Sr. Atlan Data Catalog Engineer

Location: USA / Canada (Remote)
Duration: 6+ Months (Contract, Extension Possible)
Position: 1
Experience Level: 10+ Years
Start Date: First Week of January
Employment Type: Contract
Industry: Insurance

We are seeking an experienced Senior Atlan Data Catalog Engineer to lead an enterprise-wide metadata and governance migration from Informatica Data Governance Catalog (DGC) to Atlan. This role will play a key part in modernizing the organization's data governance ecosystem by ensuring accurate metadata migration, robust lineage, and scalable governance workflows.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience with Atlan, metadata migration projects, and enterprise data governance in regulated industries such as insurance.

• Lead the end-to-end migration of metadata, lineage, business glossaries, and governance assets from Informatica Dto Atlan.

• Analyze existing Dconfigurations and design a target-state Atlan metadata model aligned with enterprise governance and architecture standards.

• Configure, administer, and optimize the Atlan data catalog to support enterprise-wide metadata and governance requirements.

• Recreate and enhance business glossaries, domains, and taxonomies within Atlan.

• Identify, define, and maintain Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and ensure accurate mapping during migration.

• Establish and maintain end-to-end data lineage across source systems, data pipelines, warehouses, and BI tools within Atlan.

• Implement and manage metadata ingestion pipelines, including native connectors, automated syncs, and custom ingestion logic.

• Develop custom scripts or automation (Python or similar) to support metadata transformation, bulk updates, and migration gap resolution.

• Define and enforce data classification frameworks, ensuring consistent tagging of sensitive and regulated data.

• Configure RBAC, access controls, and governance workflows within Atlan.

• Validate migrated metadata for completeness, accuracy, and consistency, ensuring alignment with governance standards.

• Document migration procedures, implementation patterns, and configuration standards to support auditability and repeatability.

• Support UAT cycles, resolving catalog-related issues and ensuring successful migration sign-off.

• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Architecture, BI teams, and Data Stewards to ensure accurate metadata representation.

• Coordinate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure environment readiness, connector configuration, and integration prerequisites.

• Provide guidance and best practices on Atlan adoption and metadata governance.

• 10+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, or data engineering roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Atlan Data Catalog.

• Proven experience leading metadata migrations from Informatica Dor similar governance platforms.

• Deep understanding of business glossaries, data lineage, CDEs, metadata models, and governance workflows.

• Strong SQL knowledge and scripting experience (Python preferred).

• Experience working in regulated environments, preferably within insurance or financial services.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

• Experience with Informatica D Axon, Collibra, or similar data governance tools.

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

• Experience integrating Atlan with data warehouses, ETL tools, and BI platforms.

• Knowledge of data privacy, classification, and regulatory compliance frameworks.