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Job Title: Specialist, Business Systems Analyst

Job Code: 43734

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

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, Specialist Level is experienced 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 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:

• 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

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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

Physical Demands: 

       Required to sit for long periods of time

       Infrequent light physical effort required

       Written and verbal communication

       Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse

       May require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane

Education and Experience:

       Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field with 4 years minimum prior 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

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

Work Environment:

       Work performed in an office environment with people close to each other

       Working with computers, and other computer components

       Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings and weekends)

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