Main Responsibilities
The assignment focuses on the corrective and evolutionary maintenance of business reporting applications within the building, construction inspection and technical risk management sector.
The primary objective of the Business Analyst is to produce detailed functional specifications for business applications, based on requirements gathered from business stakeholders and architects, including the resolution of technical and functional deviations.
This includes defining operational business rules in detail and documenting use cases.
The Business Analyst will work closely with business stakeholders, Data Architects, Functional Architects and Development Teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to facilitate meetings and workshops involving a wide range of stakeholders are essential.
Key Activities and Responsibilities
The Business Analyst's responsibilities cover workshop facilitation, detailed business analysis, functional specification writing and functional acceptance testing.
- Workshop Facilitation: Lead workshops with various business stakeholders and Functional Architects to clarify and refine the scope of business-related bug fixes and enhancements.
- Planning: Identify the business analysis activities required and establish an appropriate schedule.
- Stakeholder Identification: Identify relevant stakeholders and ensure their involvement throughout the project.
- Requirements Analysis: Gather and analyse stakeholder requirements, understand business objectives, activities and operational processes.
- Functional Specifications: Write detailed functional specifications to translate business requirements into clear and actionable deliverables.
- Business Domain Knowledge: Develop a thorough understanding of business requirements from a functional perspective. Identify cross-application impacts in collaboration with business stakeholders and architects. Refine and validate deliverables in close collaboration with the IT development team.
- Use Case Definition: Define and document business use cases.
- Functional Acceptance Testing: Prepare and write functional acceptance test plans for the development team (MOE). Execute functional acceptance testing and regression tests. Identify issues and ensure that delivered solutions meet the defined functional requirements.
Expected Deliverables
- Functional Specifications: Use Case Documents and Requirements Documents.
- Functional Acceptance Test Plans.
- Functional Acceptance Test Reports (PV de recette MOE).
Required Skills and Competencies
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a strong ability to work collaboratively and actively listen to stakeholders.
- Strong presentation and knowledge-sharing skills.
- Persuasion and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent writing and documentation skills.
- Proven ability to facilitate workshops and meetings.
- Strong synthesis and summarisation skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Additional Skills (Nice to Have)
- Knowledge of technical data formats and components: XSD, XML and JSON.
- Familiarity with business processes in the building inspection, construction control and technical risk management sector, particularly those involving business reporting solutions.