Senior Business Functional Analyst
Job Description:
Mission Overview:
Keystone Solutions is seeking a Senior Business/Functional Analyst for a consultancy mission at a client site. In this role, you will be part of a senior startup team laying the foundations for a comprehensive multilingual legal and regulatory knowledge base. This position represents an opportunity to work on dynamic projects that enhance public service through modern digital solutions.
Your Role:
As an experienced and motivated Senior Business/Functional Analyst, you will act as a bridge between business needs and IT solutions. You will gather requirements, model information, and write specifications that guide AI-assisted development, ensuring a systematic human review process. This role will be carried out under Keystone Solutions' consultancy model, focusing on delivering high-quality results.
Main Responsibilities:
- Facilitate workshops with content managers, business experts, and key users (both internal and external).
- Map current processes: writing, translation, validation, publication, and depublication.
- Establish a functional inventory of the existing application: search, taxonomy, subscriptions, user profiles.
- Gather and prioritize requirements (MoSCoW) and manage the product backlog.
- Define personas and user journeys (internal collaborator, external professional, citizen, API partner, AI tools).
- Specify the document classification model (public, internal, restricted, embargo) and formalize publication rules with the business.
- Write intention specifications that guide an AI-assisted development pipeline, with clear acceptance criteria.
- Functionally validate increments and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Bridge the gap between business and IT, diving into data (SQL) to support hypotheses.
Your Profile:
You should have extensive experience as a Business/Functional Analyst in complex IT and data environments. Key qualifications include:
- Strong requirements engineering and specification writing skills with acceptance criteria (e.g., Volere/Robertson, use cases, Gherkin).
- Comfortable with Agile methodologies: epics, user stories, story maps, backlog management.
- Proficient in process and information modeling: BPMN, UML, conceptual/information models.
- Data-oriented: good knowledge of SQL and affinity for data analysis and visualization (Power BI, Python).
- Experience in data modeling and/or data governance is a significant advantage.
- Familiarity with API programs and integration patterns (event-driven, pub/sub) is a plus.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture notations (Archimate, TOGAF) is a plus.
- Languages: Dutch (native or equivalent), good knowledge of French and English.
- Motivated, proactive, and results-oriented, with a keen sense of both the big picture and the details in data.
Mandatory Skills:
- Requirements engineering & specifications with acceptance criteria (Volere/Robertson)
- Business/Functional Analysis
- Additional skills listed in the 'Skills' section
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today at Keystone Solutions Career Portal.
Duration: As soon as possible - 31/12/2027 18 months • (full time)
Skills required:
- Agile - Level: Expert - Most recent: Any time
- Archimate - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time
- Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) - Level: Expert - Most recent: Any time
- Data Governance - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time
- Open API - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time
- Power BI - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time
- Python - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time
- SQL - Level: Confirmed - Most recent: Any time
Language requirements:
Dutch or French
Level Native
English
Level Active knowledge