Senior Business Analyst II

Senior Business Analyst II
Tysons Corner, VA
Active TS/SCI with Poly

As a Sr. Business Analyst II, you'll support Agile teams by gathering and refining requirements, ensuring successful delivery of capabilities, and confirming that work is ready for acceptance without major issues. You will serve as a key liaison between stakeholders and development teams, applying both business analysis expertise and Agile/Scrum practices.

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements analysis and documentation activities, including gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process observation
• Translate mission and business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications
• Create comprehensive documentation such as user stories, use cases, process flows, and system requirements
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle
• Conduct process analysis and improvement activities
• Perform gap analysis between current and future state
• Develop process maps, workflows, and standard operating procedures
• Engage in stakeholder management activities by collaborating with business users, project managers, developers, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and clarity of requirements
• Support systems analysis and testing by evaluating functionality and performance to ensure alignment with documented requirements
• Conduct data analysis and reporting activities, including creating reports, dashboards, and visualizations to support decision-making

What you'll need to succeed:

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting Agile software development programs, preferably within DoD or Intelligence Community environments
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (required)
• Proven experience translating mission and business needs into epics, features, and well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria
• Strong background collaborating with Product Owners, engineers, and Scrum teams, supporting backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release activities
• Hands-on experience using JIRA, Confluence, and/or GitHub for backlog management, requirements documentation, and traceability
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with experience eliciting requirements from business users
• Experience performing gap analyses and workflow analysis to define current vs. future state system capabilities
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing, system testing, and validation
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification required or strongly preferred, demonstrating proficiency in Agile and Scrum methodologies and the ability to effectively support teams within a Scrum framework

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.