Functional Analyst

What you will do

You will join an ICT development team responsible for a portfolio of business-critical applications and cross-departmental processes. Your role as functional analyst includes:

• Meeting with product owners to understand their needs and requirements for their products
• Analysing and synthesising requirements into functional designs that validate proposed solutions with product owners and guide developers in implementing the required functionality
• Acting as the point of contact, both within and outside the team, for functional questions related to the applications and domains in the team's portfolio
• Designing graphical user interfaces for web applications
• Working on multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Contributing to testing activities including functional tests, regression tests, test scenarios, demos and test sessions

The applications and domains you will work on contain a range of existing and new functional frameworks used by many other applications within the organisation. The team also builds and maintains applications for managing these functional building blocks, as well as applications supporting cross-departmental processes including customer identification.

Your functional designs must fit within the general functional framework established within the organisation.

What we are looking for

Essential requirements:

• At least 5 years of demonstrable professional experience as a functional analyst with large business-critical applications
• Demonstrable experience and affinity with designing graphical user interfaces for web applications
• Demonstrable experience in the technical environments within which the projects are situated
• Demonstrable experience with Balsamiq
• Demonstrable professional experience working in a SCRUM context
• Demonstrable professional experience with multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Demonstrable professional experience with testing (functional tests, regression tests, test scenarios, demos and test sessions)
• Strong analytical thinking skills and the ability to produce clear, understandable syntheses
• Dutch language skills at European CEFR level C2

Desirable requirements:

• Demonstrable experience with requirement analysis and design concepts for OO, multi-tier and web-enabled, and/or UML environments
• Demonstrable knowledge of relational databases
• Strong communication skills and the ability to exchange information and knowledge fluently with both clients and developers
• A true team player who can also work independently on analyses
• Knowledge and experience of data and process modelling techniques and tools
• Relevant demonstrable knowledge within the agricultural domain

The setting

This role runs from 20 November 2026 to 31 May 2027. You will work within the digitalisation and organisation department of a Belgian public-sector organisation. Hybrid working is possible.

The working language is Dutch.