CoStar Group - Senior Technical Business Analyst

CoStar Group - Senior Technical Business Analyst

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Job Description

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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.  

CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar’s independent research organization – the industry’s largest – with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence.

The Analytics team is responsible for the development of CoStar's customer-facing Real Estate Analytics products.  We think big, creating innovative data-intensive applications that take the vast amount of data collected by our CoStar Research teams to create a fast, reliable and intuitive analytics platform for our customers.  We are a collaborative group with a mix of big data, API/platform and front-end skills, and we are growing rapidly to help invent the future of Real Estate Analytics. 

Our San Diego team is seeking an accomplished Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our team in supporting the supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as www.Costar.com. You will have a direct impact on highly visible web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve our software products.

This position is located in San Diego (UTC Area) and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the CoStar business, the goals of our products, and collaborating with Product Development and Design in the creation of those products  
• Writing acceptance criteria for user stories that contain key information for the development team to do their work    
• Maintain direct channels of communication with software developers, management, and Product Design to accomplish team goals  
• Responding to analytic specific issues that are raised by internal and external groups  
• Identifying and document business trends utilizing real data that will support new features and applications  
• Holding regular stakeholder/grooming meetings to keep all interested parties updated in project progress  
• Documenting user requirements and business rules to be used in application development  
• Understanding End-To-End test cases at the application and multi-application levels  
• Working directly with QA Staff to ensure comprehensive testing for all areas and provide input as to how to test new features  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college  
• A track record of commitment to prior employers 
• Minimum of 5+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience
• 2+ years of Product Owner experience is a plus
• This role is highly self-directed.  Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must.
• Software coding experience background is a plus.
• Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role.
• Agile/Scrum experience is required

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Basic SQL database knowledge 
• Experience with Agile Development process  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

What’s in it for You