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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 8 or more 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 user stories and acceptance criteria
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work full-time on-site at the customer location in Huntsville, Alabama
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information and ability to obtain a CI polygraph
- 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
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
