Dates: 2026-12-16 — 2027-12-16
Arrangements: Full-time, 100%. Telework may be agreed with the Fluvius team leader; it is not an enforceable right and no frequency is guaranteed. Flexibility is required for occasional travel to other Fluvius sites and temporarily increased on-site attendance.
Fluvius seeks a medior Functional Analyst in Melle to bridge business and IT in public lighting. The assignment supports digitalisation and innovation across public, site, architectural and monument lighting. Connected lighting, smart cities, citizen participation, energy efficiency, CO2 reduction and sustainable lighting are driving new expectations.
You translate complex business questions and cross-domain needs into functional requirements and IT solutions. You support project definitions, roadmaps, product backlogs and needs prioritisation. Collaboration spans investment works, operations, asset management, customer service, purchasing/logistics and IT. You also support implementation, embedding, optimisation, small infrastructure realisations and application maintenance.
The preferred assignment runs from 16 December 2026 to 16 December 2027, full-time at 100%, with 220 indicative days and a 12-month extension period. Telework is possible by agreement with the team leader, alongside flexibility for site visits and increased on-site presence. Selection is weighted 50% quality and 50% price. The profile requires three years of functional analysis and energy-sector experience, five years of Agile and Jira/Confluence experience, strong coding knowledge and Dutch C2.
Top Reasons to Apply
Public lighting innovation
Smart city developments
Cross-functional stakeholder collaboration
Sustainable lighting solutions
Digitalisation and optimisation
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across investment works, operations, asset management, customer service, purchasing/logistics and IT, building a strong internal network.
- Translate complex business questions and cross-domain needs into clear functional requirements and IT solutions.
- Support project definitions, roadmaps and product backlogs, contributing actively to needs prioritisation.
- Develop functional analyses at a level enabling efficient implementation by development teams.
- Balance functionality, usability, maintainability, scalability and cost efficiency in proposed solutions.
- Build stakeholder support and constructive relationships with business analysts, users, architects, developers and other parties.
- Contribute to successful implementation, embedding and optimisation of project results within the organisation.
- Perform KIR (Kleine Infrastructurele Realisations, small infrastructure realisations) and maintenance activities within the public-lighting application landscape.
Must Have
- Functional analysis experience
- Strong application development knowledge
- Functional testing experience
- Jira and Confluence
- Demonstrate programming language knowledge
- Dutch CEFR C2
Nice to Have
- Public lighting experience
- Dutch CEFR C2
Additional Responsibilities
- Apply project-management and process-analysis methods and techniques, including Agile/Scrum, process modelling and continuous improvement.
- Expand knowledge of asset-management, grid-operation, customer-interaction and supply-chain processes, supporting systems, organisation and company culture.
- Functional analysis experience: 3 years, medior.
- Energy-sector experience: 3 years, medior.
- Dutch at European CEFR level C2.
- Experience in the public-lighting domain.
- Dutch at European CEFR level C2, repeated as Should have; the mandatory listing also applies.
- Combine a helicopter view with operational pragmatism.
- Be eager to learn, entrepreneurial and analytical.
- Have a conceptual mindset and seek maximum synergy.
- Keep the interests of customers, specifically local authorities, central.
- Be flexible about occasional travel to other Fluvius sites and temporarily increased on-site attendance.
- Provide the Right to Represent document to verify the right to present the candidate.
Technical skills
- Agile project experience: 5 years, senior.
- Application development experience with strong code knowledge: 3 years, medior.
- Functional testing experience: 3 years, medior.
- At a possible interview, convincingly demonstrate programming-language knowledge, including reading code and identifying bugs.
- Experience with a project methodology.
- UML modelling experience: 3 years, medior.
- SOA experience.
Tools
- Demonstrable Jira and Confluence knowledge and experience: 5 years, senior.