diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml b/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ae12a75daa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[build-system]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "pip"]
+
+[tool.black]
+extend-exclude = '''
+# A regex preceded with ^/ will apply only to files and directories
+# in the root of the project.
+^/tmp
+'''
+include = '\.pyi?$'
+target-version = ['py36', 'py37', 'py38']
+
+[tool.isort]
+indent = '    '
+profile = 'black'
+sections = 'FUTURE,STDLIB,THIRDPARTY,FIRSTPARTY,LOCALFOLDER'
+skip_glob = 'src/datahub/metadata'
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/setup.cfg b/metadata-ingestion/setup.cfg
index 792766b43f..200c6a05a1 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/setup.cfg
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/setup.cfg
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [flake8]
-# We ignore the line length issues here, since black will take care of them.
-max-line-length = 150
 max-complexity = 15
 ignore =
+    # Ignore: line length issues, since black's formatter will take care of them.
+    E501,
     # Ignore: 1 blank line required before class docstring.
     D203,
     # See https://stackoverflow.com/a/57074416.
@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ disallow_untyped_decorators = yes
 # eventually we'd like to enable these
 disallow_untyped_defs = no
 
-[isort]
-profile = black
-indent='    '
-sections = FUTURE,STDLIB,THIRDPARTY,FIRSTPARTY,LOCALFOLDER
-skip_glob=src/datahub/metadata
-
 [tool:pytest]
 addopts = --cov src --cov-report term --cov-config setup.cfg --strict-markers
 markers =
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_rest_sink.py b/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_rest_sink.py
index ef378a1076..c4f78e9d63 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_rest_sink.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_rest_sink.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ basicAuditStamp = models.AuditStampClass(
             ),
             "datasets",
             json.loads(
-                '{"snapshot": {"urn": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,downstream,PROD)", "aspects": [{"com.linkedin.dataset.UpstreamLineage": {"upstreams": [{"auditStamp": {"time": 1618987484580, "actor": "urn:li:corpuser:datahub"}, "dataset": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,upstream1,PROD)", "type": "TRANSFORMED"}, {"auditStamp": {"time": 1618987484580, "actor": "urn:li:corpuser:datahub"}, "dataset": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,upstream2,PROD)", "type": "TRANSFORMED"}]}}]}}'  # noqa: E501
+                '{"snapshot": {"urn": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,downstream,PROD)", "aspects": [{"com.linkedin.dataset.UpstreamLineage": {"upstreams": [{"auditStamp": {"time": 1618987484580, "actor": "urn:li:corpuser:datahub"}, "dataset": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,upstream1,PROD)", "type": "TRANSFORMED"}, {"auditStamp": {"time": 1618987484580, "actor": "urn:li:corpuser:datahub"}, "dataset": "urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:bigquery,upstream2,PROD)", "type": "TRANSFORMED"}]}}]}}'
             ),
         ),
         (