Alation SME

Alation SME

JD

1.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather data governance, cataloging, and metadata management requirements.
• Translate business needs into functional specifications and configure Alation to meet organizational objectives.

2.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for Alation Data Catalog, including data discovery, stewardship, lineage, and policy management.
• Provide guidance on best practices for catalog adoption and integration with enterprise data platforms.

3.

• Good understanding & experience defining & implementing data products.

4.

• Lead functional implementation activities such as setting up domains, workflows, and metadata enrichment.
• Ensure proper integration with data sources (Databricks, Snowflake, etc.) and security frameworks.

5.

• Develop and deliver training sessions, documentation, and onboarding materials for business users and data stewards.
• Promote data literacy and drive adoption of Alation across the organization.

Good to have

• Restful API integration - needed to integrate systems to and with Alation
• SQL - to curate views for power bi integration, to maintain mapping tables, quarterly stats etc
• Python - to build workflows or jobs in databricks for various usecases.