Functional Designer Financial (Brussels)

Je functie: Context of the mission
Financial systems are a central part of our application portfolio. Managing premiums, recovery and communication with banking systems, high availability and quality are important key values. Our financial system is connected to all contract and claims management systems.

Objective of the job
Your mission as Functional Designer:
° You will analyse the business needs and create detailed and precise functional analyses.
° You will establish sustainable and easy to maintain solutions.
° You will regularly suggest improvement to development processes as well as for existing systems.
° You will have a critical view on existing solutions or those proposed by the architecture.
° You provide your help, in cooperation with the Project manager, in planning preparation and follow up.
° You prepare assume and follow-up the tests.
° You follow and coach the technical analysts and the programmers.
° You stay informed on new technologies.

Mission period
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
(Depending on project evolution, extension is possible)

Localisation
Brussels centre.
Je profiel: Required knowledge / Experience
Education
Bachelor, master in Information systems, computer science or a relevant domain (or equivalent through experience)

Languages Requirement
Dutch and French, one fluent and good understanding of the other one.
English : Good

Personal Skills
Mandatory
° Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team
° Strong active listening skills
° Good communication skills
° Result oriented with attention for quality and details
° Structured and pro-active
° Dynamic, analytic, synthetic
° Quick learner
° Client Friendly

Business experience required
Mandatory
° Insurance or banking applications

Preferable
° Group Insurance
° Non-Life insurance

Technical experience required
Mandatory
° Relational database design techniques
° Software development management

Preferable
° Cobol development on mainframe with DB2 Mainframe
° Integration of different technologies (Wintel, Cobol)
° Knowledge of ESB (Enterprise service bus) principles.
° SOA (service oriented architecture)

Functional experience required
Mandatory
° Significant experience as Functional Analyst, ideally in large company.
Preferable
° Some experience in project management
° Experience and knowledge of technical analysis
° Methodology applicable for Business, Process and Functional Analysis