Senior Functional Analyst
BH-12846
Posted: 05/12/2025
- Competitive
- Belgium, Belgium
- Contract/Freelance
We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Functional Analyst to support a major national infrastructure operator undertaking a multi-year digital transformation of its safety-critical operational procedures.
Logistics
Key Responsibilities
Ideal Candidate
Desirable
Interested in joining a long-term, high-impact digitalisation project within one of Europe’s most critical infrastructure environments?
Apply now - early conversations with the hiring team are already underway.
Logistics
- Position: Freelance Senior Functional Analyst
- Duration: 12-month contract, extendable up to 5 years
- Location: Brussels (Hybrid - approx. 2 days/week on-site)
- Start Date: ASAP
- Day Rate: €(Negotiable & Competitive)
- Languages: French and English
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse, document, and refine functional requirements for a core safety-critical application, including a new wizard-style interface designed to guide operational users.
- Model existing and future-state safety procedures and translate them into structured digital workflows.
- Work closely with developers to ensure functional specifications are fully and accurately implemented.
- Design and execute test scenarios for both new features and regression testing.
- Gather business requirements using interviews, workshops, documentation analysis, and process mapping.
- Produce clear user stories, functional specifications, and user-facing documentation.
- Collaborate with operational teams, safety experts, and technical squads in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Support end-users, ensuring the application effectively enables correct and safe execution of operational processes.
Ideal Candidate
- 10–15 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong experience with requirements gathering, process modelling (UML, BPMN), and writing detailed user stories.
- Demonstrated ability to design and execute test cases and validation scenarios.
- Skilled in translating operational needs into clear, structured functional designs.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable engaging with operational teams, technical teams, and management levels.
- Able to quickly understand highly specific safety or infrastructure-related processes.
- Proactive, rigorous, and capable of working both autonomously and collaboratively within a mature product team.
Desirable
- Experience in safety-critical or infrastructure environments (e.g., rail, utilities, transport).
- Familiarity with railway operations or signalling is highly valued, but not essential.
- Previous work in long-running Agile product teams or environments with high operational impact.
- Ability to produce clear documentation (work instructions, user guides, functional designs).
Interested in joining a long-term, high-impact digitalisation project within one of Europe’s most critical infrastructure environments?
Apply now - early conversations with the hiring team are already underway.
Jonnie Harrison-Wall
Associate Consultant