Senior Business Functional Analyst

Keystone Solutions; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Keystone Solutions is seeking a Senior Business/Functional Analyst for a consultancy mission at a client site to help lay the foundations for a multilingual legal and regulatory knowledge base. You will bridge business needs and IT solutions, gathering requirements and writing specifications guiding AI-assisted development with a human review process.

You will work in a senior startup team, coordinating workshops, modeling processes, and maintaining the product backlog.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Business/Functional Analyst in complex IT and data environments.
• Strong requirements engineering and specification writing with acceptance criteria (Volere/Robertson).
• Familiarity with BPMN, UML, and information modeling.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops with content managers, business experts, and key users.
• Map current processes: writing, translation, validation, publication, and depublication.
• Establish a functional inventory of the existing application: search, taxonomy, subscriptions, user profiles.
• Gather and prioritize requirements (MoSCoW) and manage and refine the product backlog.
• Define personas and user journeys (internal collaborator, external professional, citizen, API partner, AI tools).
• Specify the document classification model (public, internal, restricted, embargo) and formalize publication rules with the business.
• Write intention specifications that guide an AI-assisted development pipeline, with clear acceptance criteria.
• Functionally validate increments and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Bridge the gap between business and IT, diving into data (SQL) to support hypotheses.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Agile methodologies

Process modelling (BPMN/UML)

Data analysis

SQL

Power BI

Python

Open API

Archimate

TOGAF

Tools

Archimate

TOGAF

UML

Job description

Mission Overview:

Keystone Solutions is seeking a Senior Business/Functional Analyst for a consultancy mission at a client site. In this role, you will be part of a senior startup team laying the foundations for a comprehensive multilingual legal and regulatory knowledge base. This position represents an opportunity to work on dynamic projects that enhance public service through modern digital solutions.

Your Role:

As an experienced and motivated Senior Business/Functional Analyst, you will act as a bridge between business needs and IT solutions. You will gather requirements, model information, and write specifications that guide AI-assisted development, ensuring a systematic human review process. This role will be carried out under Keystone Solutions' consultancy model.

Main Responsibilities:

• Facilitate workshops with content managers, business experts, and key users (both internal and external).


• Map current processes: writing, translation, validation, publication, and depublication.


• Establish a functional inventory of the existing application: search, taxonomy, subscriptions, user profiles.


• Gather and prioritize requirements (MoSCoW) and manage and refine the product backlog.


• Define personas and user journeys (internal collaborator, external professional, citizen, API partner, AI tools).


• Specify the document classification model (public, internal, restricted, embargo) and formalize publication rules with the business.


• Write intention specifications that guide an AI-assisted development pipeline, with clear acceptance criteria.


• Functionally validate increments and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT).


• Bridge the gap between business and IT, diving into data (SQL) to support hypotheses.

Your Profile:

You should have extensive experience as a Business/Functional Analyst in complex IT and data environments. Key qualifications include:

• Strong requirements engineering and specification writing skills with acceptance criteria (e.g., Volere/Robertson, use cases, Gherkin).


• Comfortable with Agile methodologies: epics, user stories, story maps, backlog management.


• Proficient in process and information modeling: BPMN, UML, conceptual/information models.


• Data-oriented: good knowledge of SQL and affinity for data analysis and visualization (Power BI, Python).


• Experience in data modeling and/or data governance is a significant asset.


• Familiarity with API programs and integration patterns (event-driven, pub/sub) is a plus.


• Familiarity with enterprise architecture notations (Archimate, TOGAF) is a plus.


• Languages: Dutch (native or equivalent), good knowledge of French and English.


• Motivated, proactive, and results-oriented, with a keen sense of both the big picture and the details in data.

Mandatory Skills:

• Requirements engineering & specifications with acceptance criteria (Volere/Robertson)


• Business/Functional Analysis


• + skills listed in the 'Skills' section

Duration:

As soon as possible - 31/12/2027 15 months (full time)

Skills required:

• Agile - Level: Expert - Most recent: Any time


• Archimate - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time


• Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) - Level: Expert - Most recent: Any time


• Data Governance - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time


• Open API - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time


• Power BI - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time


• Python - Level: Nice to have - Most recent: Any time


• SQL - Level: Confirmed - Most recent: Any time

Language requirements:

Dutch or French
Level Native
English
Level Active knowledge