Data Governance Enablement Analyst (Atlan)
Fully Remote
Duration: 1 year
Key Responsibilities
Atlan Platform Enablement & Configuration
• Configure & administer Atlan assets: datasets, tables, dashboards, metrics, & glossary terms
• Design & maintain business glossaries, taxonomies, domains, & critical data elements (CDEs)
• Configure ownership model: (E.g., Executive Owner, Business Owner, Technical Owner, Steward)
• Implement certifications, tags, classifications, & trust indicators to support analytics confidence
• Enable stewardship workflows, issue tracking, announcements, and policy attestations within Atlan
Metadata, Lineage & Discovery
• Coordinate automated metadata ingestion from modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BI tools)
• Validate and curate end-to-end lineage across ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers
• Partner with data engineering to resolve lineage gaps and improve metadata completeness
• Support column-level context for sensitive, regulated, or business-critical data
Stewardship & Adoption Enablement
• Serve as a primary point of contact for business data stewards and analytics users
• Lead enablement sessions, office hours, and workshops to drive adoption of Atlan
• Translate business concepts into governed data assets and standardized definitions
• Support stewardship operating rhythms (reviews, certifications, issue triage)
Data Quality & Governance Context
• Attach data quality context, known issues, and remediation status to governed assets
• Partner with data quality teams to surface rules, monitors, and scorecards in Atlan
• Enable issue logging, tracking, and stewardship escalation workflows
Integration & Automation
• Use Atlan APIs & lightweight scripting to automate metadata enrichment and workflow actions
• Integrate Atlan with downstream systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, BI tools, SSO/RBAC)
• Support governance-by-design patterns embedded into analytics and engineering workflows
Required Qualifications
• 3 to 5 years of experience in data governance, data enablement, analytics enablement, or data operations
• Hands-on experience configuring or administering Atlan (or similar platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica)
• Strong understanding of modern data stacks (cloud data warehouses/lakehouses, BI tools)
• Practical experience with business glossaries, metadata, lineage, and stewardship models
• Ability to work directly with both business and technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, SSRS, Tableau, or Looker
• Familiarity with data quality, privacy, or regulatory concepts (PII, PHI, NPI, HIPAA, GLBA, etc.)
• Exposure to APIs, SQL, Python, or metadata automation
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance frameworks (CDMC, DMBOK, internal standards)