Platform Engineer (Palantir Foundry)

<p><strong>Platform Engineer (Palantir Foundry)<br /> London (Hybrid)<br /> 6 Month Contract<br /> &pound;600/day (Inside IR35)</strong></p> <p><em>Platform Engineer</em> needed with strong <em>Palantir Foundry</em> and <em>Databricks </em>on AWS. Start ASAP in May/June 2026.</p> <p>6 Month Rolling Contract based in <em>London</em> (Hybrid), with occasional travel to the <em>Leeds </em>office.</p> <p>Hybrid Working &#8211; 3-4 days/week remote (WFH) + 1-2 days/week working from the office in <em>London</em>.</p> <p>A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects:</p> <ul> <li>Configure + support secure integration between Palantir Foundry and Databricks on AWS.</li> <li>Scope includes data held in S3, registered through Databricks Hive Metastore, governed or exposed through Unity Catalog, and consumed by Foundry using the Databricks connector or approved ingestion patterns.</li> <li>Hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, including connectors, Data Connection, datasets, syncs, projects and permissions.</li> <li>Experience configuring or supporting the Palantir Foundry Databricks connectors.</li> <li>Strong Databricks on AWS experience, including SQL Warehouse, clusters, tables, views and access controls.</li> <li>Good understanding of Hive Metastore and Unity Catalog, including catalogs, schemas, grants, storage credentials and external locations.</li> <li>Strong AWS IAM, S3, KMS, bucket policy and cross-account access experience.</li> <li>Set up and validate the Foundry Databricks connector for approved SQL Warehouses, tables, views and Unity Catalog-governed objects.</li> <li>Support end-to-end access from AWS S3 sources through Hive Metastore and Unity Catalog into Foundry datasets or products.</li> <li>Configure Foundry Data Connection, datasets, syncs, projects, permissions and lineage as required.</li> <li>Work with AWS teams to define IAM roles, S3 bucket policies, KMS permissions and approved cross account access patterns.</li> <li>Troubleshoot Foundry connector failures, Databricks authentication issues, Unity Catalog grants, schema mismatches and query failures.</li> <li><em>Technical Environment</em>: Palantir Foundry, Foundry Virtual Tables, Ontology, Workshop, Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, AWS, Databricks, Terraform, IaC, Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, CSV, JSON, Python, PySpark, SQL, CI/CD, GitLab, GitHub Actions.</li> </ul>