Funcitonal Architect

Brussels  ‐ Onsite
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Description

We are currently seeking an experienced Functional Architect to begin work on a 12 month project for our client, a leader in the insurance industry based in Brussels.

Candidates MUST speak fluently in French OR Dutch but with a good/basic understanding of the other language. All candidates must have had experience in Administrative or Financial Services environment.

Required Skills:

- Experience with Application Development of Administrative systems in an IT department (as functional designer 5 years or functional architect 1 year)

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

- Mastering of MS-office tools

- Service Oriented architecture & Enterprise Application Integration patterns & challenges
Your role will be to:

- Challenge and structure business requirements

- Design efficient solutions responding to business requirements (functional an non-functional) , the IT capabilities and target visions of the IT systems

- Make impact analysis on existing systems and estimations of the proposed solution

- Describe high level services

- Coach functional designer during the detailed design phase

- The Application Development Functional Architect deals on a daily basis with senior management, peers and junior staff, both internally and externally, with business and professional skills in Information Technology.
Requirements & Solution definition

- You are responsible of gathering & consolidating the business requirements: this includes not only documenting & analysing, but also negotiating, prioritizing, alternatives proposals, definition & organization of the approach for collecting & consolidating the requirements to lead to a consistent & reliable solution.

- You have the ability to analyse, define, design and propose solutions to business problems at the highest level of complexity or in areas calling for significantly innovative approaches.

- The solution proposed takes into account not only the business requirements, but also the application development standards & the operational constraints & risks.

- Analysis & Design:

- During development of the target architecture, you compare application options according to function, technology and cost, make a recommendation and develop potential migration paths to the target state model

- You integrate the relevant stakeholders (business / domain experts / …) in the analysis & design process to ensure knowledge transfer & coaching.
Realization:

- During the realization phase of applications, you follow up the compliance of architecture with standards and support architecture responsibilities as part of the standard project lifecycle

- You are responsible of the functional coherence of the domains you intervened: determination,

- You prepare (test scenarios, test cases) & follow execution of system testing (before qualification)
Client relationship / Stakeholder management

- You assist the development responsible in the customer's relation.

- You establish and maintain working relationships with technology management, business management, program sponsors, key business clients, and infrastructure management
Architecture & Application Lifecycle Management

- Acting as Functional Architect by our client, you deploy a global vision of our functional architecture in order to improve the follow and the global implementation of our User's Requirements.

- You define current and target state application architecture aligned with requirements of the various business and technology initiatives, insuring the necessary coherence in applications architecture.

- You improve and maintain the processes, the tools used to realize our functional architecture analysis.

If this is the opportunity for you, please do get in contact with us.
Start date
01/2015
Duration
12 Months
From
Proteus Europe
Published at
12.12.2014
Project ID:
822783
Contract type
Freelance
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