Sr. Specialist, Business Systems Analyst 1

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Business Systems Analyst 

Job Code: 46429

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Job Schedule: 9/80 employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Role is contingent upon program award

Job Description:

The Business Systems Analyst at L3Harris ForceX serves as the Product Owner and as liaison between the customer and the development team. The BSA is responsible for setting the vision for the product, and for prioritizing and accepting the work generated by the team to ensure the vision is met. The BSA is also responsible for communicating customer requirements and feature requests to the software development team. The BSA will work closely with Systems Engineers, Solution Architects and software engineering teams to break customer requirements into work items. The BSA partners directly with Program Managers to effectively track product delivery and are responsible for creating and maintaining a Release Plan.

ForceX BSAs are assigned to a program or programs, and will interface directly with customers, stakeholders and vendors. BSAs have an operational, high-level knowledge of the software product and how it interfaces with the system as a whole, and can support technical customer meetings, integration events, and ground/flight test events. The BSA ensures an operational Software Integration Laboratory (SIL) is maintained to support iterative development and test.

The Business Systems Analyst, Senior Specialist Level is a senior professional with experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, or significant experience in a related industry. The Senior Specialist BSA helps team members understand the integration of the software product on the SIL and has a strong working knowledge of the system as a whole. The Senior Specialist BSA builds effective working relationships across the team and organization and leads software development teams in day-to-day product development activities.

Essential Functions:

• Develops product vision and strategy, and communicates it with other BSAs, software development team members, customers and stakeholders


• Develops a product roadmap or release plan, and prioritizes features for development to ensure product delivery schedules are met or exceeded


• Serves as the Product Owner, and communicates product vision, strategy and purpose to the team, effectively translating customer requirements


• Tracks project deliveries, analyzes business metrics, and reports status of deliverables


• Uses strong communication skills (written, verbal, visual) to effectively bridge the knowledge gaps between the members of the team, technical and non-technical 


• Develops, maintains and prioritizes a healthy backlog using Agile Scrum practices, making informed prioritization decisions based on customer and stakeholder input


• Collaborates with team to build a complete understanding of the customer requirements


• Assist in writing and reviewing technical documentation


• Communicates with stakeholders at varying technical levels; coordinates directly with customers and contract officials, as well as give presentations and briefs of program status, including existing and new/future requirements


• Maintain a can-do attitude; ability to tackle new and unique problems and reach solutions


• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed


• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field with 6 years minimum relevant  experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience working as a Business Analyst, Engineer or experience with Department of Defense customers, hardware and software integration, or installation/maintenance of avionics systems.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively


• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment


• Good critical thinking and analytical skills


• Good customer relations skills and the ability to build relationships


• Capable of effective time management


• Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities


• Highly proficient grammatical skills


• Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and assignments

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to a changing environment


• Ability to utilize multiple desktop publishing and still-image editing programs


• Strong presentation skills


• Strong understanding of requirements of engineering practices for solicitation of information and derivation of requirements

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