Why is Ansible Tower backup failing with "'ansible_user' is undefined"

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Issue

Tower backup fails with the following error:

"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'ansible_user' is undefined"

Environment

Ansible Tower >= 3.5.4

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