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# Palantir Technical Architect

- **Company:** Kainos
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £64,636.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Data as a Services, Data Integration, Data Stores, Data Systems, Data Virtualization, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Subsystems, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Data Ingestion, Change Data Capture, Data Analytics, Key-value Store, Databricks
- **Published:** July 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5789989548

## About the Role

* Experience of technical ownership for a component, sub-system or product (data ingestion, data streaming), including architecture, estimation, product planning and story creation

 * Proficient in client interaction including communication of technical decisions to non-technical audiences

 * Experience of applying standards for design (patterns), development (style guides), and operational readiness (automation, deployment)

 * Experience of designing, building and productionising modern, distributed data intensive applications

 * Experienced in Java, Scala or Python and comfortable with multiple programming paradigms (functional, OO)

 * Experience of deploying contemporary data stores such as object stores, document stores, key-value store, search, RDBMS, graph.

 * Software development experience with data-processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks

 * Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture or data virtualisation

DESIRABLE:

 * Comfortable with Data Warehouse methods and techniques

 * Actively shares their thoughts and views on data practices

 * AWS/Azure/GCP Certified in Data Services

 * Expertise in continuous improvement and sharing input on data best practice

 * Participation in development and/or technology communities

## Description

As a Palantir Technical Architect (Consultant) in Kainos, you'll be responsible for designing and delivering technical components as part of a larger data solution. You will work closely with Solution Architects and Customer Architects to integrate these components into quality data solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

 * Successfully implementing functional and non-functional designs

 * Working closely with customer architects to agree functional and non-functional designs, including estimated effort, technical implications, and complexity.

 * Setting technical standards and works with engineers to ensure standards are upheld

 * Managing and estimating timelines underpinning technical component delivery

 * Contributing or owning technical solution design as part of a pre-sales process

 * Making a significant contribution to the data analysis community and wider data and analytics capability

 * Managing, coaching and developing a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development. You'll also provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together


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