Business Systems Analyst - Manufacturing Applications

Who We Are Williams International is a privately-owned company that develops and manufactures jet engines for both military and commercial aircraft applications. We are a company of creators who deliver pioneering ideas and technologies that lead the aerospace industry. Our culture fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning to position our team members to inspire each other and provide quality products and supporting services that exceed the expectations of our customers. ** The Opportunity** Williams International has an exciting opportunity for a Business Systems Analyst to join our team. The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) works within the Software Development organization to ensure that business needs are accurately captured, translated, and delivered as effective software solutions. The Manufacturing BSA partners directly with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) within the Manufacturing organization. ** This position is 100% onsite** The BSA collaborates daily with software engineers and business stakeholders to define requirements, design application functionality, and oversee development through structured project-management tools and methodologies. They apply strong knowledge of standard business practices, ensuring that software solutions align with operational workflows, compliance needs, and enterprise strategy. They may also support processes such as those involving nonconformances, corrective actions, first article inspections, audits, document control, inventory transactions, item master data, cycle counts, material holds, lot and serial traceability, and related ERP, MES, QMS, or WMS integrations. ** Key Responsibilities** Requirements and Process Analysis: Gather and validate business requirements through direct engagement with SMEs; document business rules, workflows, data needs, dependencies, and constraints; analyze current-state processes and help define future-state improvements. Functional Specifications: Translate business needs into user stories, functional specifications, process maps, acceptance criteria, and other documentation needed for development. Work Management: Use standard project/work-management tools for planning, tracking progress, managing timelines, and ensuring delivery of software features and fixes; break approved requirements into appropriately scoped units of work; create and maintain work items (such as epics/features, user stories, tasks, defects, and enhancement requests); document, and track as applicable, priorities, dependencies, risks, scope, acceptance criteria; maintain schedules and milestones; publish status updates and dashboards. Delivery Coordination: Review work items with the Applications Lead and development team; support backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, and release planning; track blockers, dependencies, decisions, and scope changes. Technical Collaboration: Work with developers that are writing and supporting applications and also with database specialists. Understand application behavior, data flows, integrations, and technical constraints at a functional level. Testing and Validation: Develop test scenarios and test cases; support functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; document defects and validate completed functionality against approved requirements. Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a liaison between business users, SMEs, developers, technical teams, and leadership. Communicate requirements, decisions, risks, and changes clearly. Support and Change Managem