Alation Technical Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience implementing and administering the Alation Data Catalog.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data governance, data cataloging, business glossaries, and data lineage concepts.
• Experience onboarding metadata from databases, cloud platforms, BI tools, and legacy sources such as Excel files, CSVs, and data dictionaries.
• Familiarity with SQL, APIs, metadata integration patterns, and authentication mechanisms such as SSO, SAML, and OAuth.
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities:

• We implement, configure, and support the Alation Data Intelligence Platform.
• We install, deploy, and upgrade Alation platform components across cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• We configure integrations with enterprise infrastructure, authentication services, and security frameworks.
• We configure platform settings, user roles, permissions, workflows, stewardship, and governance features.
• We perform platform administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and regular maintenance activities.
• We connect and onboard databases, data warehouses, BI tools, data lakes, and other enterprise data sources into Alation.
• We support migration of metadata from legacy repositories, including Excel-based inventories, data dictionaries, SharePoint-hosted metadata assets, and existing catalog or governance tools.
• We enable metadata extraction, profiling, lineage capture, catalog enrichment, and metadata quality processes.
• We support bulk metadata import, mapping, transformation, and reconciliation activities.
• We apply Alation, metadata management, and data governance best practices to support successful platform adoption.
• We provide technical guidance, issue resolution, and operational support to business and technical stakeholders.
• We develop documentation, operational procedures, metadata onboarding standards, and knowledge transfer materials.
• We collaborate with data owners, stewards, architects, and governance teams to improve metadata coverage, quality, and usability.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Excel
• Support
• OAuth
• SAML
• SQL
• Security
• SharePoint
• DevOps

More:

We are offering a 3-month Alation Technical Consultant role on an umbrella-only basis, with a rate of up to £332 per day. The position is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week in the office either at 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ or North St, Horsham RH12 1RD. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 35 week of 2026