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
- Update of the as-is architecture: You complete and maintain the architecture schemas based on interviews with all stakeholders
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Client relationship / stakeholder management:
- You assist the team manager and project leaders in the customer's relation.
- You establish and maintain working relationships with technology management, business management, program sponsors, key business clients, and infrastructure management.
- These objectives are meant to clarify what is typically expected from an IT Architect, they are not limitative or exhaustive.
Is this you?
- Good knowledge of English, Fluent in Dutch and/or French
- IT (master in Computer Sciences, IT engineer, ...)
- Strong interest for Business Process Analysis
- Good knowledge in modelling applications/processes, functional analysis
- Knowledge of Insurance
- Mastering of MS-Office tools
- Understanding of relevant technologies and development life cycles
- Familiar with integration issues: Cobol, DB2, SQL server, .NET (REST API, Asb), ETL
- Similar function and Solution Analysis
- Deep knowledge and experience of architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture, design patterns, architecture methodologies
- Building and construction functional design of insurance applications parts
- Developing whole picture
- Insurance and/or Banking applications
- Self-starter with a considerable degree of autonomy
- Pragmatic & solution oriented
- Open and analytical mind with a good level of abstraction
- Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills to clearly express and communicate concepts, designs and proposals
- Demonstrated ability to interact with all technical and non-technical members of the organisation
How afarax supports you?
- You benefit from our extensive network
- You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
- We help and support you throughout your project
- We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership
