Alation Technical Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Hands-on experience implementing and administering the Alation Data Catalog.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data governance, data cataloging, business glossaries, and data lineage concepts.
• Experience onboarding metadata from databases, cloud platforms, BI tools, and legacy sources such as Excel files, CSVs, and data dictionaries.
• Familiarity with SQL, APIs, metadata integration patterns, and authentication mechanisms such as SSO, SAML, and OAuth.
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

• We implement, configure, and support the Alation Data Intelligence Platform.
• We install, deploy, and upgrade Alation platform components across cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• We configure integrations with enterprise infrastructure, authentication services, and security frameworks.
• We configure platform settings, user roles, permissions, workflows, stewardship, and governance features.
• We perform platform administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and regular maintenance activities.
• We connect and onboard databases, data warehouses, BI tools, data lakes, and other enterprise data sources into Alation.
• We support migration of metadata from legacy repositories, including Excel-based inventories, data dictionaries, SharePoint-hosted metadata assets, and existing catalog or governance tools.
• We enable metadata extraction, profiling, lineage capture, catalog enrichment, and metadata quality processes.
• We support bulk metadata import, mapping, transformation, and reconciliation activities.
• We apply Alation, metadata management, and data governance best practices to support successful platform adoption.
• We provide technical guidance, issue resolution, and operational support to business and technical stakeholders.
• We develop documentation, operational procedures, metadata onboarding standards, and knowledge transfer materials.
• We collaborate with data owners, stewards, architects, and governance teams to improve metadata coverage, quality, and usability.

• Cloud
• Excel
• Support
• OAuth
• SAML
• SQL
• Security
• Share Point
• Dev Ops

We are offering a 3-month Alation Technical Consultant role on an umbrella-only basis, with a rate of up to £332 per day. The position is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week in the office either at 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ
or North St, Horsham RH12 1RD
.