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Team Lead, Technical Business Analyst
Job Description
Homes.com offers today's demanding home buyers, renters, and those somewhere in between a simply smarter home search. With features like Homes.com Match, HomeShare and Snap & Search, homeshoppers now have a more personalized way to search for their next home. Since its launch over 25 years ago, Homes.com offers real estate professionals' brand and property advertising, search engine marketing and instant response lead generation to help them succeed online.
This position is in our Irvine, CA office and has the opportunity for hybrid work with up to two days remote per week. Four-day work weeks are also an option for those applicants that are interested.
Our Irvine, CA team is seeking an accomplished
Team Lead, Technical Business Analyst to join our team in supporting the supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as www.homes.com and www.homesnap.com. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Homes web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Homes' software products
Major responsibilities:
• Lead discovery sessions between product managers, technical managers, and user experience designers to gather requirements to build market-leading consumer web products.
• Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders and product management to help build project charters, business processes, and business process activities.
• Gather business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, detailed, and consumable user stories that can be developed within an agile scrum framework.
• Write detailed Acceptance Criteria in the form of Behavior Driven Development scenarios for User Stories that can be understood by business stakeholders, software developers, and quality assurance analysts.
• Facilitate technical design meetings between different technical managers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems for which you are defining requirements.
• Foster a high level understanding of technical solutions so you can explain the solution to developers and Quality Assurance (QA) analysts.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions with a scrum team to help explain and answer questions so they can accurately story point the delivery effort.
• Perform end-to-end User Acceptance Testing including front end manual testing as well data validation in SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Work closely with the product manager and technical manager to help create and shape release plans.
• Review automation tests and quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover the relevant business scenarios.
• Work with product managers to help define their key performance indicators (KPI) for new initiatives.
• Be able to analyze and collect KPI metrics and reporting to be delivered to the product manager so they can report on the progress and success of their products and initiatives to senior management.
• Provide input and feedback on product roadmaps.
• Work with UX designers to help refine prototypes and/or high-fidelity mockups based on requirements you have gathered.
Qualifications
• 2 years of lead experience, managing and mentoring business analysts.
• 5+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, MIS, computer science, or other related technical field.
• Experience supporting consumer facing web products.
• This role is highly self-directed. Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must.
• Must understand relational data models and be comfortable writing basic SQL.
• Software coding experience background is a plus.
• Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role.
• Agile/Scrum experience is required
• Previous project management experience is a plus
OVERVIEW OF COMPANY:
Founded in 1987, CoStar Group is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Our suite of online services enables clients to analyze, interpret and gain unmatched insight on commercial property values, market conditions and current availability. Behind some of the most well-known brands in the industry, CoStar Group includes CoStar, the largest provider of CRE research and real-time data; LoopNet, the most heavily trafficked mobile and online real estate marketplace; Apartments.com, the premier rental home resource for renters, property managers and owners; STR, the leading provider of performance benchmarking and comparative analytics to the hotel industry; BizBuySell, the largest online marketplace for businesses-for-sales; and Lands of America, the leading operator of online marketplaces for rural real estate.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar Group maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Canada, and Asia with a staff of over 4,300 worldwide.
WHATS 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. In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you'll be supported in both 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 Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
Be part of a team of professionals enjoying the opportunity to learn, do, and grow in a rewarding atmosphere. But don't just take our word for it see why our team chose to work at and stay at CoStar Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbJRnJ2sX0
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar 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
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
