diff --git a/providers/apache/impala/pyproject.toml b/providers/apache/impala/pyproject.toml
index 602b1b494b7ba..27ccc391aca33 100644
--- a/providers/apache/impala/pyproject.toml
+++ b/providers/apache/impala/pyproject.toml
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ dependencies = [
 "kerberos" = [
     "kerberos>=1.3.0",
 ]
+"sqlalchemy" = [
+    "sqlalchemy>=1.4.49",
+]
 
 [dependency-groups]
 dev = [
@@ -77,8 +80,9 @@ dev = [
     "apache-airflow-devel-common",
     "apache-airflow-providers-common-sql",
     # Additional devel dependencies (do not remove this line and add extra development dependencies)
-    "kerberos>=1.3.0",
-    "apache-airflow-providers-common-sql[pandas,polars]"
+    "apache-airflow-providers-apache-impala[kerberos]",
+    "apache-airflow-providers-common-sql[pandas,polars]",
+    "apache-airflow-providers-apache-impala[sqlalchemy]",
 ]
 
 # To build docs:
diff --git a/providers/apache/impala/src/airflow/providers/apache/impala/hooks/impala.py b/providers/apache/impala/src/airflow/providers/apache/impala/hooks/impala.py
index fc63a9b97cf5c..39b902ccbc8e0 100644
--- a/providers/apache/impala/src/airflow/providers/apache/impala/hooks/impala.py
+++ b/providers/apache/impala/src/airflow/providers/apache/impala/hooks/impala.py
@@ -19,12 +19,13 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from impala.dbapi import connect
-from sqlalchemy.engine import URL
 
+from airflow.exceptions import AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException
 from airflow.providers.common.sql.hooks.sql import DbApiHook
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from impala.interface import Connection
+    from sqlalchemy.engine import URL
 
 
 class ImpalaHook(DbApiHook):
@@ -50,6 +51,14 @@ def get_conn(self) -> Connection:
     @property
     def sqlalchemy_url(self) -> URL:
         """Return a `sqlalchemy.engine.URL` object constructed from the connection."""
+        try:
+            from sqlalchemy.engine import URL
+        except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError) as err:
+            raise AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException(
+                "The 'sqlalchemy' library is required to use this feature. "
+                "Please install it with: pip install 'apache-airflow-providers-apache-impala[sqlalchemy]'"
+            ) from err
+
         conn = self.get_connection(self.get_conn_id())
         extra = conn.extra_dejson or {}