Contracts IT - Senior Technical Analyst

• A major Belgian public-sector organisation is seeking Senior Technical Analysts to support large-scale digitalisation and application delivery programmes within a complex, highly regulated environment.
• This is a senior, hands-on role for experienced professionals who can translate business needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with enterprise architecture standards. You will work closely with Agile delivery teams, including architects, developers, testers, service managers, and business stakeholders.
• This role requires autonomy, strong technical judgement, and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively., * Technical & functional analysis

• Analyse, validate, and challenge business requirements
• Translate business needs into clear functional and technical analyses
• Produce sprint-ready user stories and tickets within a 3-week sprint cycle
• Defend and clarify analysis during Agile refinement and delivery ceremonies

• Delivery alignment

• Ensure alignment between business expectations and technical feasibility
• Enable developers and testers through clear, unambiguous specifications
• Define functional and technical acceptance criteria

• Documentation

• Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation for development and testing teams
• Ensure compliance with interface specifications and enterprise architecture standards

• Support & troubleshooting

• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities
• Assist with production incidents and issue resolution
• Analyse root causes and propose pragmatic, effective solutions

• Leadership & coordination

• Coach and support junior analysts when required
• Potentially assume coordination or project-level responsibilities depending on project needs

5 years experience English and (French or Dutch), * Professional experience

• Minimum 10 years' proven experience as a Technical Analyst
• Demonstrated experience in complex, enterprise-scale environments

• Analysis & modelling

• Business process modelling
• UML and BPMN
• Functional and technical analysis
• Ability to clearly document current-state and target-state processes

• Architecture & design

• Sequence diagrams
• Synchronous and asynchronous architectures
• API and interface contracts (REST / SOAP)
• Data modelling and strong SQL querying capabilities

• Tooling

• Jira, Confluence
• GIT
• Postman, SoapUI
• SQL clients
• Browser developer tools
• Modelling and design tools (UML, sequence, data models)

• Agile delivery

• Proven experience in Agile / Scrum environments
• Ability to estimate effort collaboratively
• Solid understanding of testing principles and methodologies

• Soft skills & mindset

• Proactive and quality-focused approach
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable challenging requirements and proposing alternatives
• Team-oriented with leadership and mentoring capability
• Pragmatic, solution-driven mindset

• Language requirements

• Native French or Dutch
• Good understanding of the second national language
• English at working proficiency

• Nice to have: Experience working in a MicroServices-based architecture

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