Alation Platform

Job Title:

Alation Platform Support Key Responsibilities

• Manage users, roles, groups and assign required privileges
• Work with vendor to understand roadmap, influence Alation roadmap to include use cases, feature requests
• Schedule MDE Data Sampling QLI
• Onboard new projects into Alation platform
• Create and manage Alation domains, sub-domain documents hub
• Setup new connector or data source
• Configure SSO SAML Authentication for Alation platform
• Sync LDAP with security groups, roles
• Upload data dictionaries for bulk curation through GUI
• Coordinate with Alation vendor for any product bugs, capabilities, feature requests and bug fixes
• Prepare and maintain a tracker for configuration changes and performance tweaks
• Review Alation API access and grant appropriate access, case by case
• Configure Lexicon Alli Bots for automatic curation of business technical terms
• Support projects migrating from on-prem to cloud
• Perform platform upgrades, apply patches and bug fixes
• Create support and change management groups
• Assist data stewards for issues guidance
• Define security model and enforce security best practices
• Onboard Alation platform to Asset Management
• Work with TQ to qualify the Alation OnPrem Cloud platforms
• Maintain security firewall rules

• 12+ years of experience required
• Mandatory skills:
  Alation, SSO SAML Authentication, GUI, LDAP