Job Description

COSTAR GROUP - DATA OPERATIONS MANAGER, COSTAR - LONDON

OVERVIEW

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 digitise 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 is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.

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DESCRIPTION

The Data Operations Manager is responsible for assisting the Senior Director, Feed Operations & Partnerships with overseeing and monitoring the seamless integration of data from multiple sources. This candidate will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to demonstrate the benefits of providing data through an automated feeds process. Other duties include ensuring continuous connectivity to feed sources, the migration of clients across various platforms and managing reporting to various users. The ideal candidate will bring their knowledge and expertise to create effective innovative solutions for our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading data integration projects, ensuring they are completed on time and meet organisational needs.
• Overseeing team performance, setting clear goals, and ensuring alignment with project objectives and deadlines.
• Working closely with software engineers, data analysts, and business users to understand integration requirements and devise solutions.
• Designing processes to map and transform data from source to target systems efficiently.
• Troubleshooting and resolving data integration issues to maintain data integrity and reliability.
• Maintaining comprehensive documentation of integration processes, data flows, and protocols.
• Continuously improving data integration strategies for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Utilising and managing integration tools or platforms to facilitate data flow and consistency.
• Oversee new data feeds/conversions including data analysis, data mapping, testing and implementation.
• Monitor daily feeds runs, evaluate feed failures to determine root cause.
• Work with internal/external resources to resolve feed failures.
• Notify internal team of feed performance issues and failures.
• Understand applications and their interdependencies.
• Ensuring team metrics and goals are achieved.
• Maintain consistent and standardized use of metrics across all reports and dashboards.
• Collaborate with various departments and products within CoStar.
• Communicate issue statuses and challenges to senior management.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Track record of commitment to prior employers.
• 5 years of experience in data integration or related field.
• Proficient in MS Office tools required.
• Experience with C#, Json, Python and XML.
• Experience with SQL Server databases, preferably Microsoft SQL Server, and creating SQL queries Experience in relational database, data analysis, and performance tuning; experience testing, and maintaining reporting processes.
• Effectively interface with dynamic development teams.

• Understand data elements in the data warehouse at a very detailed level to support any form of user needs from research to ad-hoc queries to managing large information projects.
• Experience in managing integration projects, including timelines, deliverables, stakeholder communications.
• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g., Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, etc.) when dealing with internal and/or external audiences.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment, equipped to help you to be your best, other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

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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