DoD - Palantir Ontology Engineer - Manager

**Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer - Manager – Navy Audit Artifact Management** **Location:** Washington D.C. **Level**: Manager **Clearance:** **Must be able to attain and maintain a minimum DoW Secret clearance** \*Candidates must be able to maintain this clearance during their employment with Montcure. Montcure, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) founded with a vision to revolutionize consulting and advisory services through innovative, data-driven solutions. The Montcure team recognizes the unique challenges faced by organizations and governments in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. **Job Summary** The Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer Manager will support development of a Navy audit artifact management and traceability platform within Palantir Foundry. This role will design and implement ontology-driven data models that link audit artifacts, financial controls, requirements, and audit evidence across enterprise systems within Palantir Foundry to support Navy Financial Management Digital Data Transformation (FMDDT) initiatives, audit readiness, artifact traceability, data governance requirements and ontology modeling to ensure traceability of audit artifacts, enhance financial controls, and improve audit readiness. The position collaborates with Navy FM, audit, and technical stakeholders to translate audit requirements into scalable semantic data structures that support audit readiness, traceability, and analytics. **Key Responsibilities** **Platform Development & Ontology Design:** - Design and configure ontology objects within Palantir Foundry to represent audit artifacts, requirements, controls, and supporting documentation. - Define relationships between ontology objects to support artifact traceability across audit lifecycle stages. - Develop and maintain data pipelines that ingest and transform financial, logistics, and property data sources into the ontology. - Configure object views and operational data structures that enable artifact tracking and lifecycle visibility. - Collaborate with data engineers and functional stakeholders to ensure ontology structures support audit workflows and reporting requirements. **Audit & Financial Support:** - Collaborate with Navy financial management stakeholders to translate audit requirements into ontology structures and data models. - Support artifact traceability across audit lifecycle stages to strengthen audit response and reporting. - Ensure platform outputs support audit response and financial control validation. **Data Governance & Security:** - Implement role-based access controls (RBAC) and segregation of duties (SoD). - Ensure compliance with DoD security, data governance, and IL4/IL5 requirements. - Support governance of audit artifact metadata, lineage tracking, and audit data integrity. **Platform Enablement & Stakeholder Engagement:** - Develop operational applications, analytic views, and reporting structures within Foundry to support audit lifecycle visibility. - Prepare technical documentation and provide platform guidance to functional and technical users. - Collaborate with engineers and analysts supporting the platform modernization effort. **Required Qualifications** **Education:** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. **Experience:** - 7+ years of enterprise data engineering, analytics development, or data architecture. - 2+ years Palantir Foundry experience or experience working with comparable enterprise data platforms. - Experience designing or implementing semantic data models, ontologies, or knowledge graph architectures. - Experience with Navy FM, FMDDT, or financial system audit readiness initiatives. - Experience supporting audit response, financial management analytics, or compliance-driven systems preferred. **Skills:** - Strong understanding of ontology modeling and semantic data architecture. - Experience w…