Technical Business Analyst required for public sector client located in Brussels.
EU citizens only for the working location requirement.
Technical Business Analyst
Location: 2 days onsite 3 days remote
Contract type: 6 months + extensions (long-term engagement)
Location: Brussels
Language: english & french or dutch
Brussels - 550 EUR / day
Key responsibilities
Technical & functional analysis:
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable technical specifications.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects to align project scope with the overall system architecture.
- Define and validate REST API specifications in accordance with Open API standards and Back End service design.
- Support database modeling efforts, ensuring alignment between data schema and business logic.
Project coordination & Agile participation:
- Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
- Liaise with Project Managers and Service Owners to ensure timely delivery and alignment with strategic goals.
- Provide impact analysis and feasibility assessments for new features, change requests, or enhancements.
Documentation & quality assurance:
- Create and maintain detailed functional and technical documentation (Jira, Confluence), including process flows, user stories, test cases, and
- release notes.
- Support test planning by defining test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with QA teams to ensure thorough validation of application functionality.
Security & compliance awareness:
- Ensure security best practices are Embedded in requirements (eg, secure access via OAuth2, JWT, LDAP, RBAC).
- Participate in the review of TLS life cycle and key management practices from a compliance and risk perspective.
Collaboration across teams:
- Act as the key liaison between development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure end-to-end solution quality.
- Support front-end-back-end integration efforts by identifying, analysing, and resolving functional mismatches.
- Coordinate with platform and observability teams to ensure appropriate logging, monitoring, and alerting (eg, ELK Stack, Zabbix).
Required qualifications
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a Technical Business Analyst or Functional Analyst role within complex Back End systems.
- Solid understanding of RESTful architecture, MicroServices, and Back End service flows.
- Familiarity with Java/Spring Boot systems, with the ability to analyze logs and architecture at a high level.
- Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and Jenkins.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams in large-scale IT environments.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with OpenAPI, API gateways, and enterprise-grade authentication methods.
- Understanding of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, OpenShift).
- Prior work with observability stacks such as ELK and Zabbix.
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and clean architecture principles.
