Homes.com - Manager, Data Engineering

Full-time - Manager

Arlington, VA

About the position

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. 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.

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/views.
• Overseeing the design and construction of large-scale data processing systems.
• Act as a player coach to a growing team of data engineers.
• Understand various data domains and be able to translate them through data transformations to suit various business needs.
• Responsible 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 model.
• Data Governance (Metadata management, privacy (at database and reporting level).
• Hands-on data optimization and query performance.
• Liaise with key company teams (DBA, DevOps, SecOps…) for data accessibility and analysis.
• Mentor 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 parameters.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 structures that is immediately useful to answering specific ad-hoc questions.

Nice-to-haves

• 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, Databricks, Data Pipeline and other Cloud providers such as AWS.
• Experience working with and managing large consumer datasets to derive insights.
• Background in the residential or commercial real estate industry.

Benefits

• 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.