Governanace (Atlan) Architect- Remote

Job Title: Governanace (Atlan) Architect

Duration: 6 months contract with possible extension

Location: Remote work

Independent Visa Only

Job Description: Design and implement a scalable governance and access framework for the client's Data Marketplace on Atlan, supporting approximately 500 employees and 2,000 external customers. Resolve UAT visibility issues and establish a secure, maintainable model before onboarding resumes. This is a hands-on architecture and engineering role.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Diagnose and resolve persona, policy and group-related access defects without disrupting existing users.

- Design least-privilege RBAC/ABAC across the four access tiers, including internal/external segregation (>2000 usres) and overlapping memberships.

- Configure Atlan personas, purposes and policies; distinguish metadata visibility from source-system data access and validate licensing constraints.

- Integrate SSO groups and SCIM provisioning/deprovisioning; automate repeatable configuration and validation using supported APIs or SDKs.

- Align classification, tags, domains and data products with access controls, working with data architects, engineers and security teams.

- Implement governance approval and DSAA requirements, including access expiry, exceptions, periodic reviews and auditability.

- Lead positive and negative UAT, resolve defects and obtain approval for phased onboarding with rollback controls.

- Deliver architecture documentation, operational runbooks and knowledge transfer to the internal governance team.

- Translates governance tiers and approval workflows into a documented, testable access matrix

Required Experience and Skills

- Overall 10+ years of experience having 5+ years in data governance, data platform or IAM architecture; experience designing RBAC/ABAC for 1,000+ users.

- 1–2 enterprise Atlan implementations, or deep equivalent experience with Collibra, Alation, or Microsoft Purview with demonstrable hands-on capability.

- Expertise in Atlan personas, purposes, policies, classification, domains and data products.

- SSO/SCIM integration with Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, including group mapping and user lifecycle automation.

- Strong troubleshooting, access testing, least-privilege design, stakeholder communication and documentation skills.

Best Regards

Rohit Rawat

Delivery Manager

Inabia Solutions & Consulting

14711 NE 29th Place, Suite 110

Bellevue, WA 98007

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