Senior Alation Data Governance & Migration Architect

OtB Tech LLC; New Jersey; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OtB Tech LLC seeks a Senior Data Governance Expert with deep Alation expertise to consolidate multiple Alation environments into a unified enterprise platform, enabling a seamless Enterprise Data Marketplace and governance across cloud platforms.

You will lead migrations, establish metadata standards, glossaries, and lineage controls, and partner with executives to align data assets with business goals while ensuring smooth cutovers and adoption.

Qualifications

• 6-7+ years in Data Governance, Metadata Management, or Data Engineering.
• Alation Mastery and Certification: 3+ years on migration or consolidation projects; certification preferred.
• Deep knowledge of Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries, Data Stewardship, Taxonomy design, and Enterprise Data Marketplace; familiarity with Collibra.
• Automation & APIs: Proficiency in Alation REST APIs, Python, and SQL.
• Identity & Access Management: Knowledge of user roles, permissions, and SAML/SSO integration.

Responsibilities

• Business Engagement, Presentation & Executive Sign-offs: Present migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and transition plans to executives.
• Business Sign-offs: Validate migrated metadata, glossaries, and marketplace assets with leads to secure formal business sign-offs for migration phases.
• Escalation & Change Management: Primary escalation point during migration; resolve conflicts and adoption hurdles.
• Operating Frameworks: Define and execute enterprise metadata standards, governance operating models, and stewardship frameworks.
• Multi-Instance Enterprise Migration & Consolidation: Lead discovery, risk assessment, and migration strategy to consolidate multiple Alation instances.
• Metadata reconciliation & conflict resolution: Define processes for duplicates, taxonomy alignment, and cross-domain assets.
• Automation workflows: Develop workflows using Alation REST APIs, Python, and SQL for extraction, synchronization, and validation.
• Quality Assurance & Auditability: Pre/post-migration checks, SAML/SSO audits, and SQL verification.
• Backend indexing checks: Elasticsearch/Solr checks for global searchability.

Skills

Alation mastery

Alation certification

Data governance

Metadata management

Data catalogs

Glossaries

Taxonomy design

Business glossary alignment

Python

SQL

REST APIs

SAML/SSO integration

Automation

Tools

Alation REST APIs

Job description

OtB Tech LLC seeks a Senior Data Governance Expert with deep Alation expertise to consolidate multiple Alation environments into a unified enterprise platform, enabling a seamless Enterprise Data Marketplace and governance across cloud platforms.

You will lead migrations, establish metadata standards, glossaries, and lineage controls, and partner with executives to align data assets with business goals while ensuring smooth cutovers and adoption.