Functional Consultant

Sourceful ICT; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

B2B contract

Professional development

People-centric culture

Regular company events

Job summary

Sourceful is seeking a Functional Consultant to bridge business needs with technology in application development and IT product projects. You will gather requirements, translate them into functional specs, and maintain the backlog in Jira, working with business reps, developers, and UX/UI specialists in a remote Polish setting.

You will lead workshops, refine requirements, and verify delivered solutions in QA, ensuring alignment with acceptance criteria and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience turning business needs into functional requirements.
• Experience with stakeholders, developers, testers, and designers.
• Ability to lead workshops and clarification sessions.
• Ability to create process maps and docs.
• Experience with backlog creation including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Gather and refine business requirements with stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into functional specifications.
• Identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and inconsistencies.
• Lead workshops and clarification sessions.
• Maintain the backlog in Jira or similar tools.
• Develop project and process documentation for software development and release.
• Create initial drafts and mockups for proposed solutions.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with business goals.
• Coordinate with UX/UI and other teams as needed.
• Support sprint planning and backlog prioritization.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Business analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Backlog management

Requirements tracing

Process mapping

Test coordination

Communication

English communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

We are looking for a Functional Consultant who will be responsible for bridging business needs with technology solutions in application development and IT product projects. This role requires independence and proactivity, strong analytical skills, and the ability to effectively collaborate with business representatives, development teams, UX/UI specialists, and other project stakeholders.

The person in this role will be responsible for gathering and organizing business requirements, transforming them into functional requirements, preparing analytical and process-related materials, and translating them into a project backlog with precise task descriptions and acceptance criteria. An important part of the role will also be verifying delivered solutions in the QA environment and supporting both the team and the business in making the best product and project decisions.

What you will do:

• Gather, analyze, and refine business requirements in cooperation with business representatives and the development team.

• Translate business requirements into clear and complete functional requirements.

• Identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and inconsistencies in requirements.

• Lead workshops, refinement sessions, discovery meetings, and clarification sessions with stakeholders.

• Facilitate project meetings related to analysis, planning, and scope alignment.

• Prepare process maps and descriptions of business flows to explain application logic and behavior.

• Build and maintain the backlog in Jira or similar tools, including:

• Prepare the necessary project and process documentation related to software development and release activities, including but not limited to:

• Prepare initial drafts, screen concepts, or proposed application solutions and present them to the business.

• Align proposed solutions with the business and obtain acceptance.

• Determine whether UX/UI Designer involvement is required and collaborate with UX/UI on preparing appropriate mockups or designs.

• Support the team in selecting the best solution from a business, functional, and operational perspective.

• Test implemented functionalities in the Quality/QA environment to confirm compliance with requirements.

• Verify the completeness and quality of delivered items before business presentations or release to subsequent environments.

• Cooperate with other teams involved in the project to define the scope of their engagement, dependencies, and expected contribution to ongoing work.

• Support sprint planning, work scope planning, and backlog prioritization based on historical data, estimates, and team capacity.

What you will bring:

• Experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements and translating them into functional requirements.

• Experience working with business stakeholders, developers, testers, and UX/UI designers.

• Ability to lead workshops, analytical meetings, and clarification sessions.

• Ability to prepare process maps, flow diagrams, and functional and process documentation.

• Experience in creating backlogs, user stories, tasks, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.

• Ability to prepare and present solution concepts to business stakeholders.

• Experience in functional testing and validating solutions in QA environments.

• Understanding of release management processes and production deployment activities.

• Very good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Very good command of English, both spoken and written.

What we offer:

• Fully remote work

• Flexibility of a B2B contract

• Professional development opportunities

• People-centric culture

• Regular company events

• Details: