EY - GDS Consulting - AI and DATA - Data Governance Specialist - Alation and Data Strategy - Manager

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Senior Data Governance Specialist – Alation & Data Strategy

Experience Required : 10+ years

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, configuration, and optimization of Alation for metadata management, data cataloguing, and lineage visualization.
• Implement and manage Alation Marketplace, enabling effective data discovery, sharing, and stewardship.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end data lineage across platforms and tools.
• Define and enforce data governance frameworks, policies, and standards aligned with organizational data strategy.
• Partner with business and technology teams to ensure metadata accuracy, stewardship accountability, and compliance with data privacy regulations.
• Collaborate with BI / Data Engineering teams to ensure metadata integration across ETL pipelines, data lakes, and reporting platforms.
• Drive data literacy and adoption of Alation across functional teams through training and best practices.
• Provide recommendations to enhance data quality, accessibility, and reusability within the organization.

Required Skills & Experience

Preferred Qualifications

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Skills Required

Metadata Management, Data Management, Power Bi, Tableau, Sql, snowflake , Databricks, Data Governance