Freelance Functionele Analist (medior)

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Key Responsibilities

Specification & Documentation

• Produce clear functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria and business rules.
• Document story maps and user stories and acceptance criteria aligned with ADRs and architectural decisions based on the functional specifications.
• Define functional domain contracts: workflows, state machines, validation rules.
• Ensure specifications are peer-reviewed and approved before handoff to development.
• Document data flows, edge cases, and compliance-relevant behavior (legal basis, audit trails, data-subject rights).
• Manage information and canonical data models in cooperation with data architects and stewards.
• Define and manage OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specifications (API-first principles).

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with business stakeholders, domain experts, architects, and development teams to validate requirements in Dutch/English or French/English.
• Communicate complex domain concepts to technical squads in English.
• Resolve functional requirement clarification questions decisively so delivery is not blocked.
• Assist QA teams with designing test plans based on product features.

Backlog & Delivery Support

• Refine and prioritize the backlog together with the Lead Analyst, Product Owner, and Tech Leads.
• Support developers and testers during implementation and clarify acceptance criteria.
• Validate delivered functionality against specifications.

Required Skills

These skills are essential for the senior profile. We expect depth and independent, expert-level mastery across all of them.

• Requirements elicitation & functional decomposition: independently break down complex notarial and legal procedures into clear, testable specifications.
• Functional domain modelling: expert modelling of functional domain behavior against the platform’s standard formality contract, shared base types and state machines, treating each formality as a discrete, contract-driven service.
• Specification craft: write unambiguous, directly implementable user stories, acceptance criteria and business rules, and set the quality bar for the squads.
• API-contract fluency: confidently read and reason about REST API contracts (OpenAPI) and the underlying data models.
• Cross-domain dependency analysis: own the mapping of dependencies across the Party and Asset domains, between bounded contexts, and towards the external authentic sources the formalities connect to.
• Facilitation & decision-making: facilitate consensus among architects, product and development, and resolve functional ambiguity decisively so delivery is never blocked.
• Review & mentoring: peer-review and sign off other analysts’ specifications before handoff, and coach medior analysts to the same standard.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years as a Functional Analyst or Business Analyst in software delivery, ideally in complex multi-team environments, with several years in a senior or lead analyst capacity.
• Strong experience in requirements elicitation and documentation; comfortable writing clear, testable specifications.
• Proven ability to translate regulated or legal/financial business processes into implementable specifications.
• Strong command of user stories, acceptance criteria, business-rule modelling and process mapping.
• Comfortable reading and reasoning about REST API contracts (OpenAPI) and data models.
• Experience in multi-stakeholder environments: managing conflicting priorities and facilitating consensus.
• Languages: Dutch + English or French + English (hard requirement).
• Ability to work autonomously with a delivery focus in a regulated, mission-critical environment.