Alation Platform Engineer

Senior Alation Enterprise Migration & Governance Expert

Location: Raritan,NJ (Hybrid mode, 3 days WFO)

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Alation Enterprise Migration & Governance Expert with deep expertise in metadata architecture, cloud data ecosystems, and business domain governance. In this role, you will lead the strategic and technical consolidation of multiple Alation environments into a unified enterprise platform, enabling a seamless Enterprise Data Marketplace and driving enterprise-wide adoption.

As a Business & Governance Expert , you will bridge the gap between technical data engineering and executive leadership—ensuring that data assets, glossaries, lineages, and policies across cloud platforms are accurately migrated, reconciled, and aligned with business goals without disruption.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Engagement, Presentation & Executive Sign-offs

• •Stakeholder Presentations: Work directly with business teams and executive stakeholders to present clear, step-by-step migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and transition plans before and during cutover.
• •Business Sign-offs: Partner with Lead Business Stewards, Data Owners, and Domain Leads to validate migrated metadata, glossaries, and marketplace assets to secure formal business sign-offs for migration phases.
• •Escalation & Change Management: Serve as the primary escalation point during migration; utilize strong conflict-resolution and communication skills to navigate domain disputes, schema alignment challenges, and user adoption hurdles.
• •Operating Frameworks: Define and execute enterprise metadata standards, governance operating models, and stewardship frameworks tailored for senior executive stakeholders.

2. Multi-Instance Enterprise Migration & Consolidation

• •Lead the technical discovery, risk assessment, and migration strategy to consolidate multiple Alation instances into a unified enterprise architecture.
• •Define and execute metadata reconciliation and conflict resolution frameworks for duplicate catalog objects, business terms, stewardship assignments, and cross-domain taxonomies.
• •Develop robust automation workflows using Alation REST APIs, Python, and SQL for metadata extraction, synchronization, pre/post-migration validation, and platform administration.

3. Quality Assurance & Auditability

• •Establish rigorous pre- and post-migration sanity checks, including SAML/SSO attribute mapping audit reports , asset ownership validation, and Alation Analytics (Postgres metastore) SQL verification.
• •Perform backend indexing checks ( Elasticsearch/Solr re-indexing ) to ensure global searchability across all migrated domain assets.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical & Governance Expertise

• •Total Experience: 6–7+ years in Data Governance, Metadata Management, or Data Engineering.
• •Alation Mastery & Certification: Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience implementing, customizing, and delivering migration or multi-instance consolidation projects in Alation; Alation Certification is strongly preferred .
• •Domain & Governance Depth: Deep knowledge of Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries, Data Stewardship frameworks, Taxonomy design, and Enterprise Data Marketplace models; familiarity with complementary data governance and quality platforms ( Collibra)
• •Automation & APIs: Strong proficiency in Alation REST APIs, Python, and SQL for metadata automation, synchronization, and platform administration.

Identity & Access Management: Working knowledge of user role management, permission models, and SAML/SSO integration