Description
Cobol DB2 Financial Applications Business experience 5/10 years experience must be able to speak Dutch & French
Strong interest for Business Process Analysis
* Good knowledge in modelling applications and processes, Functional architecture
Preferable * Knowledge of Financial systems
Technical experience required
Mandatory
* Excellent knowledge of MS Office Tools
* Understanding of relevant technologies and development life cycles
Preferable * Cobol, DB2 (+.Net, SQL)
Functional experience required 5 Years
Mandatory
* Experience in solution analysis
*Deep knowledge and experience of architecture: Service Oriented Architecture, design patterns, architecture methodologies
* Building and construction functional design of insurance
applications parts
Preferable
* Experience in functional Enterprise Architecture (trough projects)
* Insurance and/or banking applications
Objective of the job
The key missions of a functional architect are
a. Defining the Functional Architecture of a project, while ensuring a maximum functional flexibility of systems over years:
i. Defining the "what" of a project,
ii. Defining the "why",
iii. Defining the "how to manage" (propose & evaluate alternatives for project implementation, phases, dependencies between the blocks and
between the projects )
iv. Defining the first cut functional design of systems
b. Documentation: Documenting and maintaining the functional architecture c. Support and coaching :
i. Explaining the functional contents of the projects to the development teams (link between users and the development team),
ii. The functional coaching and support the Functional Analysts in terms
of business contents and in terms of functional design,
c. Monitoring: The monitoring/control of the functional design (logical data, functionalities and controls) of the applications of their business domain. Validating the deviations needed in the design and controlling they are documented.
d. Standards:
i. The respect of the functional design standards,
ii. Defining best practices and patterns to be applied in their application context and documenting and maintaining them,
e. Improvements: Proposing architecture projects and improvements to the standards,
f. Testing: Helping to define the testing approach of the projects.