Job Description
Job Title: Senior Technical Consultant
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Implementation Partner: Blue.cloud
End Client: To be disclosed
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Implementation Partner: Blue.cloud
End Client: To be disclosed
What you'll be doing?
- Lead the customer through on-premise product installation procedures
- Set up change management and have a good understanding of RBAC
- Create custom database, file system, and BI tool connectors/feeds using scripts and the Alation REST API
- Populate the loading of metadata from databases, file systems, and BI tools
- Provide input on new Alation features to the customer
- Document lessons learned, tips/tricks, and contribute knowledge base articles
- Troubleshoot any user issues within Alation
You should have:
- Minimum 5+ years of consulting experience in a lead role
- At least 1-2 years working with Alation
- Ability to work in the central time zone of the US
- Ability to travel to Dallas and go on-site every 1-2 months
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skill to resolve technical challenges
- Professional customer-facing communications and client-management skills
- Experience administering Linux operating systems
- Experience with Azure cloud deployments
- Experience with multiple databases and excellent SQL skills
- Experience with single sign-on, authentication configuration with LDAP and Active Directory
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker deployments
- Python or Java experience using REST APIs
- Experience with Hadoop distributions (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR) and with AWS or Azure