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Job Title: Alation Admin
Location: Dallas TX-Hybrid
Experience: 10+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract/C2C
Job Summary:
McKesson is seeking an experienced Alation Administrator to manage and support the enterprise data catalog platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for administering, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing Alation to enable effective data discovery, governance, and collaboration across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and maintain the Alation Data Catalog platform, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
- Manage user access, roles, and permissions based on business and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with data stewards, data engineers, and business users to onboard new data sources and metadata into Alation.
- Configure and maintain connectors (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle, SQL Server, AWS S3, Azure Synapse).
- Perform upgrades, patches, and version migrations for the Alation platform.
- Monitor system performance, storage usage, and metadata ingestion jobs, ensuring smooth operations.
- Troubleshoot issues related to metadata crawling, lineage generation, and catalog search.
- Work with the data governance and security teams to enforce data policies and compliance standards.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, including installation guides, best practices, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Provide training and support to business and technical users for Alation functionality.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in data management, data governance, or metadata management roles.
- 2 3+ years of hands-on experience as an Alation Administrator (installation, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting).
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data cataloging, and data lineage concepts.
- Experience integrating Alation with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and various relational databases.
- Familiarity with data governance tools and frameworks (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Purview) is a plus.
- Knowledge of SQL and experience working with data pipelines.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team within a large enterprise environment like McKesson.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with enterprise-scale deployments of Alation.
- Exposure to data privacy, security, and compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) in healthcare or life sciences domains.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation scripting (Python, Shell, or PowerShell).
- Alation certification or relevant data governance certifications are a plus.
Educational Qualification:
- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Regards,
Mohd Fasi | Synapse Tech Service Inc |
800 Cross Pointe Rd, Suite L, Columbus, OH 43230
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