Manager, Analytical Engineering (Homes.com)

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Homes.com

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.

Learn more about Homes.com (https://www.homes.com/about/) .

Homes.com is growing quickly and we’re looking for a Manager, Analytical Engineering to help accelerate our growth. This role will be responsible for helping build out sitewide tracking architecture on Homes.com, and then feeding that data into user-friendly KPI dashboards which track site performance and, product usage, and provides day to day insights on consumer behavior. This individual will help build out the analytics team for Homes.com and work across all departments to provide analysis and insights for future growth. You will oversee various aspects of our data management, ranging from designing and maintaining automated data infrastructure and spearheading BI solutions to facilitating data access and analysis for key company teams.

This position is located in Washington, DC and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Act as a player coach to a growing team of analytical engineers

• Responsible for data solutioning and architecture – multi-dimensional modelling, championing stakeholder needs, Single record of truth

• Oversee automated data infrastructure: Collaborate with software engineering and product teams to streamline data tracking in our products.

• Hands-on experience working with Snowflake; including SQL skills, table creation, managing and deriving aggregates through tables/views

• Ability to integrate data from different sources via cross domain data stitch into existing data model

• Data Governance (Metadata management, privacy (at database and reporting level)

• Hands-on data optimization and query performance

• Liaise with key company teams for data accessibility and analysis: Facilitate collaboration between product, marketing, and sales teams to comprehend their data requirements, equipping them with the necessary tools and resources for efficient data access and analysis. Also responsible for organizing training on BI tools and creating data-driven solutions to business issues.

• Mentor and manage engineers and analysts in the normal execution of their responsibilities.

• Interact regularly with technology and business executives

• Conduct ongoing and in depth needs analysis (approximately 20% of total time) with client to obtain detailed business requirements

• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters. Ensure proper software development practices are followed and provide guidance and/or assistance when necessary

• Provide status reports and feedback to Business Management

• Work with internal and external clients to document project success criteria

• Drive continuous improvement within team by focusing on engineering excellence

• Work with recruiting to identify, hire and onboard top industry talent

• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or adjacent field required from an accredited, not for profit, university or college

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 5+ years of experience leading engineering and/or data analytics teams

• Proven ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams while thriving in a fast-paced growth tech environment.

• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal relationships and managing key stakeholders, including C-Suite.

• 8+ years of experience with SQL, Python, business intelligence, and data warehousing

• Advanced SQL, Excel and Python skills

• Knowledge of business intelligence software (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, Kibana) and web analytics tools (i.e. Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, BigQuery)

• Ability to retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Analytics

• Experience with BigQuery and Microsoft SQL Server

• Experience with Cloud data lakes/storage/databases and tools such as AWS S3, Snowflake, Data Pipeline and other Cloud providers such as MS Azure

• Experience working with and managing large consumer datasets to derive insights

• Background in the residential or commercial real estate industry

What's In It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

• Commuter and parking benefits

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes

• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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