Federal Health Palantir Lead

Job Family:

Travel Required:

Clearance Required:

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.

• Serve as the primary Palantir Foundry technical lead accountable for the platforms 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 Guidehouses 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
• Bachelors 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.
• Experience designing and governing batch incremental and near-real-time data pipelines including data modeling source-to-target mapping metadata lineage reconciliation and data quality controls.
• Experience designing applications and workflows that convert data and analytic results into operational decisions and track actions through resolution.
• Experience integrating Palantir Foundry with enterprise APIs data platforms source systems identity services and downstream applications.
• Experience implementing solutions involving sensitive or regulated data and applying security privacy access control auditability and compliance requirements.
• Experience n Python SQL and PySpark with working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript Java or other languages used in Palantir and enterprise data platform development.
• Experience leading technical delivery within an Agile environment including design reviews code reviews testing release planning and production deployment.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Health Informatics Data Science or a related field.
• Palantir certification or equivalent evidence of advanced Palantir Foundry expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical workstreams and lead mentor and provide quality oversight to technical teams in a client-facing delivery environment.
• Strong client-facing communication skills including the ability to facilitate technical decisions explain tradeoffs present architecture and translate operational requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience delivering Palantir solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs or another federal health agency.
• Previous federal health consulting experience involving direct engagement with government program data security and technology stakeholders.
• Experience with healthcare claims and payment data including X12 837 claims X12 835 remittance transactions claim-line data provider data referrals authorizations and claim-to-payment reconciliation.
• Familiarity with Medicare Medicaid VA Community Care TRICARE healthcare reimbursement or government-sponsored payment integrity programs.
• Experience with healthcare payment integrity claims validation improper-payment prevention utilization analytics recoveries or fraud waste and abuse detection.
• Experience operationalizing AI or machine learning capabilities in Palantir including anomaly detection risk scoring explainability model monitoring and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability and coding standards including HL7 FHIR X12 EDI NCPDP CPT HCPCS and ICD-10.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP-authorized environments federal authorization-to-operate processes continuous monitoring federal security compliance or Section 508 accessibility.
• Experience supporting solution architecture technical demonstrations proposals staffing estimates or business development for Palantir-enabled opportunities.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical Rx Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity EmployerProtected Veterans Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law ordinance or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities or to apply for a position and you require an accommodation please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1- or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @ or . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse please report the matter to Guidehouses Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received please contact . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicants dealings with unauthorized third parties.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.