Alation Technical Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

The Alation Technical Consultant is responsible for the implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of the Alation Data Intelligence Platform. The role focuses on onboarding data sources, enabling metadata management and governance capabilities, and ensuring the platform operates effectively to support data discovery, cataloging, and stewardship initiatives.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

Platform Setup & Deployment

• Install, deploy, and upgrade Alation platform components across cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• Configure integrations with enterprise infrastructure, authentication services, and security frameworks.

Configuration & Administration

• Configure Alation platform settings, user roles, permissions, workflows, stewardship, and governance features.
• Perform platform administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and regular maintenance activities.

Data Source Onboarding & Metadata Hydration

• Connect and onboard databases, data warehouses, BI tools, data lakes, and other enterprise data sources into Alation.
• Support migration of metadata from legacy repositories, including Excel-based inventories, data dictionaries, SharePoint-hosted metadata assets, and existing catalog/governance tools into Alation.
• Enable metadata extraction, profiling, lineage capture, catalog enrichment, and metadata quality processes to ensure comprehensive and accurate metadata availability.
• Support bulk metadata import, mapping, transformation, and reconciliation activities where metadata is sourced outside of automated connectors.

Implementation Guidance & Operational Support

• Apply Alation, metadata management, and data governance best practices to support successful platform adoption.
• Provide technical guidance, issue resolution, and operational support to business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop documentation, operational procedures, metadata onboarding standards, and knowledge transfer materials to support long-term platform sustainability.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, architects, and governance teams to improve metadata coverage, quality, and usability.

Your Skills:

• Hands-on experience implementing and administering Alation Data Catalog.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data governance, data cataloging, business glossaries, and data lineage concepts.
• Experience onboarding metadata from databases, cloud platforms, BI tools, and legacy sources such as Excel files, CSVs, and data dictionaries.
• Familiarity with SQL, APIs, metadata integration patterns, and authentication mechanisms (SSO/SAML/OAuth).
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organization. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organizational ambitions.
• To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognized by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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