations. 

  • Engineering Standards and Patterns: Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications across project teams. 

  • Foundry Platform Enablement: Guide the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns. Help teams apply these capabilities consistently and appropriately. 

  • Design Reviews and Quality Oversight: Review complex designs and code, identify technical risks, challenge weak implementation approaches, and ensure applications are built to meet business goals and long-term support expectations. 

  • Mentorship and Team Development: Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers. Help raise the team’s capability by sharing knowledge, reviewing work, and supporting consistent engineering practices. 

  • Cross-Project Technical Planning: Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects. Partner with product owners, architects, and managers to align technical delivery with project and portfolio priorities. 

  • Production Support and Technical Escalation: Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues. Lead root-cause analysis, recommend durable fixes, and help improve monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness. 

  • Client Service and Communication: 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 the use of Foundry capabilities such as 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. Identify technical risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend practical approaches that can be supported over time. 

  • Engineering Standards: Establish and reinforce standards for code quality, testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational support across Foundry application teams. 

  • Application Engineering: Develop and review maintainable solutions using modern engineering practices and technologies such as 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, troubleshooting, and adoption of consistent engineering practices. 

  • Agentic Development: Experience using different LLMs. Knowledge of different models, experience working with MCP, and familiarity with different agentic coding frameworks. 

What You Will Need 

  • Experience:  5 years relevant experience required. 8 years of relevant experience preferred.

  • Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions preferred

  • Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts preferred

  • Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices preferred

  • Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred. 

  • Agentic development experience

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. 

  • Certifications/Licenses: None required. 

  • Travel: This position requires <10% travel. 


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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.


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