Solution Architect – Palantir Foundry

Solution Architect – Palantir Foundry (1099)

Location: Seattle, WA, USA (Remote eligible)
Employment Type: Full-time, 2-month freelance/1099 engagement with possibility for extension
Practice Area: Digital Strategy & Transformation
Level: III
Years of Experience: 5-10
Compensation: USD $142 - $162 hourly

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect, you will influence and define best practices, design patterns, and architecture. You'll provide thought leadership to a diverse group of stakeholders, drawing on your extensive experience to design and prototype innovative solutions throughout every stage of the process, mentoring other team members along the way.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with client stakeholders and internal teams, translating solution design into scalable, production‑ready Palantir Foundry implementations.
• Design, build, and manage data pipelines in Palantir Foundry to ingest, process, and correlate real‑time data (streaming).
• Hands-on Palantir solution architect during implementation, owning the on-the-ground architecture and supporting multiple teams during build-out and delivery.
• Develop data assets and transformation logic using PySpark.

About You

• You're passionate about enabling teams to design solutions that drive business value.
• Working closely with business stakeholders, lead engineers, product managers, and analysts, you can design solutions through the full lifecycle, from conception to market.
• You're equally comfortable discussing technical concepts with business professionals and business concepts with technical professionals.
• You can lead small development teams within a matrixed environment.
• You can collaborate with consulting and sales representatives to identify opportunities, develop, and pitch solutions based on a business case, and work closely with clients to generate the outcomes.
• You're adaptable to frequent change and comfortable making decisions with limited information in dynamic situations.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect at a management consulting firm, or in a client-facing role, with proven responsibility for delivering high-impact customer solutions.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data engineer, designing and developing data pipelines.
• Strong experience in Palantir Foundry and PySpark.
• Deep experience in streaming data architecture and integrating data from various sources.
• Experience creating architectural diagrams, including Sequence Diagrams, Deployment Diagrams, and State Diagrams
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles, including Authentication, Login, SSO, and Active Directory integration.
• Knowledge of data retention and security best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Availability to work between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm Pacific Time (PT).
• Ability to travel up to one week per month.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the utilities industry.
• Experience as an application developer using Java and TypeScript.