Agile Business Analyst

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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 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

Nice to have

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

Benefits

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