IT Business Analyst

IT Business/Functional Analyst
Job location: Brussels
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months with extension
Languages: English and French OR Ducth (fluent)

Our client is a leader in the international telecommunication sector. His mission is to connect the world by facilitating secure mobiles communication.

General Tasks
*Assists in defining the IT strategy ensuring alignment with the business strategy and divisional objectives and assists to the definition of the roadmaps to achieve the strategy. Analysing various new needs coming from the user community.
*Discussing and clarifying the user requirements together with (various) users. Obtaining alignment across the different stakeholders of a suite of IT systems is part of this process. Translate these requirements towards system requirements. This includes:
*Defining and agreeing upon the functional application architecture to satisfy those needs with the IT software development teams and the users.
*Defining a conceptual data model, which determines how to organise and store information generated by the user or system.
*Plans, arranges and controls meetings, workshops and relations with client/user staff in order to gather requirements and to investigate systems. Is able to find compromises between different user views to ensure congruence in requirements.
*Supports the different phases and intervening parties of a project (development, scope & change management, ITT/UAT test phases, ) in order to assist to/ensure the optimal construction of IT projects. Assists the process managers in defining the business processes around the solution to implement.

Specific mission
*Analyst within the Mobile Data domain (signalling, messaging and Mobile IP).
*Will be assigned to the MVNE program.

Profile
*Strong analytical mind
*Good analysis and modelling skills
*Good oral and written communicator and negotiator. Able to organise & lead workshops with people with different backgrounds/profiles involved in the requirements gathering and overall design process.
*Good knowledge of English and French/Dutch
Specific experience required or recommended

*REQUIRED:
oEffective experience as IT business analyst
oEffective experience as functional analyst
oGood knowledge of MVNO, MVNE and M2M business
oGood knowledge of service orchestration and billing flows
oGood knowledge of OCS, PCRF and related interfaces towards core network (eg Gx, Gy )

*RECOMMENDED:
oOverall view of the mobile core network and understanding of call-flows (voice, SMS, data).
oGood knowledge on mobile core components of 2G, 3G, LTE (P-GW/GGSN, HSS/HLR, PCRF) networks.
o(International) Wholesale Telecom Business