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Solution Architect – Palantir Foundry (1099) Location: Seattle, WA, USA (Remote eligible) Employment Type: Full-time, 2-month freelance/1099 engagement with possibility for extension Practice Area: Digital Strategy & Transformation Level: III Years of Experience: 5-10 Compensation: USD $142 - USD $162 hourly Role Overview As a Solution Architect, you will influence and define best practices, design patterns, and architecture. You'll provide thought leadership to a diverse group of stakeholders, drawing on your extensive experience to design and prototype innovative solutions throughout every stage of the process, mentoring other team members along the way. Role Responsibilities • Collaborate closely with client stakeholders and internal teams, translating solution design into scalable, production‑ready Palantir Foundry implementations. • Design, build, and manage data pipelines in Palantir Foundry to ingest, process, and correlate real‑time data (streaming). • Hands-on Palantir solution architect during implementation, owning the on-the-ground architecture and supporting multiple teams during build-out and delivery. • Develop data assets and transformation logic using PySpark. About You • You're passionate about enabling teams to design solutions that drive business value. • Working closely with business stakeholders, lead engineers, product managers, and analysts, you can design solutions through the full lifecycle, from conception to market. • You're equally comfortable discussing technical concepts with business professionals and business concepts with technical professionals. • You can lead small development teams within a matrixed environment. • You can collaborate with consulting and sales representatives to identify opportunities, develop, and pitch solutions based on a business case, and work closely with clients to generate the outcomes. • You're adaptable to frequent change and comfortable making decisions with limited information in dynamic situations. Qualifications • 5-10+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect at a management consulting firm, or in a client-facing role, with proven responsibility for delivering high-impact customer solutions. • 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data engineer, designing and developing data pipelines. • Strong experience in Palantir Foundry and PySpark. • Deep experience in streaming data architecture and integrating data from various sources. • Experience creating architectural diagrams, including Sequence Diagrams, Deployment Diagrams, and State Diagrams • Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles, including Authentication, Login, SSO, and Active Directory integration. • Knowledge of data retention and security best practices. • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience. • Availability to work between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm Pacific Time (PT). • Ability to travel up to one week per month. Preferred Qualifications • Experience working in the utilities industry. • Experience as an application developer using Java and TypeScript.