Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA (Remote - must reside in the Arlington, VA area)

Clearance: Active Secret Clearance required

The Role

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr FDE) serves as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, pipeline implementation, and overall delivery quality of Army Vantage dashboards and data workflows.You will coordinate directly with government stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver operational analytics capabilities that support force management and readiness decisions.

Senior FDEs independently own complex implementation tasks from design through production, mentor junior engineers, and ensure sprint deliverables meet operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines within Army Vantage (Palantir Foundry), including automated build, test, deployment, and environment promotion workflows

Build and iterate front-end analytical dashboards using Foundry's Workshop/Slate application layer

Define and enforce automated quality gates, validation suites, and release confidence checks

Configure observability tooling including monitoring, logging, and alerting aligned to Foundry development patterns

Implement governed metric definitions and reusable business logic anchored to the Foundry Ontology

Participate in agile sprint cycles, including planning, standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives

Demonstrate working capabilities to government stakeholders

Align integration patterns, data access controls, and release procedures with platform requirements

Deliver comprehensive technical documentation, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks

Provide defect resolution, troubleshooting, and incremental improvements

Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance

Preferred Qualifications

Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry, including pipelines, Workshop/Slate, Ontology configuration, and AIP

8+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience

Experience delivering CI/CD pipelines and analytics platforms in classified or DoD environments

Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Java within Foundry development workflows

Familiarity with Army Vantage, GFIM, force management, or readiness data domains

Ability to own full feature lifecycle: architecture build test deployment