Afarax is looking for a freelance Functional Architect. Our client in the insurance sector is looking for a Functional Architect to join their team.
Update of the as-is architecture: You complete and maintain the architecture schemas based on interviews with all stakeholders
Architecture & application lifecycle management:
You maintain a high-level vision of our functional and application architecture.
You define current and target state application architecture aligned with requirements of the various business and technology initiatives, ensuring the necessary coherence in applications architecture.
You improve and maintain the processes, the tools used to realize our functional architecture analysis.
On some projects, you are responsible for gathering & consolidating the business requirements: this includes not only documenting & analysing, but also negotiating, prioritizing, alternatives proposals, definition & organization of the approach for collecting & consolidating the requirements to lead to a consistent & reliable solution.
You have the ability to analyse, define, design and propose solutions to business problems at the highest level of complexity or in areas calling for significantly innovative approaches.
The solutions you propose take into account not only the business requirements, but also the application development standards & the operational constraints & risks.
Analysis & design:
During development of the target architecture, you compare application options according to function, technology and cost, make a recommendation and develop potential migration paths to the target state model.
You understand the functional and technical architecture.
You realize the functional architecture analysis and estimate the implementation cost for requirements.
You hand over the functional architecture analysis to the functional and technical analysts and deliver further support if necessary.
in the analysis & design process to ensure knowledge transfer & coaching.
During the realization phase of applications, you follow up the compliance of architecture with standards and support architecture responsibilities as part of the standard project lifecycle.
You are responsible for the functional coherence of your domains: determination, implementation and follow up of functional concepts, integration of business needs in existing software solutions.
You assist the team manager and project leaders in the customer's relation.
These objectives are meant to clarify what is typically expected from an IT Architect, they are not limitative or exhaustive.
Good knowledge of English, Fluent in Dutch and/or French
Strong interest for Business Process Analysis
Good knowledge in modelling applications/processes, functional analysis
Cobol, DB2, SQL server, .NET (REST API, Asb), ETL
Similar function and Solution Analysis
Deep knowledge and experience of architecture
Service Oriented Architecture, design patterns, architecture methodologies
Building and construction functional design of insurance applications parts
Insurance and/or Banking applications
Self-starter with a considerable degree of autonomy
We help and support you throughout your project