Product Owner (Senior Specialist, Business System Analyst)

L3HHCM20•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a technology or business related field and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree in a technology or business related field and a minimum of 4 years of prior relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
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 security clearance

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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