IS Functional Designer - Dutch, French

The candidate will work with Belgiums leading insurance firm with its Information Systems. This group is responsible for all software developments of insurance related applications. The applications are developed based on a Cobol/DB2 Back Office, with various technologies used on the visual, printing and communication side.

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 18 months

Location: Belgium, Brussels

(Depending on project evolution, extension is possible)

Languages required: English, and/or French and Dutch

The candidate will work in the Individual Life Division Mainframe Cobol/DB2 section. He/She will be responsible the functional design of projects of size between 50 mds up to 500 mds. The candidate will be also responsible for the technical lead of the implementation of these projects.

This includes (but not exclusively):

-Techno-functional design of the deliverables within a functional domain
- SWOT analysis and implementation of improvements of the functional domain in scope
- Scoping, estimation, planning and follow-up of the design and implementation of projects impacting the domain
- Communication & synchronization with the architects and project leaders
- Collaboration with the teams & the team leaders of other functional domains that are impacted or involved in the project.
- Adequate communication & progress reporting to the IT management.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

MANDATORY

-Experience with Application Development of Administrative systems in an IT department
- Able to capture main topics in discussions with technical IT people
- Mastering of MS Office tools
- Strong understanding of Source code Cobol and SQL

PREFERABLE

- Web based Client Server systems with MF Back End (Cobol/DB2)
- Batch process experience
- Cobol/DB2 programming experience

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

- Years

MANDATORY

-Significant experience as Functional Analyst, in direct contact with Business stakeholders.
- Experience with analysis methodologies
- Think in term of services
- Make the bridge between business, technical and functional worlds

PREFERABLE

- Project leading principles/experience - Prince2 methodology
- Test management principles (TMAP)
- Knowledge of technical analysis

FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION call, or e-mail.