MSS Developer - St. Louis
Agile Defense20 days ago
Scott Air Force Base, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$135k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain operator-facing dashboards, applications, decision surfaces, interactive tools, and automated workflows.
- Develop data pipelines, ontology, access controls, and data models on MSS and the underlying Palantir stack.
- Integrate external data sources and ensure data accuracy, consistency, and a well-modeled foundation for AI/AIP workflows.
- Create visualizations, alerting and monitoring systems, KPIs, and success metrics for mission decision-making.
- Optimize queries, caching, aggregations, dashboards, applications, and scalable platform performance.
- Provide day-to-day operator support and escalate complex platform issues to senior engineers.
- Contribute reusable ontology patterns, dashboard templates, integration recipes, documentation, and analytical methodologies.
- Support validation of the FDE&T model and stay current with MSS and Palantir technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or extensive Palantir experience in place of the degree.
- At least 4 years of software or data engineering experience, including at least 1.5 years of hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, Gotham, AIP, or MSS.
- Experience building dashboards, applications, or pipelines for operational end users.
- Working proficiency in ontology design and pipeline authoring using PySpark, Code Repositories, or Pipeline Builder.
- Active U.S. government security clearance; candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain higher-level clearances when required.
- Prior Palantir FDE/FDSE or comparable customer-embedded experience is preferred.
- MSS experience, AIP agent or large language model workflow exposure, DoD data-environment familiarity, and Combatant Command support experience are preferred.
- Solid Python and SQL skills, with familiarity in JavaScript and TypeScript, are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is onsite in a SCIF at Scott AFB in O’Fallon/St. Louis, Illinois.
- Employees are supported through a culture emphasizing collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, and mission focus.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Agile Defense
Agile Defense provides IT services and cybersecurity solutions for U.S. defense and federal civilian agencies, including digital transformation, systems integration, C4ISR support, data analytics, and cloud. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held company is owned by Enlightenment Capital and operates across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Its work centers on securing sensitive missions and modernizing government technology environments through managed services and mission-focused engineering.