Senior Technical Business Analyst- Arlington, VA
About The Position
CoStar Group is hiring a Senior Technical Business Analyst for the Enterprise Data Services – Finance (EDS-F) team. EDS-F builds and supports the platforms that run CoStar's financial systems, including billing, contracts, and enterprise financial data services. This is a technical role where you will gather and write requirements, but you will also read data, query it, and validate it yourself using SQL daily. This Technical Business Analyst will also act as the primary point of contact between EDS-F and the teams that depend on us. You will represent the team in planning discussions, intake conversations, and cross-team design reviews. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and platform constraints into terms that partner teams understand. You will support engineering managers with the delivery process, including intake, scope definition, risk and decision tracking, and release coordination. This position is located in Arlington, VA and is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit, in person, university or college. Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field are preferred.
- A track record of commitment to prior employers
- 5+ years as a business analyst, technical analyst, or product owner on software delivery teams.
- Ability to write and run SQL queries without help. You can join tables, aggregate results, and investigate a data question on your own.
- Experience writing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
- Experience with process modeling: use cases, sequence diagrams, and process flow charts.
- Experience as the interface between business stakeholders and engineers, including groups with competing priorities.
- Experience supporting an Agile or iterative delivery process.
- Clear written and verbal communication. You can write a business case and also brief an engineer.
- Experience managing several concurrent initiatives and tracking them to closure.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with financial systems: billing, contracts, revenue, or enterprise financial data.
- Experience with data platforms and reporting. This includes warehouse concepts and BI tools.
- Experience testing APIs with tools such as Postman.
- Product owner or project management experience.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence as daily working tools.
- Experience with SOX controls, audit evidence, or another regulated environment.
- Experience with AI assistants such as Claude or Copilot to speed up analysis, documentation, and delivery work.
Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for EDS-F initiatives.
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria that engineers can build from without rework.
- Query and profile data with SQL to confirm assumptions, size the work, and validate results.
- Document As-Is and To-Be process flows. Use sequence diagrams, use cases, and process maps.
- Review API contracts and data payloads with engineers to confirm the requirement is achievable.
- Support user acceptance testing. Define test scenarios and confirm that delivered work meets the stated criteria.
- Act as the first point of contact between EDS-F and partner teams in engineering, product, Finance, and Accounting.
- Run intake for incoming requests. Clarify the need, assess the impact, and route or scope the work.
- Represent EDS-F in cross-team design reviews, planning sessions, and dependency discussions.
- Explain platform constraints, data models, and delivery timelines to non-EDS-F audiences.
- Support engineering managers through the SDLC. This covers intake, scope, estimates, and release readiness.
- Track risks, issues, action items, and decisions. Follow up until each item closes.
- Maintain and improve team documentation, templates, and standard operating procedures.
- Identify process gaps and inefficiencies, then propose and drive the fix.
Benefits
- Generous compensation and performance-based incentives
- Internal training
- Tuition reimbursement
- 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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
