Technical Lead - Data Engineering and Alation Implementation Consultant

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Area(s) of responsibility

Job Description – Alation Implementation Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and implement governance assets in Alation, including business glossary, CDEs, policies, standards, quality rules, workflows, dashboards, alerts, and notifications.
• Implement governance workflows for Create / Update / Inactivate use cases, including SLAs, escalations, and decision logging.
• Configure relationships between business metadata, technical metadata, lineage, and quality rules to ensure traceability.
• Support metadata ingestion, enrichment, and alignment between business and technical assets.
• Support integration deployments, environment setup, and production readiness activities related to Alation.
• Assist with testing, defect resolution, and UAT support for governance configurations.
• Deliver enablement sessions and walkthroughs for stewards, owners, and business users on Alation usage.
• Support documentation, configuration handover, and stabilization during transition to BAU operations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience implementing data governance or data catalog platforms, with strong hands‑on configuration experience.
• Demonstrated hands‑on expertise with Alation configuration, including glossary objects, CDEs, standards, workflows, dashboards, and notifications.

 

Experience Level

Senior Level