Palantir Technical Architect
1 day ago
Sheffield
Palantir Technical Architect £Up to £110,000 GBP Hybrid WORKING Location: Bristol; Gloucester; Cardiff; Plymouth; Belfast; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Manchester; Liverpool; Leeds; Sheffield; Norwich; Belfast, Bristol, South West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent Client : Join a world-class organisation where your work supports the UK's most critical Defence, Healthcare, and Public Sector programmes. Our client has been recognised as a Times Top 100 Company for 7 years in a row, delivering impact through technology, transformation, and consulting, underpinned by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity. As a Palantir Technical Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping data-driven solutions that deliver real impact for millions of people. At the heart of Kainos' most ambitious digital transformation programmes, you will lead the design and delivery of high-quality technical components, working closely with Solution Architects, Customer Architects, and multidisciplinary teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms. You'll be part of a people-first, innovation-led culture where collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning are core to how we work. Every voice matters here - your ideas will help influence technical decisions, set engineering standards, and guide the successful integration of complex distributed systems. You'll also provide leadership to engineers, offering coaching, direction, and support as you solve meaningful data challenges together. Our client invests in cutting-edge tools, learning opportunities, and professional development, empowering teams to grow and thrive. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are supported, alongside a strong focus on wellbeing. Take the opportunity to do meaningful work, shape the data platforms that underpin the nation's most important services, and build long-lasting professional relationships in a culture that genuinely values your growth. This role is perfect for a Palantir Technical Architect seeking real impact, career progression, and the chance to work on the most bespoke defence projects in the UK. You'll have the opportunity to: • Successfully implement functional and non-functional technical designs. • Collaborate closely with customer architects to define solution standards, effort estimates, and technical implications. • Set technical standards and ensure they are upheld by engineering teams. • Manage and estimate delivery timelines for complex technical components. • Contribute to or lead technical solution design during pre-sales cycles. • Mentor, coach, and guide team members while shaping the wider data and analytics capability. • Make a meaningful contribution to the data analysis community and technical direction of key programmes. Key Requirements: • Experience owning the technical architecture for a component, subsystem, or product (e.g., data ingestion or streaming). • Strong client interaction skills with the ability to present technical decisions to non-technical audiences. • Experience applying design patterns, development standards, and operational readiness practices. • Proven experience designing, building, and productionising distributed, data-intensive applications. • Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with comfort across multiple programming paradigms. • Experience deploying contemporary data stores (object, document, key-value, search, RDBMS, graph). • Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks data-processing platforms. • Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, CDC, or data virtualisation. Desirable: • Understanding of Data Warehouse techniques. • Contributions to engineering or data communities. • Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) in data services. • Experience driving continuous improvement and modern data best practices. Benefits: • Competitive Bonus • Private Medical Cover • Company Share Plan • Generous Holiday Package (Ability to Buy and Sell) • Training and Development • Comprehensive Pension Package Reference: AON/AMC/PalantirTA #aao TPBN1_UKTJ