Senior Data Engineer

Visual Lease; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

CoStar Group in Richmond, VA is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build our next-gen data warehousing pipelines and ecosystem within the finance tech organization. The role focuses on data migration/transformation across systems for our enterprise contracting platform.

The candidate will standardize data environments across billing systems, enabling better visibility into patterns and optimizations of billions in payments yearly. Hybrid in-office with Friday remote work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience with project leadership.
• Experience building batch and incremental ingestion pipelines from heterogeneous sources.
• Ability to normalize third-party data schemas into enterprise models.
• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills; proficiency in Python/Scala/Java/.NET.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms.
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for large datasets.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, DevOps and DBA teams for production systems.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical design decisions.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

5+ years data engineering

ETL/ELT pipelines

SQL

Python/Scala/Java/.NET

Distributed processing

Cloud data warehouse

CI/CD

AI-assisted development tools

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Airflow

Databricks Workflows

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

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, 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 have 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.

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a new team building our next generation of data warehousing pipelines and ecosystem in the finance tech organization. Initially this role will focus on building a data migration and transformation process for external systems for use in our enterprise contracting system. This will include receiving data from multiple data sources of varying format, frequency and type. You will create applications to process it in a repeatable, customizable and recurring state to simplify the conversion process of our financial data across systems and acquisitions both today and in the future. You will also help standardize our data environment across our billing systems to allow for greater visibility into patterns, errors and optimizations to our business, consisting of billions of dollars of payments a year.

This position is in Richmond, VA and has a work schedule of Monday through Thursday in office and Friday work from home.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data platforms
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for large, complex datasets
• Collaborate with engineering, product, DevOps and DBA teams to deliver production systems
• Contribute to technical design decisions and mentor other engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years of data engineering experience, including experience setting technical direction on projects and influencing design across a team
• Hands-on experience building batch and incremental ingestion pipelines from multiple heterogeneous external sources (REST/GraphQL APIs, flat-file and SFTP feeds, third-party data vendors, and database replication/CDC)
• Demonstrated experience normalizing inconsistent third-party schemas into standardized enterprise data models, including source-to-target mapping, deduplication, and entity resolution
• Advanced SQL and strong data modeling skills (dimensional/star schema, normalized, or Data Vault), plus proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or C#/.NET
• Production experience with a distributed processing engine and a cloud data warehouse or lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks/Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse/Fabric), including pipeline orchestration tooling (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Databricks Workflows, Azure Data Factory)
• Experience implementing data quality, validation, and reconciliation controls for externally sourced data, with version control and CI/CD in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with agentic engineering with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code or similar) to accelerate software delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Production-scale expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables / declarative pipelines, Databricks SQL, Workflows) or an equivalent lakehouse platform, including open table formats (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi)
• Experience with a modular transformation framework and tested, version-controlled models (dbt, SQLMesh, or equivalent)
• Experience with managed ingestion and replication tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Qlik Replicate, AWS DMS, Debezium, Kafka Connect) and streaming or near-real-time ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming, Flink)
• Data quality and observability frameworks (Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, Monte Carlo) and data cataloging, lineage, and governance tooling (Unity Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Collibra, Alation)
• Master data management, entity resolution, or record-linkage tooling, including address and geospatial standardization
• AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift), Terraform, and backend data services in C# / .NET
• AI/ML and feature-engineering pipelines and ability to apply AI assist or agentic workflows for code generation, review and root-cause analysis

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, and tuition reimbursement.

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

Base Compensation: $133,000 - $172,000 annually.

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.

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