Consultant - Senior Consultant, Palantir Foundry Data Engineer, AI & Data, Defence & Security

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We are growing our Palantir capability within Technology and Transformation. If you hold or are eligible and willing to obtain a security clearance up to DV level, and want to grow your career in this sector, we are very keen to hear from you.

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As a practitioner, you will leverage your expertise in Palantir Foundry to bridge the gap between our customers' needs and technical solutions. Your primary responsibility will be to make data valuable for our Defence & Security clients, by designing, developing, and deploying robust solutions across the Palantir stack, turning data into accessible, trusted information assets, enabling the derivation of actionable insights through the Ontology.

In your role, you will have responsibility for deliverables and client stakeholder relationships and will be delivering solutions for our clients using agile methodologies. You will often be working in multi-disciplinary teams across a range of industries, subject matters, and locations.

Our projects vary greatly and your responsibility as a consultant will differ based on the focus of the client engagement and your skillset, but could include and may require you to:

• Apply Palantir Foundry's suite of data engineering tools to create high-quality, standardised data assets within the Foundry platform for downstream use cases, such as AI, operational applications, and reporting.
• Design and implement robust, scalable data pipelines and data models within Palantir Foundry, leveraging its capabilities for data ingestion, transformation, and storage, coordinating efforts with other developers and engineers.
• Bring innovation and novel approaches to solve challenging data engineering problems within the Palantir ecosystem, optimising data flows and leveraging advanced Foundry features such as artifacts and compute modules.
• Architect and implement Palantir Foundry solutions for scale and complexity, ensuring they provide maximum value across diverse teams and consumers, particularly through the development of the Foundry Ontology.
• Develop logical and physical data modelling and governance strategy within Palantir Foundry, establishing standards across teams and ensuring data quality and lineage.
• Develop user-facing applications within the Palantir stack, leveraging either low-code or pro-code methods.

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All applicants must be willing and eligible to apply and obtain UK security clearance to Developed Vetting level, if not holding an existing clearance.

Candidates will have hands-on experience with one or more technologies relevant to these areas, with a strong emphasis on Palantir Foundry and Gotham:

• Ingesting, transforming, enriching, and integrating data from diverse sources into well-structured information assets within Palantir Foundry.
• Designing, building, and optimising ETL processes, data pipelines, and automated workflows for moving and processing data using Palantir Foundry tools.
• Optimising data systems for performance, scalability, reliability, and monitoring within Palantir Foundry.
• Data governance, including metadata management, data quality, and lineage tracking, specifically within Palantir Foundry's capabilities.
• Building and maintaining military workflows in Palantir Gotham

We are specifically looking for candidates with both technical and business focused skills, who can articulate the outcomes and value of their work, and have working experience in some of the following:

• End-to-end development experience with data pipelines, ETL processes, and workflow orchestration, with demonstrable experience in Palantir Foundry and Gotham.
• Working with diverse data sources and types – batch, streaming, real-time, and unstructured – and integrating them into Palantir Foundry.
• Systems thinking and architectural design skills for building scalable, high-performance data solutions within Palantir Foundry.
• Data modelling, Ontology design, and database optimisation knowledge, with samples of logical/physical models that reflect proficiency within a Foundry context.
• Ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune Palantir Foundry pipelines for reliability and performance.
• Coding experience that demonstrates modularity, reusability, and efficiency – across languages such as Python and TypeScript.
• Understanding full development lifecycle, SDLC concepts, version control, and CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.
• Knowledge of data security, governance, metadata management, and master data principles, with specific experience applying these across the Palantir stack.

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“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology and Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Manchester with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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