Alation Technical Consultant

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31, 2026

Work setup: Hybrid (60% office / 40% remote)

Clearance required: BPSS eligibility

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Alation Technical Consultant to implement, configure, and support the Alation Data Intelligence Platform.

The role will focus on data source onboarding, metadata management and hydration, governance capabilities, and platform administration to support data discovery, cataloging, and stewardship initiatives.

What you will do:

• Install, deploy, and upgrade Alation platform components across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Configure integrations with enterprise infrastructure, authentication services, and security frameworks.
• Configure Alation platform settings, user roles, permissions, workflows, stewardship, and governance features.
• Perform platform administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and regular maintenance.
• Connect and onboard databases, data warehouses, BI tools, data lakes, and other enterprise data sources into Alation.
• Support metadata migration from legacy repositories, including Excel-based inventories, data dictionaries, SharePoint-hosted metadata assets, and existing catalog and governance tools.
• Enable metadata extraction, profiling, lineage capture, catalog enrichment, and metadata quality processes.
• Support bulk metadata import, mapping, transformation, and reconciliation activities for metadata sourced outside automated connectors.
• Apply Alation, metadata management, and data governance best practices to support successful platform adoption.
• Provide technical guidance, issue resolution, and operational support to business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop documentation, operational procedures, metadata onboarding standards, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, architects, and governance teams to improve metadata coverage, quality, and usability.