Title:  Specialist, Business Systems Analyst

Job Title:  Specialist, Business System Analyst       

Job Number: 21825

Job Location:    Nashville, TN

Schedule:  9/80 Reg

Clearance: Must Have the Ability to Obtain a DoD Security Clearance

Job Summary:

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, Specialist Level is a professional with experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, or significant experience in a related industry. The 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 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 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 a 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, stakeholders, and systems engineers/architects 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 ensure the development team understands the customer requirements and features to be developed, as well as to communicate the status of the product to customers and stakeholders.
• Primary contributor to user story writing and backlog development. Develops and prioritizes the backlog of work for the team, using inputs from the engineering and customer groups. 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. Collaborates to build a complete understanding of the customer requirements and to define a clear vision for the team.
• Assists in writing and reviewing technical documentation that will be delivered as part of a contract.
• Accepts the work of the development team each sprint, ensuring delivered product is operating in accordance with the customer’s expectations.
• Maintains a can-do attitude. Ability to tackle new and unique problems and reach solutions. 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 4 years minimum prior work experience

OR

• 8 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.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong presentation skills
• 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
• Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and assignments

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