Alation Technical Consultant
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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.
- Bring hands-on experience implementing and administering Alation Data Catalog.
- Possess strong knowledge of metadata management, data governance, data cataloging, business glossaries, and data lineage concepts.
- Bring experience onboarding metadata from databases, cloud platforms, BI tools, and legacy sources such as Excel files, CSVs, and data dictionaries.
- Possess familiarity with SQL, APIs, metadata integration patterns, and authentication mechanisms including SSO, SAML, and OAuth.
- Bring strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
- Possess experience with Alation platform configuration, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Bring experience supporting metadata migration, bulk imports, mapping, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Be eligible to complete BPSS checks.
Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.
HelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.
We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.