Senior Analyst - IT

Senior Analyst - IT

Responsibilities and Activities

Analysis

• Analyze existing business processes (as-is) and define target processes (to-be) within the BALI program
• Receive, analyze, and challenge business analyses provided by business stakeholders
• Identify and formalize explicit and implicit functional requirements
• Describe processes and business rules using:
• process diagrams
• functional schemas
• functional data models
• Ensure compliance with methodological and documentation standards
• Participate in the functional design of solutions in collaboration with:
• analysts
• IT architects
• development teams
• Obtain formal validation of analyses from business stakeholders
• Estimate functional workload with developers and contribute to project planning

Interface

• Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional specifications
• Draft:
• use cases & user stories
• detailed business rules
• nominal, alternative, and error scenarios
• clear functional specifications
• Keep documentation up to date
• Actively participate in system and integration testing phases
• Work closely with developers (Java / RPG) to:
• clarify requirements
• ensure technical feasibility
• adjust solutions when necessary
• Integrate technical, application, and regulatory constraints
• Act as an advisor and support prioritization among stakeholders

Coordinator / Supervisor

• Verify compliance of developments with validated specifications
• Participate in incident management and impact analysis
• Contribute to functional and user documentation
• Ensure coordination with business and IT application managers
• Provide regular reporting to the IT Director and Program Manager

Special Conditions

• Close collaboration with the Unemployment Service
• Participation in long-term strategic projects
• Environment combining legacy systems and new technologies

Profile Sought

• Higher education in IT or equivalent
• Proven senior-level experience (minimum 8-10 years) in functional and/or business analysis
• Expertise in designing and developing scalable, distributed products/services
• Autonomous, customer-oriented, and able to propose creative solutions
• Strong sense of quality, team spirit, and initiative
• Knowledge of the unemployment domain is an asset
• Preferably Dutch-speaking (native level) with a good knowledge of French