Functional Analyst

Dates: 2026-10-01 — 2026-12-31

Arrangements: Full time; hybrid. Remote work is possible after 2 weeks of services within the organization.

CAPAC-HVW operates a complex technology environment combining a historical application landscape with modern components. The organization is structurally transforming its IT landscape through architecture modernization, technical-debt reduction and Cloud adoption. Regulatory compliance, particularly NIS2, is an important part of this transformation. The applications support critical unemployment-regulation processes including eligibility, payments, debt management, and financial and accounting processing.

The Functional-Technical Analyst will carry out functional analyses with a technical dimension for business projects and support development teams. The consultant will advise on integrations, data models, performance and scalability while helping teams adopt technologies and architectural patterns. The role also includes initiating or validating proofs of concept, leading design reviews and ensuring compliance with architecture standards and good practices. Maintaining coherence between legacy components and newer Cloud/hybrid architectures is a central objective.

The consultant will work across business, development, security and infrastructure teams and make technical choices understandable to diverse stakeholders. The role contributes to collective decision-making, team capability development and the resolution of business problems. It also translates enterprise directions into concrete technical models and designs aligned, performant and maintainable application and data architectures. Security by design, NIS2 implementation, secure coding, supervision and auditability are integral to the assignment.

Responsibilities

Perform functional technical analyses

Guide technology pattern adoption

Initiate validate Proof-of-Concepts

Improve maintainability security decoupling

Document architecture and decisions

Must Have

Confirmed functional analysis

Data security expertise

Communication interpersonal skills

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

• Coordinate business development teams
• Explain technical choices clearly
• Develop team skills
• Analyze resolve business problems
• Ensure legacy modern coherence
• Translate enterprise technical orientations
• Align decisions business objectives
• Integrate security by design
• Translate NIS2 technical measures
• Promote secure coding practices
• Confirmed-level experience as a Functional Analyst.
• Confirmed-level communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical and synthesis capabilities.
• Confirmed-level experience within a federal public service.
• Active knowledge of Dutch.
• Active knowledge of English.
• Active knowledge of French.

Technical skills

• Confirmed technical data skills covering modelling, data management, integration and security.
• Confirmed knowledge of relational databases, including MySQL, and data modelling.
• Confirmed expertise in modern Java.
• Confirmed expertise in Spring.
• Confirmed expertise in microservices architectures.
• Confirmed expertise in API-driven architectures.
• Confirmed expertise in event-driven architectures.

Tools

• Confirmed in-depth knowledge of Atlassian/Jira.