Project Manager Palantir Foundry Initiatives

Project Manager – Palantir Foundry Initiatives

Houston, TX 77074 (100% Onsite Role)

6-12+ Months Contract (Potential Long Term)

Pay Range: $40-45/hr on W2 + Medical Benefits

Interview: 2 or 3 interviews

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Palantir Foundry initiatives or similar enterprise data and analytics platform implementations, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

• Partner with Product Owners, platform developers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.

• Manage Agile/Hybrid project execution, including backlog planning, sprint coordination, release planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Data & Analytics, Enterprise Applications, Cloud, Infrastructure, Integration, Security, and business organizations.

• Support development and implementation of data pipelines, data products, analytics applications, workflows, and operational use cases by coordinating technical and business teams.

• Track project schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, resource utilization, and delivery metrics through effective project governance.

• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee reviews, and executive communications to drive decisions and maintain alignment.

• Collaborate with architecture, security, and data governance teams to ensure platform implementations align with enterprise standards and requirements.

• Coordinate testing, UAT, release readiness, production deployments, and post-implementation stabilization activities.

• Manage vendor coordination, resource planning, technical dependencies, and delivery risks across complex data and analytics initiatives.

• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, team collaboration, platform adoption, and Agile execution.

• Build strong relationships with business and technical leadership while providing proactive delivery oversight, issue resolution, and executive-level reporting.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of Project/Program Management experience delivering enterprise technology, Data & Analytics, data platform, or digital transformation initiatives.

• Experience managing Palantir Foundry implementations or product teams is highly preferred; candidates with project management experience on similar enterprise data, analytics, AI, or cloud data platforms will also be considered.

• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, data engineering, data integration, analytics, cloud technologies, APIs, and data transformation initiatives.

• Proven experience managing Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Hybrid delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, release coordination, and dependency management.

• Proficiency with project management and Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, and/or Primavera P6, with strong stakeholder and executive communication skills.

If you possess these qualifications and are excited about the prospect of contributing to dynamic team, we encourage you to apply.