Technisch Functioneel Analist

A. Context / Project Background
We are looking for a Senior Technical Functional Analyst to contribute to the optimisation and evolution
of a large-scale, business-critical government data integration platform.
The consultant will operate between architecture and development, translating functional and architectural
requirements into detailed technical specifications. The environment includes synchronous APIs,
asynchronous file transfers, event-driven architecture, data integration, testing, migration, and operational
support.
B. Main Responsibilities
Requirements Analysis & Technical Specification
• Analyse and refine functional and architectural requirements.
• Translate business and architectural requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Work closely with architects, Product Owners, developers, testers, and external partners.
• Ensure technical requirements are clear, consistent, and implementation-ready.
• Maintain alignment between architectural vision and final implementation.
API & Integration Analysis
• Analyse and specify synchronous SOAP and REST web services.
• Define requirements concerning data models, error handling, and API versioning.
• Interpret and prepare XML and Swagger specifications.
• Support integration design within the MAGDA platform.
• Translate integration requirements into clear development specifications.
Event-Driven & Asynchronous Integration
• Contribute to Kafka-based event architecture.
• Define requirements around Kafka topics, partitioning, schema evolution, and event-driven
principles.
• Analyse and specify FTP/SFTP-based data transfers.
• Define requirements for batch-processing solutions.
• Support technically complex data integration scenarios.

Testing & Quality
• Define testable technical requirements.
• Contribute to test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Support test strategy definition.
• Ensure requirements can be validated from the beginning of development.
• Support troubleshooting and technical issue resolution.
Operational & Migration Support
• Follow up bug tickets and coordinate their resolution.
• Support rollout and clean-up activities related to migration projects.
• Document technical decisions and agreements.
• Maintain traceability of requirements, decisions, and action points.

C. Required Skills & Expertise
Must Have
• 5+ years as a Functional Analyst working with large business-critical applications
• 5+ years of requirements analysis and translation into technical specifications
• 5+ years of SOAP and REST services
• Ability to interpret and prepare XML and Swagger files
• 5 years of asynchronous data file transfer experience using FTP, SFTP, and batch processing
• Experience working in relevant technical environments
• Dutch at CEFR C2
• Signed NDA
Important submission requirement: The required five years of FTP, SFTP, and batch-processing
experience must be demonstrated through concrete cases that collectively evidence at least five
years of relevant experience.
Should Have
• 3+ years of token-based authorisation
• 3+ years with Oracle or EDB PostgreSQL
• 1+ year of test strategy experience
• 3+ years with Confluence, Jira, SoapUI/LoadUI, and Postman
• Requirements analysis and design concepts for OO, multi-tier, web-enabled, and/or UML
environments
• Data and process modelling techniques and tools
Nice to Have
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
• Jaeger tracing
• CI/CD
• Linked Data / OSLO
• Microsoft Azure
• XSLT and XML data transformations
• Kafka and event-driven architecture
• Kafka topic design, partitioning, and schema evolution