Alation Data Governance Consultant

Who we are

Billigence is a boutique data consultancy with global reach, transforming the way organisations work with data. We use proven, cutting-edge technologies to design, tailor and implement advanced Business Intelligence solutions across Cloud Data Warehousing, Visualisation, Data Science and Engineering, and Data Governance.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Alation Data Governance Consultant to support a client's Data Governance implementation and rollout.

This is a remote contract role, open to candidates based in Europe.

Duration: 3–6 months initially

What you’ll do

• Develop standardised templates and deployment patterns to support Alation Catalogue implementation across individual business units and functions
• Design and configure intuitive Alation dashboards, landing pages and navigation tailored to business user personas and governance objectives
• Define and configure approval workflows for governed assets, including ownership, certification, review and escalation processes
• Configure asset page views and layouts to surface relevant metadata, ownership, governance information, usage and business context
• Establish asset monitoring and reporting to track adoption, usage, engagement and governance compliance
• Develop standardised business glossary upload templates, metadata structures, naming conventions and processes for business term onboarding and maintenance
• Define and implement the Alation role structure, including user roles, responsibilities, permissions, ownership, stewardship and governance accountabilities
• Design and configure the Community and Domain hierarchy to align Alation with the organisation's business, functional and data ownership structures
• Define and configure asset statuses, certification states and articulation scoring to measure governance maturity and asset completeness
• Develop standardised traceability and lineage diagram presets to support consistent impact analysis and data discovery
• Develop and execute a phased adoption, training and rollout plan covering template introduction, user training, communications and onboarding of business functions
• Support metadata enrichment, tagging, classification, validation and remediation to improve the quality and usability of catalogue content
• Establish and run processes for migrating Alation configuration and content between DEV, TEST and PROD environments, including validation and release controls
• Translate business and governance requirements into actionable Alation artefacts, configuration specifications, workflows and implementation deliverables
• Configure and onboard governance assets, including business glossary terms, rules, policies, reports and datasets
• Support the design and implementation of the Data Governance operating model, including roles, processes, decision rights and stewardship
• Develop a pragmatic short-, medium- and long-term Alation implementation roadmap covering platform capabilities, governance maturity, business onboarding, adoption and continuous improvement

What you’ll need

• Recent, hands-on experience implementing and configuring Alation
• Strong Data Governance experience, including operating models, roles, stewardship and decision rights
• Experience designing business glossaries, metadata structures and naming conventions
• Experience configuring approval, certification and review workflows for governed assets
• Experience configuring data lineage to support impact analysis and data discovery
• Experience moving catalogue configuration and content between DEV, TEST and PROD environments
• Experience planning and delivering user training, communications and adoption
• The ability to translate business and governance requirements into clear configuration specifications
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• The ability to work independently and hit the ground running

Inclusion and equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity, inclusive employer. We consider all applicants fairly and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Interested?

If you are an Alation Data Governance Consultant with strong implementation experience and can start ASAP, we would love to hear from you. Apply now, or contact Billigence UK Recruitment at UK.Recruitment@Billigence.com for more information.