Technical Business Analyst - Debt Solutions

Visual Lease; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401K matching

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Job summary

CoStar Group in San Diego is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to translate business data into specifications for analytics products. You will work across product development and design to turn business goals into actionable requirements.

The role requires 3+ years in related work, experience writing use cases, and collaboration with QA and developers. Hybrid in-office schedule Mon-Thu with Friday remote, US work eligibility, and competitive base compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university.
• 3+ years of related work experience with B2C or B2B applications.
• Experience with technical documentation or product use case writing.
• Interpersonal skills and confidence in decision making.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience creating user stories with comprehensive Acceptance Criteria.
• Some experience in user testing and project management.

Responsibilities

• Understand the CoStar business, goals of our products, and collaborate with Product Development and Design.
• Write acceptance criteria for user stories for the development team.
• Maintain direct channels of communication with developers, QA, management, and product design.
• Respond to and assist with product issues raised by internal and external groups.
• Identify and document business trends/usage utilizing real data to support new features.
• Hold regular stakeholder/grooming meetings to update all parties on progress.
• Document user requirements and business rules to be used in development.
• Understand End-To-End test cases at the application and multi-application levels.
• Work with QA to ensure comprehensive testing and provide input on testing new features.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Experience with Jira

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Team Foundation Server

JIRA

Job description

Technical Business Analyst - Debt Solutions

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'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.

The Analytics team is responsible for the development of CoStar's customer-facing Real Estate Analytics products. We think big by 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 many roles and skills, and we are growing rapidly to help invent the future of Real Estate Analytics.

We are searching for an experienced Technical Business Analyst who can gather important company data and compile it into specifications that our teams can use to build world-class Analytic products. Should have the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and translate business data into digestible information that will be consumed by various development teams. Candidates should be able to analyze and solve issues that arise from customers and internal users regarding all aspects of CoStar Analytics.

This position is located in San Diego (UTC Area) and is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.

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 for the development team to do their work
• Maintain direct channels of communication with software developers, quality assurance, management, product design to accomplish team goals
• Respond and assist with product issues that are raised by internal and external groups
• Identify and document business trends/usage utilizing real data that will support new features and applications
• Holding regular stakeholder/grooming meetings to keep all interested parties updated in project progress
• Document 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.
• 3+ years of related work experience with preferably B2C or B2B applications
• Experience with technical documentation or product use case writing
• Interpersonal skills and confidence in decision making
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Project Management Tools (e.g., Team Foundation Server, JIRA)
• Experience creating user stories with comprehensive Acceptance Criteria
• Some experience in user testing and project management

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic SQL database knowledge
• Experience with Agile Development process
• Experience with complex business rules and calculations
• Commercial Real Estate knowledge
• Financial/Loan Data knowledge

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.

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)
• Access to CoStar Group's Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

Base Compensation: $78,000 - $130,000 (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.