Alation Product Owner

Alation Product Owner

Contract Position

Location -Minneapolis, MN

Job Summary:

We are seeking a strategic and technically adept Product Owner to lead initiatives involving the Alation Data Catalog. This role will be responsible for defining and executing the product vision, roadmap, and delivery of data catalog capabilities that enhance data discovery, governance, and literacy across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and maintain the product roadmap for Alation-based data catalog initiatives.

Align catalog capabilities with enterprise data strategy and business goals.

Collaborate with data stewards, analysts, engineers, and business users to gather requirements and feedback.

Act as the primary liaison between business and technical teams.

Create and manage a prioritized product backlog.

Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria for catalog features and enhancements.

Drive adoption of metadata standards, data lineage, and stewardship practices using Alation.

Ensure catalog content is accurate, up-to-date, and aligned with governance policies.

Promote data literacy and catalog usage through training, documentation, and internal advocacy.

Define KPIs to measure catalog adoption and data quality improvements.

Work closely with data engineers and architects to integrate Alation with data sources (e.g., Snowflake, AWS, data pipelining using AWS Glue etc.).

Support automation of metadata ingestion and policy enforcement.

Required Qualifications:

6 years of experience in data management, data governance, or product ownership.

Hands-on experience with Alation or similar tools (e.g., Collibra, OvalEdge etc).

Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and data quality principles.

Education: At least a bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field is required for the project