Senior Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer – Navy Audit Artifac

Position Title: Senior Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer - Navy Audit Artifact Management

Location: National Capital Region (Remote Eligible)

Job Type: Full Time

Level: Senior Engineer/Architect

Clearance: Secret

Job Summary

The Senior Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer will support development of a Navy audit artifact management and traceability platform within Palantir Foundry. This role will design and implement ontology-driven data models that link audit artifacts, financial controls, requirements, and audit evidence across enterprise systems within Palantir Foundry to support Navy Financial Management Digital Data Transformation (FMDDT) initiatives, audit readiness, artifact traceability, data governance requirements and ontology modeling to ensure traceability of audit artifacts, enhance financial controls, and improve audit readiness. The position collaborates with Navy FM, audit, and technical stakeholders to translate audit requirements into scalable semantic data structures that support audit readiness, traceability, and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Development & Ontology Design:

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  Design and configure ontology objects within Palantir Foundry to represent audit artifacts, requirements, controls, and supporting documentation.
  
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  Define relationships between ontology objects to support artifact traceability across audit lifecycle stages.
  
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  Develop and maintain data pipelines that ingest and transform financial, logistics, and property data sources into the ontology.
  
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  Configure object views and operational data structures that enable artifact tracking and lifecycle visibility.
  
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  Collaborate with data engineers and functional stakeholders to ensure ontology structures support audit workflows and reporting requirements.
  

Audit & Financial Support:

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  Collaborate with Navy financial management stakeholders to translate audit requirements into ontology structures and data models.
  
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  Support artifact traceability across audit lifecycle stages to strengthen audit response and reporting.
  
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  Ensure platform outputs support audit response and financial control validation.
  

Data Governance & Security:

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  Implement role-based access controls (RBAC) and segregation of duties (SoD).
  
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  Ensure compliance with DoD security, data governance, and IL4/IL5 requirements.
  
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  Support governance of audit artifact metadata, lineage tracking, and audit data integrity.
  

Platform Enablement & Stakeholder Engagement:

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  Develop operational applications, analytic views, and reporting structures within Foundry to support audit lifecycle visibility.
  
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  Prepare technical documentation and provide platform guidance to functional and technical users.
  
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  Collaborate with engineers and analysts supporting the platform modernization effort.
  
  

Qualifications

Education:

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  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  

Experience:

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  7+ years of enterprise data engineering, analytics development, or data architecture.
  
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  2+ years Palantir Foundry experience or experience working with comparable enterprise data platforms.
  
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  Experience designing or implementing semantic data models, ontologies, or knowledge graph architectures.
  
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  Experience with Navy FM, FMDDT, or financial system audit readiness initiatives.
  
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  Experience supporting audit response, financial management analytics, or compliance-driven systems preferred.
  

Skills:

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  Strong understanding of ontology modeling and semantic data architecture.
  
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  Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and transformation workflows.
  
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  Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and secure cloud environments.
  
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  Ability to translate business or audit requirements into technical data models.
  
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  Strong collaboration skills working across technical and functional teams.
  

Career Level Alignment:

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  Senior Engineer/Architect: 8+ years supporting enterprise data platforms, semantic data modeling, and data architecture initiatives.
  

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