Technical Business Analyst
Dallas, TX
About Fortress
Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $49 billion assets under management as of March 31, 2024. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of over 2,000 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity, and permanent capital investment strategies. Fortress is headquartered in New York, with offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Dallas, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Rome, Menlo Park (CA), Sydney and Tokyo.
About the Position
The Technology & Data leadership team is seeking an experienced Business Analyst and Platform Solutions leader to manage the delivery of technology solutions for key stakeholders within the US and European Real Estate business. The individual will be driving and managing the successful execution of key projects across the team. The role requires the individual to mobilize cross- functional teams towards agreed upon goals showcasing key benefits. The individual will be accountable for overseeing and reporting progress on the portfolio. Furthermore, the individual will be assisting the leadership team on other key business initiatives.
Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
- Direct and manage a portfolio of projects and ensure that the implementation plans for each project is on track for the Real Estate business.
- Develop and manage key relationships across the Real Estate team along with other key functions within the technology team.
- Lead a select set of high priority projects to completion by mobilizing a cross functional team.
- Serve as point of contact to determine priority, resourcing and capacity planning for new projects.
- In partnership with key stakeholders within Real Estate and Technology, develop a comprehensive technology roadmap to address key priorities, allowing for continued scale and growth.
- Conduct a regular project review with key stakeholders and the technology leadership team
Requirements
- Math or Technical Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum of 5 years prior experience in investment technology consulting and delivery, preferably in the real estate investment industry.
- Ability to manage relationships with leadership teams and collaborate with asset managers and analysts for implementation and problem solving.
- Strong written and oral communication and ability to convey complex concepts to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to understand the details but at the same time convey relevant facts to a senior audience.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel is required to understand asset models and complex spreadsheets.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Prior experience in working with Real Estate and/or Private Equity and Credit investors and technologies used in the real estate space, ranging from deal pipeline systems, Power BI reporting and relevant analytics.
- Prior experience utilizing relevant Real Estate Investment Management systems such as Real Page, Yardi, MRI and Real Insight is a plus. Prior experience building and deploying no- code database platforms such as QuickBase.
Please note that this job description is a general outline of the responsibilities and requirements for the Technical Business Analyst. Additional duties may be assigned as needed.
Technology Team Overview
The Fortress Technology team is a progressive, global technology organization laser focused on improving its user community's impact through technology. It is responsible for delivering the technical infrastructure, end-user computing, mobile and business application platforms required for a global, multi-asset class enterprise to operate in a reliable, scalable, and secure environment.
An integral part of the enterprise, the Fortress Application Development teams interact daily with business teams, and all parts of the technology organization.