Sr. Specialist, Business Systems Analyst 1

About the job

Job Title: Specialist, Business Systems Analyst

Job Code: 41536

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

Role is contingent upon program award

Job Description:

The Business Systems Analyst, Specialist Level is an intermediate professional with experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, or experience in a related industry. The Specialist BSA will support a program or product team in the Agile development lifecycle by developing a backlog of work items, and ensuring the completed product meets customer expectations. The Specialist BSA develops the product vision and communicates it to the team, as well as tracks the progress of the development team to ensure customer deliverables are met on time. The Specialist BSA helps team members understand the integration of the software product on the SIL and develops a strong working knowledge of the system. The Specialist BSA interfaces directly with customers and stakeholders, and may travel to support technical, program, and field or test events.

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Essential Functions:

• Product ownership within an AGILE/SCRUM software development lifecycle.

• 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 adequate backlog health 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.

• 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 Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field with 6 years minimum relevant  experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience working as a Business Analyst, Engineer or experience with Department of Defense customers, hardware and software integration, or installation/maintenance of avionics systems.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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

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