Title:  (DoD SkillBridge), Business Systems Analyst Senior Specialist

Job Title: Business Systems Analyst Senior Specialist

Job Code: 31358

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Job Schedule: 9/80 Reg

L3Harris’ DoD SkillBridge is connecting transitioning service members to career training opportunities within our organization. We will provide service members with valuable civilian work experience through industry specific training, certifications and on the job experience during their DoD SkillBridge internship to help them ready themselves for their next mission.

L3Harris aims to attract and retain veteran talent and to help bridge the gap between their military service and civilian careers within our organization. L3Harris is eager to share our knowledge and experience with our service members. This internship is an opportunity for the service member to gain a full understanding of the job position outlined below.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR DOD SKILLBRIDGE JOB OPPORTUNITES YOU MUST BE AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE U.S. MILITARY WITH 180 DAYS OF SERVICE OR FEWER REMAINING PRIOR TO YOUR DATE OF SEPARATION AND HAVE AT LEAST 180 CONTINUOUS DAYS OF ACTIVE SERVICE.

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 directlly 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 serves as a Team Lead, and works directly with the team 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 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 BSA will troubleshoot issues, as well as work with Systems Engineering and Avionics teams to integrate new hardware and support functionality of existing hardware.

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 will support a program or product team in the Agile development lifecycle by developing a backlog of work items, and ensuring the completed product meets customer expectations. The Senior Specialist BSA develops the product vision and communicates it to the team, as well as tracks the progress of the development team to ensure customer deliverables are met on time. The Senior Specialist BSA supports the management of a Software Integration Laboratory (SIL) by ensuring the system is properly configured, and supports in troubleshooting and installation efforts. 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. The Senior Specialist BSA interfaces directly with customers and stakeholders, and may travel to support technical, program, and field or test events.

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 Epics and User Stories. 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 contributor to user story writing 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.
• Participates in team activities and events; owns backlog refinement and serves as a leader on the team providing vision, direction and support. Strong focus on collaboration to build a complete understanding of the customer requirements and to define a clear vision for the team.
• 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 expectations.
• Maintain a can-do attitude. Ability to tackle new and unique problems and reach solutions. Leads the team and earns the trust of others.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

• 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
• Proven background of delivering quality requirements and seeing deliverables through to completion

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
• Strong presentation skills
• 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
• Capable of effective time management
• 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
• Highly proficient grammatical skills
• Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and assignments