You will join a large-scale public sector digital organization supporting strategic IT programs for government institutions. These programs focus on complex, long-running applications that serve critical public services and require a high level of functional rigor, governance, and stakeholder alignment. You will work in an Agile delivery environment where functional analysis plays a central role in translating policy, business needs, and regulatory constraints into robust, scalable digital solutions.
Role Description
As a Lead Functional Analyst, you take ownership of the functional analysis across complex and strategic application landscapes.
You coordinate and steer analysis activities, guiding stakeholders in making clear decisions on scope, priorities, and functional constraints.
You translate complex business needs into structured, consistent, and hierarchical requirement models that are understandable and actionable.
You analyze and model complex application ecosystems to make them transparent for both business and technical stakeholders.
You ensure consistency and coherence across solutions, data models, and business models, with a strong focus on reuse and synergies.
You identify and manage dependencies between application components and across teams, ensuring end-to-end alignment.
You actively support the project manager by helping coordinate team activities, planning, risks, and priorities within Agile delivery.
You act as a functional reference point for architects and developers, answering questions and guiding functional design decisions.
You define and oversee testing strategies for complex systems, ensuring sufficient coverage, quality, and validation of results.
You coach and mentor other analysts, contribute to team development, and support onboarding of new colleagues.
What are we looking for?
You have at least 5 years of proven experience as a senior or lead functional analyst in complex IT environments.
You have strong experience working in Agile/Scrum teams on large-scale applications.
You have solid experience with business analysis, requirement elicitation, and functional modeling techniques.
You are comfortable working with complex application landscapes and understanding interdependencies.
You have a good functional understanding of web-based back-end and front-end technologies (e.g. services, XML, HTML/CSS).
You have a solid general understanding of IT infrastructure and application architecture.
You are fluent in Dutch at native level, both spoken and written, and produce all analyses in Dutch.
What do we offer?
Location: Brussels (hybrid)
Start date: As soon as possible
End date: 31 December 2026
Duration: 12 months (extension possible)
Contract type: Freelance or Permanent
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