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# Palantir Data Engineer

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $77,000.0 - $129,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Validation, Information Engineering, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Data Processing, Information Technology, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4b7d62e805c60eda

## About the Role

* ACTIVE and MAINTAINED SECRET Federal or DoD security clearance.
 * Bachelor's degree
 * THREE (3) years' experience in hands-on data engineering and/or database management.
 * Experience using Palantir Foundry to clean, transform, and integrate complex datasets into production systems (e.g., Archibus).
 * Experience reading and cleaning data from external tables and importing it into relational database tables.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

 * SIX (6) years' experience in hands-on data engineering and/or database management.
 * Knowledge of Archibus and/or Kahua.
 * Proficiency in querying and joining datasets using SQL.
 * Proficiency in data wrangling and analysis using Python. Proficiency developing dashboards using Tableau or Power BI.

## Description

The Data Engineer will join a dynamic team supporting a global implementation of IT systems at the Department of State. In this role, the candidate will review and support the client's data policies, processes, and standards to identify strengths and areas for improvement and provide recommendations for the current and future architecture to support data and analytical needs. The candidate will also collect, transform, integrate, and analyze data to identify trends, assess performance, and develop visualizations in support of organizational and mission goals and data-driven decision-making for the client.

Responsibilities may include:

 * Develop and maintain data governance documentation, tools, and templates.
 * Define data requirements and ensure storage, availability, and coherence of electronically stored information meets the client's needs.
 * Develop data pipelines involving collecting, transforming, cleaning, and validating data from multiple sources, using tools such as Palantir.
 * Coordinate with non-technical users to gather requirements.
 * Identify, summarize, and catalog data fidelity issues, and make recommendations to the client on how to resolve or mitigate the issues.
 * Request, document, report, and analyze data, and where applicable, create tools and resources to support data and reporting.