Principal Real Estate Data Consultant

Job Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery of business requirements from client's perspective, translated into specifications which will deliver the right mix of data elements to enable clients to make timely and insightful decisions
• Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure data needs are well understood
• Gather requirements from internal and external stakeholders to write extract specifications that meet client's needs
• Define user stories and requirements and conduct research / analysis in support of developing standardized layouts and packages to meet requirements
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs (including acceptance criteria) for the development of custom data extracts, or (preferentially) new standard data products
• Validate specifications with internal and external stake-holders to ensure they are consistent with articulated business requirements and deliver the expected results
• Coordinate issue resolution across multiple teams

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, relevant discipline, or equivalent experience
• Typically has 10+ years of Business/Process Analyst or directly related experience in the same or related industry
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into complete and deliverable specifications
• Excellent organizational and project management and facilitation skills. Ability to prioritize and handle multiple concurrent projects
• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with/influencing cross-functional teams and gaining consensus. Strong listening and question-based knowledge gathering skills
• Ability to synthesize and analyze data from a variety of sources, identify issues, draw conclusions, and craft solutions
• Experience working as a member of a distributed team. Ability to organize and coordinate with stakeholders across multiple functions and geographic locations
• Domain knowledge covering one or more aspects of the real estate economy (mortgage servicing, property insurance, credit, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience authoring SQL queries
• Familiarity with diverse coding, profiling, and visualization approaches including Python, Tableau, and Google Cloud
• Extensive knowledge of client base, product, and data offerings
• Understanding of Big Data, Cloud, Machine Learning approaches and concepts