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You'll set the architectural direction for Foundry, build and maintain the core data infrastructure, and work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver reliable, scalable data products.\nAs the most experienced Foundry engineer in the team, you'll mentor and guide other engineers and analysts, establish standards and best practices, and drive the technical roadmap as the platform scales.\nThis role is ideal for someone who combines deep, hands-on Foundry expertise with the confidence to lead technically-someone who can architect at scale, get into the details when it matters, and bring others along with them.\nWhat You'll be Doing (Responsibilities)\nLead the design and architecture of Nscale's Foundry implementation, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term data integrity.\n\nDefine the technical strategy for Foundry development, aligning with business objectives and the programme-wide data roadmap.\n\nAct as the technical authority on Foundry across the organisation-setting standards, driving architectural decisions, and owning the evolution of the platform.\n\nConduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in data modelling, pipeline development, and integration.\n\nMentor engineers and analysts working within the Foundry environment, raising technical capability and quality across the team.\n\nDesign and build scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest data from infrastructure, platform services, and business systems.\n\nDefine data models, schemas, and ontology structures that support operational workflows and use cases across the business.\n\nClean, transform, and structure data to create a digital twin of Nscale.\n\nImplement permissioning and manage access and security of the Foundry implementation.\n\nCreate trusted datasets and metrics that power workflows, internal tools, and customer-facing insights.\n\nEnable self-service analytics by establishing clear data contracts, documentation, and semantic layers.\n\nBuild use cases including, but not limited to:\nCapacity planning\n\nCost optimisation\n\nReliability analysis\n\nCustomer reporting\n\nCollaborate with Product and Commercial teams to translate real-world business questions into robust data solutions.\n\nImplement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data correctness and availability.\n\nCodify data lineage, freshness, and consistency across systems.\n\nEstablish and enforce governance standards around data versioning, access control, and compliance appropriate for a fast-scaling company.\n\nOversee the integration of Foundry with existing systems and data sources, ensuring seamless data flows.\n\nProfile and Required Skills\nDeep, hands-on expertise in Palantir Foundry, including ontology modelling, pipeline development, data architecture, and large-scale platform design.\n\nProven experience providing technical leadership-setting architectural direction, mentoring 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