REIT Data Strategy Consultant
Location: New York-based client
Duration: 6+ months
Rate – DOE
Role Overview
We are looking for a business-oriented Data Strategy Consultant with strong commercial real estate experience to support a strategic enterprise data initiative for Tishman Speyer.
The ideal candidate should understand how a commercial real estate organization operates across the lifecycle, from investment and acquisition through development, leasing, property operations, asset management, financial performance and investor returns.
This is not a Data Engineer or purely technical Data Architect role. We need someone who can sit with business stakeholders, understand their processes and decisions, and translate them into enterprise data requirements.
Key Responsibilities
· Conduct workshops with Investments, Asset Management, Development, Leasing, Property Management, Finance and Technology stakeholders.
· Understand real estate business processes, operational pain points and critical business decisions.
· Identify the data required to support those processes and decisions, including where it originates, how it is used and who should own it.
· Define and validate enterprise data domains, business entities and relationships, including:
o Property / Asset / Building / Space
o Tenant / Customer / Counterparty
o Lease / Occupancy
o Investment / Deal
o Fund / Vehicle / Investor
o Development / Capital Projects
o Vendor / Service Provider
o Financial & Performance Data
· Help determine systems of record, authoritative data sources, critical data elements, data ownership, and data-quality requirements.
· Support development of business glossaries, conceptual data models, governance models and data strategy roadmaps.
· Translate business requirements into actionable requirements for MDM, Databricks, analytics, semantic models and data governance teams.
Required Experience
· 10+ years of experience in data strategy, management consulting, business architecture, information/data management, or similar roles.
· 4-5+ years of meaningful commercial real estate experience within a REIT, real estate investment manager, developer, property manager or consulting organization serving the industry.
· Strong understanding of several of the following:
o Investment & Asset Management
o Acquisition / Underwriting
o Commercial Leasing
o Property & Facility Operations
o Development / Construction / CapEx
o Real Estate Finance & Accounting
o Fund / Investor Management
· Familiarity with real estate concepts such as lease, tenant, occupancy, rent roll, NOI, CapEx, valuation, property hierarchy, fund/vehicle structures and asset performance.
· Experience conducting business workshops and translating business processes into data domains, entities, relationships, ownership and data requirements.
· Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Experience
Exposure to real estate platforms such as Yardi, MRI, VTS, Dealpath, ARGUS Enterprise or Procore, and enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Databricks, Tableau or Power BI is valuable.
Deep hands-on engineering expertise is not required. Business/domain expertise is more important.
