Senior Technical Business Analyst- Arlington, VA

Senior Technical Business Analyst – Arlington, VA

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.

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. You will gather and write requirements, but you will also read data, query it, and validate it yourself. You will use 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 in both directions: business need into technical requirements, and platform constraints into terms that partner teams understand. You will support the engineering managers with the delivery process.

This includes 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 and Analysis

• 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.

Cross‑Team Liaison

• 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.

Delivery and Process Support

• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit, in person, university or college. Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a…