Agile Business Analyst
Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a Business Analyst with expertise in Agile Methodology to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama work program. The selected candidate will guide product strategy, feature prioritization, and Agile delivery for a major federal modernization and data migration program. This role leads backlog development, aligns mission and technical needs, and ensures products and features are ready for release across cloud, data, application, and migration workstreams. The Business Analyst partners closely with engineering, Scrum, QA, cloud, migration, and stakeholder teams to deliver high-quality capabilities that support mission critical outcomes.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Own, develop, and prioritize the product backlog based on mission needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and program priorities.
- Translate requirements into clear user stories, features, and acceptance criteria aligned with modernization, cloud, data, and migration initiatives.
- Manage product roadmaps, dependencies, feature sequencing, and release priorities.
- Collaborate with government customers, mission owners, Product Leads, Scrum Masters, engineering, QA, cloud, and data teams to define requirements and delivery expectations.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, technical reviews, PI planning, demos, and cross-team coordination.
- Monitor product progress, sprint performance, risks, dependencies, and delivery metrics while providing regular updates and recommendations to leadership.
- Validate feature completeness, acceptance criteria, testing coverage, defect resolution, user experience, and release readiness.
- Support secure, reliable delivery by ensuring solutions align with federal security, performance, compliance, and program governance requirements.
- Develop and maintain product and technical documentation, including user stories, feature definitions, roadmaps, design documents, API specifications, data flows, and release artifacts.
- Support troubleshooting, performance improvements, automated testing, major deployments, and knowledge sharing across cross-functional teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in product ownership, Agile delivery, technical program support, or a related field.
- Experience leading Agile teams, managing product backlogs, and delivering technology solutions.
- Strong understanding of cloud, data, application development, and modernization initiatives.
- Ability to translate technical and mission requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting national security programs.
- SAFe PO/PM, CSPO, or similar Agile certification.
- Experience with cloud modernization, enterprise systems, large-scale data migrations, DevSecOps, CI/CD, or microservices
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
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- Are you Legally Authorized to Work in the United States? In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire optional
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND INITIAL EACH PARAGRAPH BEFORE SIGNING I have disclosed all information that is relevant and should be considered applicable to my candidacy for employment. optional
- I understand, where permissible under applicable state and local law, I may be subject to a pre-employment drug screen and background check after receiving a conditional offer of employment to investigate my criminal background [, driving record][, credit history] and other matters related to my suitability for employment. optional
- I hereby certify that the information given by me is true in all respects. I authorize AnaVation, LLC and its representatives to contact my prior employers and all others (with the exception of my current employer, only if I have marked “May we contact?” of this application as “No”) for the purpose of verification of the information I have supplied and release same from any liability resulting from the information released. I authorize employers, schools and other persons named on this application to provide any information or transcripts requested. optional
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- I hereby certify that, if employed, my employment with AnaVation, LLC will not conflict with, or result in the violation of, breach of, or default under, any contract, agreement or understanding that I am a party to or am bound by, other than those I have disclosed in this application, if any. optional
- I hereby certify that, if employed, my employment with AnaVation, LLC will not violate any non-solicitation, non-competition or other similar covenant or agreement I have with any of my prior employers, other than those I have disclosed in this application, if any. optional
- I hereby certify that, if employed, I will report to my supervisor, a representative of HR or other member of management, if I am ever harassed or discriminated against by someone in the company or if I ever become aware of any unethical behavior by any employee. optional
- I expressly understand and agree that, if employed, my employment, having no specified term, is based upon mutual consent and may be terminated at will, with or without cause, by either party (AnaVation, LLC or me) without prior notice to the other, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Additionally, I understand that no representation, whether oral or written, by any representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC, at any time, can constitute an implied or express contract of employment. I further understand no representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC has the authority to enter into an agreement for employment for any specified period of time or to make any change in any policy, procedure, benefit or other terms or condition of employment other than in a document signed by the Chief Executive Officer or an authorized representative. optional
- I certify that all of the above information is true and complete, and I understand that any falsification or omission of information may disqualify you from further consideration for employment or, if hired, may result in termination regardless of the time elapsed before discovery. Note: An offer of employment is conditioned upon complying with AnaVation, LLC's requirements including, but not limited to, signing a consent to conduct a background investigation. MY SIGNATURE IS EVIDENCE THAT I HAVE READ AND AGREE WITH THE ABOVE STATEMENTS._ Applicant's signature (selecting yes below is equivalent to a handwritten signature) optional
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- Are you able to work full-time on-site in Hunstville, AL and reside within commuting distance by your start date?
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