Sr. Spec, Business Systems Analyst (24613)

Job Title: Sr. Spec Business System Analyst

Job Code:24613

Job Location: Nashville TN

Work Schedule: 9/80 Reg (off every-other Friday)

About L3Harris Technologies:

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values dedication to our communities and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space air land sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47000 employees with customers in more than 100 countries.

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 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.

Job Requirements:

• 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

Minimum 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
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance which requires US citizenship

Preferred Skills (beyond required):

• 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

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors 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

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
• This is an on-site position

Personal Protective Equipment:

• As required by program needs

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)