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Req ID: 313916 We are currently seeking a Alation Admin or MSTR Cloud Admin to join our team in NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh (IN-UP), India (IN). Alation Admin Also known as an Alation Data Catalog Administrator Responsible for managing and maintaining the Alation Data Catalog, a platform that helps organizations discover, understand, and govern their data assets. 1. Platform Administration Installing, configuring, and maintaining the Alation Data Catalog platform to ensure its optimal performance and reliability. 2. User Management Managing user access, permissions, and roles within Alation, ensuring proper authentication and authorization for data access. 3. Data Governance Implementing and enforcing data governance policies, including data classification, data lineage, and data stewardship, to maintain data quality and compliance. 4. Data Catalog Management Curating and organizing metadata and data assets within the catalog, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information is available to users. 5. Integration: Collaborating with other IT teams to integrate Alation with data sources, databases, data lakes, and other data management systems. 6. Metadata Management Overseeing the extraction and ingestion of metadata from various data sources into Alation, including data dictionaries, business glossaries, and technical metadata. 7. Security Implementing and maintaining security measures, such as encryption, access controls, and auditing, to protect sensitive data and catalog information. 8. Training and Support Providing training to users on how to effectively use the Alation Data Catalog and offering support for catalog-related inquiries and issues. 9. Data Discovery Assisting users in discovering and accessing data assets within the catalog, promoting self-service data discovery. 10. Collaboration Collaborating with data owners, data stewards, and data users to understand their data needs and ensure the catalog meets those requirements. 11. Performance Monitoring Monitoring the performance of the Alation Data Catalog platform, identifying and resolving issues to ensure optimal functionality. 12. Upgrades and Maintenance Planning and executing platform upgrades and applying patches to stay up to date with Alation releases. 13. Documentation Maintaining documentation for catalog configurations, processes, and best practices. 14. Reporting and Analytics Generating reports and insights from Alation to track data usage, data lineage, and user activity. 15. Data Quality Monitoring and improving data quality within the catalog and assisting in data quality initiatives. 16. Stay Current Staying informed about Alation updates, new features, and industry best practices in data catalog administration. An Alation Admin plays a critical role in enabling organizations to effectively manage their data assets, foster data collaboration, and ensure data governance and compliance across the enterprise. --------------------------- MicroStrategy Cloud Admin Minimum 4+ years of MSTR Administration with following core attributes "“ Hands-on maintenance and administration experience in MicroStrategy 10.x Business Intelligence product suite, AWS Cloud platform Experience on enterprise portal integration, mobile integration, write back to source data based on analysis by business users, alerts via mail, mobile based on pre-defined events Ability to define and review complex Metric Ability to architect MSTR Cubes for solving complex business problems Good conceptual knowledge and working experience on meta data creation framework models universe etc., creating report specifications, integration test planning & testing, unit test planning & testing, UAT & implementation support Strong knowledge of quality processes SDLC, Review, Test, Configuration Management, Release Management, Defect Prevention Knowledge of Database is essential and ability to review the SQL passes and make decisions based on query timings Good experience on MicroStrategy upgrade, configurations on Linux Have hands on experience on creating MSTR deployment packages, Command manager scripts setup and maintain proper object and data security working experience of Configure, maintain, and administer multiple environments Open to work in different shifts as per project need Excellent Communication Skills (Written, Verbal, team work and issue resolution) Activities: Provide support for MicroStrategy"™s Business Intelligence product suite, AWS Cloud platform, and its underlying technologies Use your strong communication skills Resolve application and infrastructure situations as they arise Perform day to day management of the MicroStrategy Cloud infrastructure (on AWS) including alert monitoring/remediation, change management, incident troubleshooting and resolution. Participate in scheduled and emergency infrastructure maintenance activities Collaborate and communicate effectively with peers, internal application and software development teams Maintain high quality documentation for all related tasks Work in a strong team environment Independently manage Production MSTR environment (and associated lower environments as Dev, UAT) Manage upgrades and vulnerabilities
