Senior Specialist Product Owner

L3Harris Technologies • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing 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 the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technology or business related field with 6 years minimum prior work experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Supports the development of the product roadmap; owns the development of the release plan.
• Breaks down feature requests, product goals, requirements and strategic objectives into prioritizable work items.
• Works directly with customers and stakeholders to understand the intent of requirements and feature requests.
• Prioritizes features for development to ensure product delivery schedules are met or exceeded.
• Tracks project deliveries, analyzes business metrics, and reports status of feature/product completion.
• 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.
• 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: backlog refinement, team stand-up, sprint demonstration, sprint planning.
• Assists in writing and reviewing technical documentation that will be delivered as part of a product delivery.
• Communicates with stakeholders at varying technical and leadership levels.
• Coordinates directly with customers and contract officials, as well as gives presentations and briefs of product status.
• Supports maintenance of the SIL (Software Integration Lab) and able to effectively demonstrate the product to stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Accepts the work of the development team each sprint, ensuring delivered product is operating in accordance with the product goals/objectives.
• Strong leadership skills, and able to lead through adversity and conflict.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree