Alation Administrator

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Alation Administrator with hands-on experience in Alation platform administration, user/role management, Creator license governance, cloud integration, Data Quality and Data Governance.

The ideal candidate should have practical experience with the latest Alation 0.2 capabilities and should be comfortable supporting enterprise data governance and Data Mesh environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Alation users, groups, roles and permissions.
• Manage and govern Alation Creator licenses, including allocation, utilization review and reassignment.
• Support Alation Cloud integration within enterprise cloud environments.
• Manage data-source onboarding, metadata extraction, profiling and lineage.
• Configure and support CDE Manager (Critical Data Elements).
• Work with Built-in Data Quality (DQ) and external/third-party DQ integrations.
• Support Curation Automation for metadata enrichment and governance.
• Work with AI Studio and governed AI-assisted catalog use cases.
• Support Data Products and Data Product Marketplace.
• Integrate external DQ tools/metrics with Alation.
• Support Data Mesh / federated data governance models.
• Troubleshoot Alation connectors, metadata extraction, APIs and production issues.
• Support data governance activities including business glossary, ownership, stewardship, classifications and policies.

Mandatory Skills

Alation | Alation Cloud | Alation Administration | User & Role Management | RBAC | Creator License Management | Cloud Integration | CDE Manager | Data Quality | DQ Integration | Curation Automation | AI Studio | Data Products | Data Product Marketplace | Data Mesh

Good to Have

• Python
• SQL
• REST APIs
• OAuth 2.0
• SSO
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage
• Business Glossary
• Data Governance
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Production Support

Important

Alation experience is mandatory. Candidates without hands-on Alation experience will not be considered.

Hands-on experience with Alation 0.2 capabilities, Data Quality integration and Data Mesh will be highly relevant for this position.