PVM, Inc. is a veteran-owned small business that focuses on delivering digital services to government agencies. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will lead the architecture and implementation of dashboards and data workflows, coordinating with stakeholders to enhance operational analytics capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines within Army Vantage (Palantir Foundry), including automated build, test, deployment, and environment promotion workflows
- Build and iterate front-end analytical dashboards using Foundry’s Workshop/Slate application layer
- Define and enforce automated quality gates, validation suites, and release confidence checks
- Configure observability tooling including monitoring, logging, and alerting aligned to Foundry development patterns
- Implement governed metric definitions and reusable business logic anchored to the Foundry Ontology
- Participate in agile sprint cycles, including planning, standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Demonstrate working capabilities to government stakeholders
- Align integration patterns, data access controls, and release procedures with platform requirements
- Deliver comprehensive technical documentation, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks
- Provide defect resolution, troubleshooting, and incremental improvements
- Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
Requirements:
- Must reside in Arlington, Virginia
- Serve as the technical lead responsible for the architecture, pipeline implementation, and overall delivery quality of Army Vantage dashboards and data workflows
- Coordinate directly with government stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver operational analytics capabilities that support force management and readiness decisions
- Independently own complex implementation tasks from design through production
- Mentor junior engineers
- Ensure sprint deliverables meet operational standards
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines within Army Vantage (Palantir Foundry), including automated build, test, deployment, and environment promotion workflows
- Build and iterate front-end analytical dashboards using Foundry's Workshop/Slate application layer
- Define and enforce automated quality gates, validation suites, and release confidence checks
- Configure observability tooling including monitoring, logging, and alerting aligned to Foundry development patterns
- Implement governed metric definitions and reusable business logic anchored to the Foundry Ontology
- Participate in agile sprint cycles, including planning, standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Demonstrate working capabilities to government stakeholders
- Align integration patterns, data access controls, and release procedures with platform requirements
- Deliver comprehensive technical documentation, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks
- Provide defect resolution, troubleshooting, and incremental improvements
- Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
- Deep expertise with Palantir Foundry, including pipelines, Workshop/Slate, Ontology configuration, and AIP
- 8+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience
- Experience delivering CI/CD pipelines and analytics platforms in classified or DoD environments
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, or Java within Foundry development workflows
- Familiarity with Army Vantage, GFIM, force management, or readiness data domains
- Ability to own full feature lifecycle: architecture → build → test → deployment