Alation Platform Support

Compunnel, Inc.; Raritan (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking an experienced Alation Platform Support professional in New Jersey to manage user access, security and platform configurations. You will collaborate with the Alation vendor, onboard projects, and perform upgrades while ensuring best practices for data governance and access control.

A strong background in SSO SAML, LDAP and GUI-driven administration is required. This role involves coordinating changes, reviewing API access, and ensuring secure operation as customers

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in platform support or data governance.
• Mandatory skills: Alation, SSO SAML Authentication, GUI, LDAP.

Responsibilities

• Manage users, roles and groups with appropriate privileges.
• Collaborate with vendor to influence Alation roadmap and feature requests.
• Onboard new projects into the Alation platform.
• Configure SSO SAML authentication and LDAP integration.
• Perform platform upgrades, patches and bug fixes.
• Maintain security best practices and firewall rules.
• Support data stewards with guidance on issues.
• Coordinate with vendors for bugs and enhancements.

Skills

Alation

SSO SAML Authentication

GUI

LDAP

Job description

Job Title: Alation Platform Support

Key Responsibilities

• Manage users, roles, groups and assign required privileges
• Work with vendor to understand roadmap, influence Alation roadmap to include use cases, feature requests
• Schedule MDE Data Sampling QLI
• Onboard new projects into Alation platform
• Create and manage Alation domains, sub-domain documents hub
• Setup new connector or data source
• Configure SSO SAML Authentication for Alation platform
• Sync LDAP with security groups, roles
• Upload data dictionaries for bulk curation through GUI
• Coordinate with Alation vendor for any product bugs, capabilities, feature requests and bug fixes
• Prepare and maintain a tracker for configuration changes and performance tweaks
• Review Alation API access and grant appropriate access, case by case
• Configure Lexicon Alli Bots for automatic curation of business technical terms
• Support projects migrating from on-prem to cloud
• Perform platform upgrades, apply patches and bug fixes
• Create support and change management groups
• Assist data stewards for issues guidance
• Define security model and enforce security best practices
• Onboard Alation platform to Asset Management
• Work with TQ to qualify the Alation OnPrem Cloud platforms
• Maintain security firewall rules

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience required
• Mandatory skills: Alation, SSO SAML Authentication, GUI, LDAP