Vacature

Data Analyst

Antwerpen

Solliciteer

Data analyst with extensive experience in ETL processes, 3NF, data vault and star model development, and SQL.

Also in capturing business requirements, User Acceptance Testing and validating technical developments at the content level.

Tasks

  • Analyze user needs and translate them in coordination with the Solution Architect. Taking into account technical capabilities/limitations in order to ensure the quality of the existing architecture and applicable quality requirements in the delivery of new applications and continuity of existing applications.

Business analysis

  • Collect, challenge and document end-user needs in order to have a standardized, complete and correct representation of business needs that serves as input for the functional analysis.

Activities:

  • Challenging business requirements and translating them into functional requirements.

  • Manage requirements and keep them up-to-date

  • Understand the business processes (and thus the use of the applications in the business) so that new requirements can be translated into workable solutions

  • Translate business requirements to the product teams

  • Perform the impact analysis with input from the entire team

  • Work closely with Product Owner to thoroughly understand our customers' challenges

  • Monitor that the E2E solution provided by different integration points in the application landscape always delivers the desired result for business

Proposal of solution

  • Analyze and compare customer-facing solutions and propose the best possible solution to users in the business in order to validate or adjust the proposed solution if needed.

Activities

  • Prepare a solution proposal.

  • Determine and evaluate the IT benefits and costs (e.g. license cost, effort, ...) of a proposed solution

  • Document the assumptions of the proposed solution

  • Organize workshops/presentations with business

  • Follow up and apply guidelines with impact on ICT in order to guarantee an application that meets the standards (including test follow-up)

Functional Analysis

  • Preparation of the functional analysis according to the agreed standard-den to give the developer a correct and complete input for the development of the new or the modification to the existing ap-plication according to the needs of the business.

Activities

  • Monitoring the functional architecture of the applications (E.g. data model).

  • Elaborate the business requirements taking into account the technical constraints and the existing architecture (in consultation with Solution Architect)

  • Defining and managing the application logical information model

  • Transform business concepts into ICT concepts and vice versa

  • Define the authorization matrix for an application in collaboration with dba, security and business

  • Perform impact analysis with input from the entire team

  • Define non-functional requirements in consultation with the Solution Architect

  • Analyzing test defects/problems/...

Functional design

  • Prepare a functional design in order to define roles and responsibilities within the application landscape and ensure a logical structure in the application landscape architecture

Activities

  • Prepare functional blueprint

  • Draw up functional interface specification

Documentation

  • Creation and maintenance of documentation in order to provide an accurate and reliable picture of the application landscape at all times.

Activities

  • Draw up documentation about the chosen solution

  • Maintaining processes

  • Maintain documentation structure

Knowledge development

  • Build, maintain and exchange relevant evolutions in own domain in order to contribute to own development and professionalization as well as that of colleagues.

Activities

  • Actively participate in teamwork.

  • Supporting colleagues

Quality assurance

  • Facilitate acceptance testing together with the testers and create awareness about quality in order to ensure the quality of the E2E process, both in terms of project, operational, and business operation.

Activities

  • Review test plan.

  • Follow up and validate user tests

  • Respect standards

  • Quality and continuity as a decision criterion

Continuous improvement

  • Identify, propose and implement improvement actions in order to improve the predictability of processes and improve the quality, effectiveness, efficiency and customer friendliness of the product or service provided.

Activities

  • Perform peer reviews for deliverables prepared by direct colleagues

  • Keep system documentation up-to-date and share with customers

  • Analyze, execute, follow up and validate improvement initiatives to automation to promote the continuous delivery pipeline (e.g. automate test scenarios)

  • Experimenting with new tools/frameworks

  • Continuously improve the team's processes

  • Implement cost savings, e.g. through process improvement

Self-organizing teams

  • Apply Lean/agile mindset, principles and skills in order to achieve greater operational excellence, job satisfaction and empowerment of teams.

Activities

  • Create support for the NDM agile safe way of working

  • Include tasks within the product team that are not necessarily aligned with the current role but are within the capabilities and contribute to product quality and team performance

  • Give and receive feedback to become stronger as a team by addressing colleagues about their performance in a correct but professional manner

  • Actively participate in team and/or program ceremonies such as daily scrums, PI planning, demos, retrospectives ...

Risks

  • You are aware of the - daily - risks inherent in the products, activities, processes and systems you collaborate on, you will identify and report these risks you come into contact with during the performance of your job.

Activities

  • Incorporating the principles of the company's security and risk policy in your investigations and developing analyses and solutions

  • Respect company policy on information security and operational risk and follow training courses imposed on risk awareness and management

  • Developing adjustments and solutions as necessary to mitigate risks or to comply with audit recommendations

  • Actively identify risks from your own work and coordinate with your manager or ISRM where necessary.

Ideal Profile

  • Master's degree

  • 3 years experience as a business or functional analyst

  • Can provide a thought framework for a project

  • Organizes own work and coaches other analysts

  • Conducts reasoned discussions with business about functionalities

  • Has in-depth knowledge of all important elements in the assigned domains and provides a framework for thinking about a project

  • Formulates and develops improvement proposals to optimize working methods and procedures after discussion with management

  • Does review of analyses of other domain analysts and mentors new employees