Staff Engineer, Data

🔥 13 hours ago

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $161k - $241.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Northrop Grumman

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1939

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Logistics • Defense

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense company, recognized for its innovative solutions in air, cyber, land, sea, and space domains. With a focus on advanced technologies and innovation, Northrop Grumman provides unmatched expertise in military communications, satellite communications, and microelectronics manufacturing. The company is committed to solving complex challenges and 'defining possible' by transforming the concepts of what's achievable. Northrop Grumman is also actively involved in sustainability efforts and offers career opportunities to various levels of professionals, including veterans and entry-level candidates.

📋 Description

• Own the technical and ontological architecture of the Palantir Foundry platform across all Arsenal portfolios • Develop and maintain a unified Foundry ontology strategy across portfolios and applications • Establish and enforce naming conventions, modeling standards, and object lifecycle governance • Assess existing ontology objects, identify technical debt, and prioritize remediation • Create and maintain data dictionaries, lineage maps, relationship diagrams, and other authoritative ontology documentation • Define reference architecture patterns for pipelines, transforms, and integrations • Serve as final technical reviewer and approver for new solution designs • Maintain architecture decision records documenting key design choices and rationales • Act as primary escalation point and design partner for sustainment developers • Improve sustainment ticket resolution through documentation, dependency clarity, and standardized patterns • Build feedback loops between sustainment and architecture to drive proactive remediation • Lead technical assessment of ERP migration impacts on Foundry, including pipelines, connectors, and ontology objects • Assess and mitigate risks to applications dependent on ERP data • Define phased migration and cutover approach with ERP program leadership • Own post-migration validation of ontology integrity, data lineage, and platform stability • Establish a living architecture repository for standards, patterns, diagrams, and decision logs • Integrate durable documentation practices into the delivery lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12+ years of experience in data/platform architecture, or a Master’s degree and 10+ years of experience • Required to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret level security clearance as a condition of continued employment • Significant hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including ontology design, pipelines, transforms (code and no-code), and the application layer • Experience designing or governing an enterprise ontology or data model across multiple applications, business units, or functional domains • Experience leading or significantly contributing to a major system or platform migration, such as ERP or data platform migration • Proven track record transforming complex, inconsistently built environments into documented, governed, and maintainable architectures • Ability to act as a neutral technical authority across competing stakeholder groups and influence without direct reporting authority • Strong communication skills for working with technical teams and business/functional stakeholders • Strong background in software development and architecture, with deep experience in databases and data architecture • Ability to evaluate solution paths across Palantir Foundry, SAP, existing applications, and other technologies • U.S. citizenship required for positions with government clearance • Preferred: Experience with SAP or major ERP systems • Preferred: Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or defense/aerospace environments • Preferred: Experience establishing an architecture governance function • Preferred: Familiarity with organizational change management practices • Preferred: Palantir Foundry certifications or equivalent platform depth • Preferred: Experience challenging and reshaping technically unsound requests constructively

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Phenomenal learning opportunities • Exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers • Friendly team environment • Health insurance coverage • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Savings plan • Company-paid holidays • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business • 9/80 work schedule • 401(k) matching program • Potential overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay