Forward Deployed Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 4, 2026.
Were looking for a growth-oriented FDE with strong hands-on Palantir Foundry expertise and experience across Commercial, Marketing, CRM & Digital Growth.
Location : Bengaluru/Gurugram/Mumbai/Coimbatore
Preferred : Immediate Joiners
Responsibilities :
- Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Growth, and Sales leaders to identify customer and revenue growth opportunities.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into data-driven products, applications, and workflows using Palantir Foundry.
- Build and productionize Foundry Ontology, Workshop applications, data pipelines, transforms, and operational workflows.
- Integrate and activate data across CRM, customer, sales, marketing, social, media, digital, campaign, and transactional platforms.
- Develop rapid prototypes and experiments, gather business-user feedback, and iterate quickly.
- Use analytics and AI to identify customer opportunities, growth levers, and actionable recommendations for business teams.
- Define and test growth hypotheses and measure outcomes across acquisition, conversion, engagement, retention, and revenue.
- Work directly with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive solutions through the full lifecycle from concept and prototype to production, adoption, and measurable business impact.
- Continuously identify new opportunities where data, AI, and technology can improve commercial and marketing performance.
Required Skills :
Technical :
- Strong hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry.
- Proven experience with Foundry Ontology, Workshop, data pipelines/transforms, and operational workflows.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- PySpark experience preferred.
- Experience integrating data from CRM, marketing, sales, digital, social/media, and enterprise platforms.
- Experience building business-facing data products and applications.
- Exposure to Palantir AIP and AI/LLM-enabled workflows is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, analytics, and production data solutions.
- Strong understanding of digital growth, CRM, customer journeys, marketing analytics, and commercial analytics.
- Familiarity with metrics including CAC, conversion, engagement, retention, LTV, ROAS, campaign effectiveness, price elasticity, promotion effectiveness, product mix, net revenue, gross margin, and trade spend.
- Strong experimentation and hypothesis-driven problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to identify opportunities from data and translate insights into business actions and measurable outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work directly with senior Commercial and Marketing leaders.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, client-facing environments.
Skills
Palantir Foundry, Ontology Engineering, Data Pipeline, SQL, Python, PySpark, Data Modeling, Data Analytics