Palantir Business Analyst
Job Description:
A Palantir BA is a hybrid consulting + data role, responsible for turning business problems into scalable data solutions on Foundry and driving insights across reinsurance operations.
Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and Palantir Foundry data platform, helping translate business problems into data-driven solutions and workflows.
- Focus: Data analytics, transformation, and business insight generation
- Platform: Palantir Foundry (enterprise data integration & analytics)
- Domain: Reinsurance (risk, underwriting, finance, reporting)
Roles & Responsibilities
- Business & Data Translation
- Translate business requirements into data pipelines, models and workflows
- Work closely with stakeholders (Underwriting, Finance, Risk) to identify use cases
- Break down complex problems into structured datasets and analytical workflows
- Stakeholder & Delivery Management
- Act as a liaison between business and technical teams
- Drive end-to-end use cases on Palantir Foundry
- Collaborate in cross-functional, agile teams
- Communicate insights clearly to senior stakeholders
- Data Engineering + Analysis (Foundry Context)
- Design and manage data transformation pipelines (ETL, SQL, Python)
- Integrate multiple enterprise data sources (claims, underwriting, actuarial, finance systems)
- Analyse large, complex datasets to identify trends and insights
- Support data modelling and ontology-driven design (Foundry concepts)
- Data Quality, Testing & Governance
- Maintain governance, lineage, and traceability (key Foundry capability)
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and reliability across pipelines
- Solutioning & Insights
- Provide actionable insights for business decision-making
- Recommend:
- Process improvements
- System enhancements
- Automation opportunities
- Enable data-driven decision-making at scale across business units
Required Skillsets
- Core Technical
- Palantir Foundry
- Business & Functional
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business needs into technical/data requirements
- Understanding of:
- Insurance / reinsurance / BFSI processes
- Financial or risk data
- Stakeholder communication
- Structured thinking & problem decomposition
Palantir Foundry skills to manage large-scale enterprise data across:
- Underwriting
- Pricing
- Claims
- Risk & capital modelling
- Finance and reporting
Key expectations:
- Handle complex interconnected risk datasets
- Enable enterprise-wide data visibility and governance
- Support AI-enabled decision making