Foundry Engineering Lead
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead the design, architecture, and governance of Nscale's Foundry implementation, defining technical strategy and standards for the internal data platform. Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers and analysts, and build scalable pipelines that ingest data from infrastructure and business systems. Establish data models, ontologies, and semantic layers to create trusted datasets powering capacity planning, cost optimization, and customer reporting. Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and access controls while codifying lineage and enforcing compliance standards. Collaborate with Product and Commercial teams to translate business questions into robust data solutions and enable self-service analytics through clear data contracts.
Required Qualifications
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Palantir Foundry, including ontology modelling, pipeline development, data architecture, and large-scale platform design
- Proven experience providing technical leadership—setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and defining standards in a data engineering context
- Strong proficiency in Python, with experience applying data engineering frameworks (e.g. Spark, PySpark, Dask, pandas) to large, complex datasets
- Familiarity with API-driven data integration, including REST, GraphQL, and Foundry Action APIs
- Experience with Git-based development workflows, including code reviews, version control, and CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication skills—able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where requirements evolve quickly
- A bias toward ownership, pragmatism, and delivering useful solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure telemetry
- Familiarity with distributed systems, monitoring data, or usage-based billing data
- Experience supporting customer-facing data products or platforms
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