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Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [CliftonLarsonAllen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cliftonlarsonallen) First seen Aug 25, 2026 · open on Workday as of Nov 9, 2026 Pay not posted Dallas, TX +25 Full-time Lead technical design and engineering standards for Palantir Foundry applications across project teams at a top-10 national professional services firm. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fd09af06dfff497d2&placement=top) - [View posting at CliftonLarsonAllen](https://cliftonlarsonallen.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CLA/job/Dallas-TX/Lead-Palantir-Application-Engineer_R17646) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 10%** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** relevant experience - **8+ years** relevant experience *Preferred* ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in Dallas, TX · Tempe, AZ · +23 more. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Dallas, TX · Tempe, AZ · Austin, TX · Houston, TX · Madison, WI · Atlanta, GA · Naples, FL · Orlando, FL · Overland Park, KS · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Tampa, FL · Cleveland, OH · Boise, ID · Canton, OH · San Antonio, TX · Century City, CA · Nashville, TN · Eau Claire, WI · Fort Worth, TX · Milwaukee, WI · Saint Petersburg, FL · Charlotte, NC · Green Bay, WI · Hudson, WI · Des Moines, IA · St. Petersburg, FL - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Up to 10% ## More like this [Accordion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accordion) ### [Staff Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d3541d229218a784) Boston, MA · Charlotte, NC · +4 more Hybrid 1mo ago $200,000–$290,000 [Samsara](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/samsara) ### [Solutions Integration Engineer IV](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/81d21a9b115bb353) Austin, TX · Chicago, IL · +3 more Remote 3mo ago $105,910–$160,200 [Applied Computing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-computing) ### [Time Series Researcher - Forward deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cc1f72c9c38fbc10) Houston, TX 3mo ago Pay not posted ## The job description from CliftonLarsonAllen CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where **our purpose is to ** * **create opportunities*** every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. * **How You’ll Create Opportunities in This Role** * - **Technical Direction and Solution Leadership: **Lead technical design for Palantir applications, workflows, integrations, and platform capabilities. Define implementation approaches, guide architecture decisions, and ensure solutions are built with appropriate security, reliability, maintainability, and performance considerations. - **Engineering Standards and Patterns: **Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, coding practices, testing expectations, documentation standards, and support models for Foundry-based applications across project teams. - **Foundry Platform Enablement: **Guide the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns. Help teams apply these capabilities consistently and appropriately. - **Design Reviews and Quality Oversight: **Review complex designs and code, identify technical risks, challenge weak implementation approaches, and ensure applications are built to meet business goals and long-term support expectations. - **Mentorship and Team Development: **Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers. Help raise the team’s capability by sharing knowledge, reviewing work, and supporting consistent engineering practices. - **Cross-Project Technical Planning: **Identify dependencies, shared components, technical debt, and cross-team impacts across projects. Partner with product owners, architects, and managers to align technical delivery with project and portfolio priorities. - **Production Support and Technical Escalation: **Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues. Lead root-cause analysis, recommend durable fixes, and help improve monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness. - **Client Service and Communication: **Communicate technical options, risks, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to business users, technology teams, vendors, management, and senior leaders. * **Technical Competencies** * - **Palantir Foundry Leadership: **Guide application teams in the use of Foundry capabilities such as Workshop, Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Functions, Actions, Code Repositories, security/access management, lineage, and deployment patterns. - **Solution Architecture: **Lead solution design for complex applications, integrations, workflows, and data models. Identify technical risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend practical approaches that can be supported over time. - **Engineering Standards: **Establish and reinforce standards for code quality, testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational support across Foundry application teams. - **Application Engineering: **Develop and review maintainable solutions using modern engineering practices and technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, APIs, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD concepts. - **Data and Integration: **Guide data modeling, transformation, integration, data quality, and connection patterns for enterprise systems, files, databases, APIs, and Foundry-based solutions. - **Technical Mentorship: **Coach engineers through design decisions, implementation challenges, code reviews, troubleshooting, and adoption of consistent engineering practices. - **Agentic Development: **Experience using different LLMs. Knowledge of different models, experience working with MCP, and familiarity with different agentic coding frameworks. * **What You Will Need** * - **Experience: ** 5 years relevant experience required. 8 years of relevant experience preferred. - Experience developing enterprise applications, workflows, integrations, or platform-based solutions preferred - Experience providing technical direction for complex application engineering efforts preferred - Experience reviewing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices preferred - Experience with Palantir Foundry preferred. - Agentic development experience - **Education: **Bachelor’s degree required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. - **Certifications/Licenses: **None required. - **Travel: **This position requires <10% travel. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities Click here to learn about your hiring rights. ### Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more. To view a complete list of benefits, click here. [View posting at CliftonLarsonAllen](https://cliftonlarsonallen.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CLA/job/Dallas-TX/Lead-Palantir-Application-Engineer_R17646) ## About CliftonLarsonAllen CLA serves businesses, nonprofits, governments and owners through integrated audit, tax, outsourcing, digital, wealth advisory and consulting services. 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