Federal Health Palantir Lead at Guidehouse in McLean, VA

Job description

Job Family : Data Engineering & Architecture Consulting Travel Required : Up to 25% Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do : Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Associate Director to serve as the Palantir Foundry technical lead for a major federal health payment integrity modernization initiative. This role will provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, configuration, integration, deployment, and ongoing enhancement of a Palantir Foundry-based operating environment that connects healthcare claims, payments, referrals, authorizations, providers, pricing logic, rules, analytics, workflows, dashboards, and audit trails. The ideal candidate combines deep Palantir Foundry expertise with enterprise data architecture and integration experience, strong technical delivery leadership, and the ability to translate federal health program and payment integrity requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable platform capabilities. Experience with healthcare claims, reimbursement, or federal health consulting is strongly preferred. Roles and Responsibilities Serve as the primary Palantir Foundry technical lead, accountable for the platform’s architecture, configuration, implementation, and technical quality. Translate federal health, payment integrity, data, security, and operational requirements into a scalable Foundry solution and technical roadmap. Lead development of Foundry data pipelines, Ontology, operational applications, workflows, dashboards, reports, and integrations. Design and govern healthcare data models connecting claims, claim lines, remittances, providers, referrals, authorizations, pricing data, rules, findings, analyst actions, and recovery outcomes. Oversee data ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, lineage, metadata, and quality controls for batch and near-real-time processing. Guide implementation of configurable rules, advanced analytics, anomaly detection, explainability, and human-in-the-loop review workflows. Ensure secure, auditable, scalable, and resilient platform operations, including access controls, environment management, release governance, monitoring, performance, and production readiness. Lead technical design reviews, Agile planning, testing, demonstrations, user acceptance testing, deployment, and ongoing platform enhancements. Provide technical direction and quality oversight to Palantir developers, data engineers, application developers, integration engineers, and data scientists. Partner with federal clients, program leaders, business subject matter experts, security stakeholders, and technology teams to resolve technical decisions, risks, and dependencies. Mentor technical staff and help grow Guidehouse’s Palantir capability through reusable assets, delivery standards, training, solutioning, and business development. What You Will Need : U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field. TEN (10) or more years of experience in data engineering, enterprise data architecture, platform implementation, systems integration, application development, or a related discipline, with increasing technical and delivery leadership responsibility. SEVEN (7) or more years with strong hands-on proficiency designing, developing, and deploying production solutions in Palantir Foundry. Experience leading a team of Palantir Foundry developers, engineers, or architects through the architecture, development, and production deployment of an enterprise-scale implementation. Experience with core Palantir Foundry capabilities, including data ingestion and source connectivity, Pipeline Builder and code-based transformations, Ontology design, Workshop and operational application development, analytics and visualization, access controls and permissions, data lineage and versioning, testing and monitoring, and release management. Exp