We are looking for

EXPERT – A Dutch-speaking senior analyst for projects for the Flemish government (NL). Minimum five years of experience for a long-term assignment. The analyst is part of a team of developers, architect, test analyst, and project leader in an Agile team. Developments are done in Java and the analyses are written in Dutch.

Lead Functional Analyst

– Planning, executing, and supervising scoping activities, defining requirements, and setting priorities with clients.

– Obtaining and reaching agreement on requirements from a broad and diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.

– Defining and maintaining a global and hierarchical overview of requirements for complex applications.

– Mapping out complex application systems to make them understandable for the client.

– Ensuring consistency in the proposed solution.

– Coordinating the creation and integration of integrated business models.

– Taking the lead in creating data models for complex business domains and ensuring consistency between data models and the requirements of various stakeholders.

– Performing systemic analyses and assessing the structural impact of changes in requirements on the entire information management system.

– Identifying and aligning effects and dependencies with other applications that use the same components (requires internal coordination within Smals and client teams).

– Coordinating substantive activities between the various involved TO&P teams.

– Identifying various risks, analyzing their impact and likelihood, and proposing risk management solutions to the project manager and the client.

– Ensuring the generic characteristics of the functionalities to be developed with a view to ReUse and synergies.

– Organizing communication between the various involved development teams.

– Assisting the project leader in assigning tasks to the development teams based on capacity and planning.

– Advising and guiding other employees on a regular basis regarding various aspects of functional analysis.

– Answering questions from the development teams (architects and developers).

– Documenting the system (drawing up/checking technical files + user documents) and/or controls.

– Drawing up test strategies for complex systems.

– Coordinating the test teams to ensure overall test coverage.

– Supervising test execution and validation of results.

– Reporting on analysis and testing activities, results, issues, and risks, including the work of others.

– Ensuring that the quality of the applications under his/her scope is guaranteed during development: quality of analyses, test coverage, documentation, presentation, training, etc.

– Detecting and reporting training needs to the project leader.

– Assisting the project leader in defining and assessing individual objectives.

– Coaching and training new employees in business knowledge and knowledge of the project and the methodologies used.

– Negotiating with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.

– Drawing up and monitoring budgets in consultation with management and clients.

– Drawing up and monitoring schedules, taking into account:

• the assignment/allocation of tasks to employees

• the workload

• the priorities

• the predetermined budgets

• the quality requirements

– Monitoring the project (quality, process/evolution, costs: invoicing and imputations) in which he/she:

• ensures compliance with established quality standards and methodologies

• guarantees the conformity of the specifications

• adapts the planning to changing situations

• monitors the budget and timely signals any budget overruns

– Collaborating with the database administrator or the Data group to make decisions regarding the database, if necessary.

– Supervising the installation of the information system in the production environment.

– Coordinating activities with the internal security, core systems & middleware, and operations departments.

– Is consulted for decisions on whether or not to execute a project thanks to his/her expertise.

– Collaborating with cross-functional teams (functional and technical), SDO, JDSS, and SIC to develop standards and procedures.

– Disseminating and enforcing the results of standardization efforts.

– Proposing new topics for standardization.

– Explaining proposals to expand reuse (ReUse).

– Actively contributing to the dissemination of content during plenary meetings of analysts.

– Being aware of the risks of possible damage.

– Reporting new risks.

– Complying with applicable rules and policies and ensuring they are observed.

– Acting as a role model and behaving according to the prescribed code of conduct.

– Ensuring the dissemination and application of security and data protection rules within the project teams in which he/she works.