Functional Analyst, Belgium

Sector: Our client is a prominent player in the financial sector, recognized for its comprehensive
range of banking and financial services. With a global presence, it serves a diverse clientele,
including individuals, corporations, and institutions. Emphasizing innovation and
customer-centricity, it leverages advanced technologies to deliver tailored solutions that meet
the evolving needs of its stakeholders.

The Functional Analyst clearly identifies the problems that the business are experiencing and/or
the business requirements and maps out possible solutions that can be developed and
integrated in the enterprise production environment. The Functional Analyst investigates costs
and benefits. The Functional Analyst consequently designs the chosen solution in detail,
defining exactly what it should look like, which data are involved, and which processes are
supported.

What you’ll do:

  • Functional and technical knowledge of existing IT systems. Creation of swagger files and
    Creation of API services
  • Accompany the business analyst and client through the reflection towards a solution –
    propose alternative and adequate solutions in line with enterprise architecture and
    strategy and considering cost/benefit.
  • Ensure that the client understands and adopts enterprise rules and standards
    concerning architectural standards, security, …
  • Work together with the architects to set up the architecture
  • Close collaboration with project manager / asset manager / product owner
  • Relay between the client, business analyst and involved asset teams, coordination of the
    involved asset teams (unified view towards the client – ensure that all involved IT parties
    clearly understand the client needs)
  • Functional elaboration of the chosen solution alternative, translation of the business
    requirements in detailed functional requirements
  • Align with involved assets on the functional responsibilities each asset will need to
    implement
  • Application design of the solution, identifying and detailing the impacts on the different
    application components as specified in the architecture
  • Align with the different technical teams of the asset to specify each of their requirements
  • Follow-up of development and testing to ensure coherence between the functional
    specifications and the developed solution
  • Provide the technical definitions of components that are supported by different teams
    (queues, security, integration layers, …)
  • Support suppliers during the development and integration and assembly testing (I&AT)
    Analyze defects during test phase
  • Support the release and deployment teams in the different environments

What you bring:

  • A positive attitude and pragmatism
  • thirst for knowledge: Agile is about learning and adapting. Knowledge sharing is key to
    success.
  • The goal of team success: Agile is about the success of the team, no individual success
    or heroic behavior. It is more important for the team to succeed than for the individual to
    have completed his/her tasks.
  • There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting
    actions based on the feedback, resulting in continuous improvement.