Data Operations Manager, CoStar - London
Job 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.
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.
- Overseeing new data feeds/conversions including data analysis, data mapping, testing and implementation.
- Monitoring daily feed runs, evaluating feed failures to determine root cause.
- Working with internal/external resources to resolve feed failures.
- Notifying internal team of feed performance issues and failures.
- Understanding applications and their interdependencies.
- Ensuring team metrics and goals are achieved.
- Maintaining consistent and standardised use of metrics across all reports and dashboards.
- Collaborating with various departments and products within CoStar.
- Communicating 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 a related field.
- Proficiency 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 interfacing with dynamic development teams.
- Understanding 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) 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. In addition to an outstanding working environment, you will benefit from 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre employment substance abuse testing.