Senior functional designer

NextLink
is having an existing position as a Senior functional
designer in Brussels area, Belgium.

General information:

- Start date: ASAP

- Duration: 12 months renewable

- Workload: full time

- Work location: Brussels area, Belgium

The back-end applications are developed in
COBOL (Micro Focus) with SQL databases, and require

interaction with various technologies and
teams for front-end, printing and communication components.

In this role, the candidate will receive
high-level functional requirements, analyse them and design robust IT
solutions. The solution scope may cover assets such as the user interface,
business logic and database architecture. The candidate will follow up the
implementation of their designs and setup a test approach.

Working autonomously, they will interact
directly with the IS Project Manager to agree on scope and

milestones, and will report progress to IS
stakeholders. The functional analyst should also be able to review source code
when needed and to write SQL queries on demand.

Beyond project delivery, the candidate
will support platform stability by monitoring and responding to production
incidents and coordinating remediation efforts when needed.

Proven experience in functional analysis,
user interface design, testing, COBOL within an insurance IT

environment and professional knowledge of
Dutch are required.

Main objectives:

- Ensure the stability and operability of
the (sub)application.

- Be in charge of translating business
requirements into a structured IT solution while keeping a

functional approach.

- Help translating this functional design
into well-tailored technical design.

- Prepare functional integration test
cases based on the requirements

- Test the product before delivery to the
users

- Analyse potential corrective actions to
be taken.

- Coordinate technical designers and
programmers during implementation of functionalities

- Work closely with the business to ensure
the final solution fits their needs.

- Actively support the Project leaders in
the project implementation

Profile:

• Language: English fluent + Dutch fluent (French is a bonus)

• Level of education
required Master or Engineer in IT or in a scientific domain with IT interest.
Bachelor with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in technical analysis.

• Minimum 5 years
experience

Experience with
Application Development of Administrative systems in an IT department

• Able to capture
main topics in discussions with technical IT people

• Mastering of
MS-office tools

• Strong
understanding of Source code Cobol Microfocus and SQL server

• Insurance or banking domain

• Functional
analysis

• Lead functional
analyst

• IT solution
design on large scale projects

• Agile &
Waterfall project methodology

• Architectural
design

Bonus :

•
Ability to interact with all technical and non-technical members of the
organization

•
Creative

•
Dynamic

•
Life Insurance

•
Contract management, claims and finance

• Web
based Client/Server systems with MF back-end (Cobol Microfocus / SQL server)

•
Batch process experience

•
Cobol Microfocus / SQL server programming experience

•
.NET ; SQL