Homes.com - Manager, Data Engineering

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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. 

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. 

Homes.com is growing quickly and we’re looking for a Manager, Data 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 data engineering 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 Data engineering and Analytics solutions to facilitating data access and analysis for key company teams.

This position is in Rosslyn, VA and offers a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite, 1 day remote.

Responsibilities

Hands-on in being able to design, build, test, deploy and maintain real-time and batch processed Data pipelines in the cloud-based data platform like Databricks.Ensuring that data, whether structured or unstructured, is easily accessible and usable to analysts and data scientists for insights and analysis.Hands-on experience working with Snowflake/Databricks; including SQL skills, table creation, managing and deriving aggregates through tables/viewsOverseeing the design and construction of large-scale data processing systems.Act as a player coach to a growing team of data engineersUnderstand various data domains and be able to translate them through data transformations to suit various business needsResponsible for data solutioning and architecture – multi-dimensional modelling, championing Single record of truth and avoiding redundancies.Oversee automated data infrastructure: Collaborate with software engineering and product teams to streamline data tracking in our products.Ability to integrate data from different sources via cross domain data stitch into existing data modelData Governance (Metadata management, privacy (at database and reporting level)Hands-on data optimization and query performanceLiaise with key company teams (DBA, DevOps, SecOps…) for data accessibility and analysisMentor and manage engineers and analysts in the normal execution of their responsibilities.Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parametersDrive continuous improvement within team by focusing on engineering excellenceWork with recruiting to identify, hire and onboard top industry talentContinually 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 collegeA track record of commitment to prior employers5+ years of experience leading engineering and/or data analytics teamsProven 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 warehousingAdvanced SQL, Excel and Python skillsKnowledge 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 structures that is immediately useful to answering specific ad-hoc questions.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Google AnalyticsExperience with BigQuery and Microsoft SQL ServerExperience with Cloud data lakes/storage/databases and tools such as AWS S3, Snowflake, Databricks, Data Pipeline and other Cloud providers such as AWSExperience working with and managing large consumer datasets to derive insightsBackground 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 DrugLife, legal, and supplementary insuranceVirtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and familyCommuter and parking benefits401(K) retirement plan with matching contributionsEmployee stock purchase planPaid time offTuition reimbursementOn-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classesAccess to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource GroupsComplimentary 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