Agile Functional Analyst

For its development team working on in-house developed products, Fluxys is actively looking for an functional analyst with an affinity for numerical optimizationand anIT development background,who will be able to:

-Blend in with an agile software development team, developing business products in short development cycles (using scrum)
-Understand and model business requirements related to gas flow management processes (specifically nomination and flow planning),while respecting the existing architecture and systems.
-Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational specifications,leveragingmodeling tools and adhering to the Fluxys methodology.
-Assist the developers in producing high quality products, based on defined specifications
-Contribute tothe definition of enhancementsfor applications and team operations.
-Participatein estimating and prioritizing development activities required to address the business requirements
-Participate in support interventions on (critical) production systems
-Help to produce test scenarios for system and integration testing
-Assist the testing expert in executing acceptance tests with end users

Responsibilities:
-Business requirements are analyzed, understood and documented in Epics and User Stories
-Writing effective user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team
-Analyze existing documentation and gather information from within the Project Team and from the business
-Take initiatives for meetings with the business and be responsible for the follow up.
-Document business processes using activity diagrams, information models and sequence diagrams.
-Produce functional system specifications compliant to the Fluxys methodology standards, CBD oriented (Component Based Development)
-Produce business component interface specificationscompliant to the Fluxys methodology standards(CBD)
-Producelistening actively to their needs, asking the right questions and interpreting the answers accurately
-ability to communicate the semantics of formal and precise models to users in a digestible form
-ability to communicate the details of the specifications to developers
-Goal directed attitude
-Ability to work relatively independently and proactively

following the priorities and timing of the project plan, under supervision of the project leader.
-Ability to detect priority conflicts, be able to advise on possible options and discuss solution with stakeholders
-Analytical skills allowing rapid learning of various and new businesses or technical matters in the context of multi products maintenance.
-Ability to work in a structured way following the procedures of the project (check in, check-out, time sheet reporting, punctuality)
-Ability to work according to rules, standards and guidelines defined in the architecture
-Good balance between methodological approach and respect for practical constraints.
-Ability to communicate realistic predictions about the analysis work
-Ability to communicate in Dutch (spoken) or French (spoken) and English (written).
-Ability to adapt to the evolving Fluxys set of methods and tools.
-Customer, solution and improvement minded
-Team player