Afarax is looking for a freelance Functional Architect. We need you! Our client in the insurance sector is looking for a Functional Architect to join their team. Objective of the job
1. Update of the as is architecture: You complete and maintain the architecture schemas based on interviews with all stakeholders
2. Architecture & application lifecycle management:
* You maintain a high level vision of our functional and application architecture.
* You define current and target state application architecture aligned with requirements of the various business and technology initiatives, ensuring the necessary coherence in applications architecture.
* You improve and maintain the processes, the tools used to realize our functional architecture analysis.
3. Requirements & solution definition:
* On some projects, you are responsible for 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 solutions you propose take into account not only the business requirements, but also the application development standards & the operational constraints & risks.
4. 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 understand the functional and technical architecture.
* You realize the functional architecture analysis and estimate the implementation cost for requirements.
* You hand over the functional architecture analysis to the functional and technical analysts and deliver further support if necessary.
* You integrate the relevant stakeholders (business / domain experts / ) in the analysis & design process to ensure knowledge transfer & coaching.
5. 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 for the functional coherence of your domains: determination, implementation and follow up of functional concepts, integration of business needs in existing software solutions.
* You advise the different actors during the implementation phasing and bring a functional coaching to the functional development points of contact.
6. Client relationship / stakeholder management: