Senior Functional Analyst – Large-Scale Application Modernization
Brussels-Capital
Digital - Analysis
Work experience: 5-7
Reference number: 92503
You will work as a senior functional analyst in a large-scale digital transformation program, focused on the modernization of a complex, business-critical application landscape. The context is a highly regulated environment with strong demands on reliability, traceability, and quality. You translate business analysis into clear, technically grounded functional and technical analyses that can be directly consumed by development and test teams working in Agile delivery cycles.
Your responsibilities include
- Translating business analyses into functional and technical analyses aligned with architectural standards and interface specifications.
- Producing “sprint-ready” backlog items with clear functional, technical, and acceptance criteria, deliverable within 3-week sprints.
- Coordinating closely with developers, testers, architects, and service managers to ensure shared understanding of scope, constraints, and expected outcomes.
- Defending and clarifying analyses during Agile refinement ceremonies.
- Ensuring stakeholders have a realistic view on delivery scope, timelines, and constraints.
- Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and contributing to problem definition and solution identification in case of production incidents.
- Qualifying and validating test datasets and supporting root-cause analysis of application issues.
- Contributing to knowledge sharing and coaching junior analysts within the team.
What are we looking for?
- You have at least 10 years of experience as a Functional Analyst, Technical Analyst, or similar role in complex IT environments.
- You have proven experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery, including refinement, sprint planning, and acceptance criteria definition.
- You have strong experience with functional and technical analysis, including modelling and design tools (UML, sequence diagrams, data models)You have hands-on experience producing acceptance criteria for both business and technical validation.
- You are comfortable working in complex, multi-team delivery contexts with strong architectural governance.
- You can read and analyze data using SQL to support validation, error analysis, and troubleshooting.
- You have at least a basic knowledge of testing methodologies and how analysts support testing activities.
- Experience acting as project coordinator or project manager in addition to analysis responsibilities.
- Experience in modernization projects, including migration from monolithic architectures to microservices-based architectures.
- Experience in domains such as Accounting, Transaction and order management, Rule engines, Interface and integration management is nice to have
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, SoapUI is a bonus
- You are fluent in English, and you have a good working knowledge of Dutch or French.
What do we offer?
Contract: Freelance or Permanent
Start date: No later than 01/04/2026
Duration: 1 year, with option to extend
Location: Brussels (hybrid)
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