Alation Architect

About DataAffect: We are a boutique data/service management firm specializing in the delivery of Data Governance, Enterprise Data Strategy, Solutions Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Integrations, Data Security & Privacy Management, IT Service Management, Business analysis (and) Agile Project Management services to diverse clients across multiple industries.

Role: Alation Architect
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months

• Experience as a DG technical solution architect - designed and implemented Data Governance solutions for mid to large scale organization using Alation
• Work with Data Governance Practice Lead, Data Quality Lead, Metadata Lead and other team members to execute the Alation Data Governance Implementation and Integration Use Cases.
• Coordinate and guide the offshore developers for building the deliverables.
• Review/ design the future state meta-model/operating model that can be used for subsequent implementations.
• Work closely with business/application SMEs, determine strategy for onboarding business terms/ glossary, identify critical data elements.
• Strategize SOP for onboarding business glossaries followed by deduplication, rationalization and standardization of business terms.
• Design and finalize approach for business glossary capture, metadata ingestion, data lineage, integration with external tools such as Manta, Ataccama.
• Design and define templates for custom metadata ingestion manually as well as using APIs.
• Define & create policies for data governance in Alation.
• Design & construct OOTB/ custom workflows using Alation.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Alation features and best practices
• Nice if candidate has Alation certification such as Alation certified consultant
• Closely work with Offshore team, co-ordinate, assist and guide them to ensure seamless delivery.

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