Lead Data Engineer

L3Harris

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Work type: Remote
Location: Melbourne, FL
Salary: $127,000–$236,500 / yr
Posted: 57 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About L3Harris

L3Harris Technologies is a US aerospace and defense technology company providing space and airborne systems, communications, electronic warfare, and missile propulsion solutions for government and commercial customers.

L3Harris currently has 860 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Lead Data Engineer

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The Lead, Data Engineer joins the Enterprise Data and AI team to manage enterprise-level data life cycle processes. This role involves overseeing data ETL/ELT pipelines, maintaining data frameworks, conducting data cleansing, and orchestrating data consolidation. The individual will build scalable data solutions, maintain ontologies, and develop dashboards within Palantir Foundry to provide actionable insights. Key responsibilities include providing architectural oversight, performing requirements decomposition, and supporting the software development lifecycle. Required technical skills include Palantir Foundry, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, and Python. Preferred competencies include Databricks, JavaScript, Typescript, PySpark, and Spark SQL. The role focuses on the Unified Data Layer, solving the business problem of ensuring seamless, reliable access to clean data for decision-makers across the entire organization.

Skills

Palantir Foundry Python PySpark Spark SQL ETL ELT Data Pipelines Azure Data Factory SSIS Databricks Snowflake Pandas JavaScript Typescript RAG LLM OpenAI Data Modeling SDLC Data Governance

What you'll do

Provide architectural oversight for the company’s data platform to ensure alignment with standards and best practices.
Lead design reviews for data sourcing, pipelines, data models, and ontology resources to enhance scalability.
Develop architectural artifacts, perform requirements decomposition, and create documentation to support the software development lifecycle.
Oversee data pipeline development to ensure scalability, reusability, and high performance.
Utilize Palantir Foundry to perform data integration and ontology management for big data analytics.
Define data governance, metadata, and ontology standards with cross-functional teams to ensure enterprise consistency.
Monitor emerging data technologies to recommend continuous improvements to the data platform architecture.

What we're looking for

Must have a Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of Palantir experience, a Graduate degree and 7 years of Palantir experience, or 13 years of Palantir experience.
Minimum of 4 years of experience with Data Pipeline development or ETL tools such as Palantir Foundry, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, or Python.
Minimum of 4 years of experience in Data Integration.
Must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for required security clearances.
Experience supporting or implementing solutions that leverage Generative AI capabilities, including RAG, semantic search, and LLM integration (preferred).
Experience with Palantir Foundry tools such as Ontology Manager, Compass, Code Repository, Solution Designer, OSDK, AI FDE, and AIP Analyst (preferred).
Experience with Python, Pandas, Databricks, JavaScript, Typescript, or other scripting languages (preferred).
Experience with AI tools such as OpenAI, Palantir AIP, Snowflake Cortex, or similar (preferred).

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