Data Platform Architect - Palantir Foundry, Data Engineeringr - US-CA-Fremont (1003), United States
$137,000 - $287,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 August 2026 by the employer.
This role is focused on architecting solutions within Palantir Foundry.
About the role
This role leads platform architecture, integration, and solution design in Palantir Foundry for enterprise data, analytics, and AI use cases. The solution architect will focus on building trusted data assets, integration patterns, semantic models, and platform standards that support AI-driven business outcomes and long-term operational readiness.
What you'll do
- Design and architect scalable data pipelines in Palantir Foundry, enabling seamless ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data across enterprise systems.
- Develop and maintain robust Palantir Foundry Ontologies to model business entities, relationships, and operational workflows.
- Build end-to-end data workflows leveraging Palantir Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, and operational applications, integrating with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power BI, SQL, Python/PySpark, and cloud data services.
- Leverage Palantir native capabilities such as Foundry Ontology SDK, data lineage, governance, and access controls to deliver secure, reusable, and production-grade data assets.
- Define standards and best practices for modular design, data security, access management, performance optimization, testing, and scalable deployment within the Palantir ecosystem.
- Mentor engineering teams, promote consistent engineering practices, and evaluate emerging technologies that enhance analytics, AI enablement, automation, and platform operations.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience in data architecture, platform engineering, cloud data platforms, analytics, digital transformation, or enterprise data modernization initiatives.
- Deep expertise in Palantir Foundry, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, Operational Applications, Ontology SDK, data lineage, governance, and platform administration.
- Strong experience with modern data platforms such as Palantir, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse, or equivalent cloud-native analytics ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of Palantir ontology modeling, lakehouse architecture, data warehousing, semantic modeling, enterprise integration patterns, and operational analytics.
- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry security and governance frameworks, including user access management, data lineage, SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, Python/PySpark, and enterprise analytics solutions.
- Strong understanding of data governance, Lifecycle, metadata, lineage, access control, and data quality frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience with SAP, MES, Kinaxis, supply chain, planning, manufacturing, service systems, APIs, or operational databases.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, Data Science, Analytics, or a relevant Engineering field; Master's or PhD preferred.
Skills: data platform architect, scalable data pipelines, Palantir Foundry, Ontologies, AI-driven business outcomes
This role has been open 71 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
962
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | Lam Research | All employers we track in this specialty (962 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 962 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 78 | 6114 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 59 d | 51 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: data platform architect, scalable data pipelines, Palantir Foundry, Ontologies, AI-driven business outcomes
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 274 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 19 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 12 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 962 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.