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Contract Information
Job title: Data Management Specialist
Location: London
Contract End Date: 31 December 2026
Working Arrangement: Hybrid, 2 days onsite per week
Engagement: Inside IR35
Key Responsibilities
- Set up, configure and administer the Alation Data Catalog platform.
- Provide ongoing technical support and platform maintenance.
- Lead metadata onboarding and tool hydration activities.
- Migrate existing metadata assets into Alation.
- Configure and maintain the business glossary, data catalogue and stewardship capabilities.
- Support the implementation of data lineage and governance workflows.
- Integrate Alation with enterprise databases, data platforms, BI tools and wider governance technologies.
- Work with Data Governance, Data Management and business stakeholders to improve metadata quality.
- Improve the discoverability, usability and adoption of data assets across the organisation.
- Troubleshoot platform, configuration and integration issues.
- Support the development of Alation standards, processes and operating procedures
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- Strong hands-on experience with Alation Data Catalog.
- Proven experience setting up, configuring and administering Alation.
- Experience delivering metadata onboarding and tool hydration activities.
- Experience migrating existing metadata assets into Alation.
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data cataloguing and data governance.
- Experience configuring business glossaries, stewardship workflows and data lineage.
- Experience integrating Alation with enterprise data sources, databases and BI platforms.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across technical, governance and business teams.
- Ability to investigate and resolve Alation platform and integration issues.
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Skills
Alation Data Catalog
Metadata Management
Data Governance
Data Cataloguing
Business Glossary
Data Lineage
Platform Administration
Stakeholder Management
Tool Hydration
Metadata Migration
BI Tool Integration
Technical Support
Location