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.

Qualifications :

• 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.

Additional Information :

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract