Lead Data Engineer – Palantir & PySpark

  • Contract

Company Description

Arthur Grand Technologies (www.arthurgrand.com) is in the business of providing staffing and technology consulting services. We have doubled our revenue year over year for the past 5 years. This speaks to the long-lasting relationship and customer satisfaction that we have built in this short span of time. Our company is managed by a team of professionals who worked for big 5 consulting firms for 20+ years. 

We are a minority owned staff augmentation and technology consulting company
To keep our valued employees, we need to keep them engaged in challenging, interesting work, offer market-relevant benefits and provide continued opportunities for professional growth.

Job Description

Job Title:  Lead Data Engineer – Palantir & PySpark

Location: Remote

 

 

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer with hands-on experience in Palantir (Foundry preferred), PySpark, and exposure to reinsurance or insurance data environments. The ideal candidate will play a key role in building scalable data pipelines, optimizing ETL workflows, and enabling advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. This role requires a strong technical foundation in data engineering combined with an understanding of the reinsurance business domain.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL workflows using PySpark, SQL, and Palantir Foundry.
  • Collaborate with data architects, business analysts, and actuarial teams to understand reinsurance data models and transform complex datasets into usable formats.
  • Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and validation processes to support analytical and reporting use cases.
  • Work within the Palantir Foundry platform to design robust workflows, manage datasets, and ensure efficient data lineage and governance.
  • Ensure data security, compliance, and governance in line with industry and client standards.
  • Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement across data systems and integrations.

 

Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • 6–10 years of overall experience in data engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in PySpark (dataframes, RDDs, performance optimization).
  • Proven experience working with Palantir Foundry or similar data integration platforms.
  • Good understanding of reinsurance including exposure, claims, and policy data structures.
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and working with large datasets in distributed environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and related data services (e.g., S3, Snowflake, Databricks).
  • Knowledge of data modeling, metadata management, and data governance frameworks.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and Agile delivery methodologies.

 

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with data warehousing and reporting modernization projects in the reinsurance domain.
  • Exposure to Palantir ontology design and data operationalization.
  • Working knowledge of APIs, REST services, and event-driven architecture.
  • Understanding of actuarial data flows, submission processes, and underwriting analytics is a plus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks,

Afrah Faiza

Arthur Grand Technologies Inc

Arthur Grand Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (including disability/vets)

 

 

Additional Information

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