Senior Specialist, Business Systems Analyst

Job Title: Senior Speciast, Business Analyst

Job Code: 14611

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Schedule: 9/80

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 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, as part of the Agile software development lifecycle. The BSA partners directly with Program Managers to effectively track software delivery, as well as other deliverables, and ensures our scope and schedule are met by creating and maintaining a Release Plan. The BSA works directly with a Scrum Master to ensure deliverables are met with sustainable practices and processes.

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 entire system. BSAs will 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 BSA will troubleshoot issues, as well as work with Systems Engineering and Avionics teams to integrate new hardware and support functionality of existing hardware.

Essential Functions:

• Develops a 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.
• Breaks down large capabilities and requirements into actionable work items.
• Works directly with customers and stakeholders to understand the intent of requirements and feature requests.
• 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. Communicates the status of the product to customers and stakeholders, as well as ensures development team members understand the customer requirements and features to be developed.
• Primary author of work items (user stories) and backlog development.
• Develops, maintains and prioritizes a healthy backlog using Agile Scrum practices, making informed prioritization decisions based on customer and stakeholder input. Ensures development team has appropriate amount of work prioritized for sprint backlogs and sets clear vision and goals for the sprint.
• Strong focus on collaboration to build a complete understanding of the customer requirements and to define a clear vision for the team.
• Participates in team activities and events; owns backlog refinement.
• Assist in writing and reviewing technical documentation that will be delivered as part of a contract.
• 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.
• Accepts the work of the development team each sprint, ensuring delivered product is operating in accordance with the customer's requirements.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
• Travel up to 20%

Minimum Qualifications:

• Project lead experience with proven background of delivering quality requirements and seeing deliverables through to completion
• Bachelor's degree in a technology or business-related field with 6 years minimum prior work experience or
  
  10 years of prior experience working as a Business Analyst, Engineer or experience with Department of Defense customers, hardware and software integration, or installation/maintenance of avionics systems
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance from the U.S. Government which requires U.S. Citizenship
• Effective time management of schedules for the program
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• Strong understanding of requirements of engineering practices for solicitation of information and derivation of requirements
• Good critical thinking and analytical skills
• Good customer relations skills and the ability to build relationships
• Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to a changing environment
• Ability to utilize multiple desktop publishing and still-image editing programs
• Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and assignments

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of and ability to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies