A functional architect acts as the connecting link between the technical architecture, which forms the ICT-foundation and the executed business processes.
The functional architect has to understand business needs and to analyze data, identify the right data to collect from operational IT systems, design a data model and datasets and take care of data consistency, act as advisor to make proposals to the business and find the most beneficial and efficient use cases.
**Tasks**:
Keep the business requirements, process-descriptions, functional architecture descriptions up to date.
Knowing the business strategy and evolution.
Support business to define their plan for the future and develop project requests.
Actively support the estimation process for those projects as basis for an IT budget.
Rank, prioritize and bundle projects, define project costs and savings.
Prepare material-and-information system flow analyses (MIFAs).
Be engaged in the different steps of the approval project.
Create and update projects in central ICT tools and work closely with the project manager.
Prepare and run technical project gate reviews.
Organize and conduct regular status reviews of the complete domain.
Develop a business transformation plan for the upcoming 1-3 years for the domain and agree with the business leads.
Keeping up to date of industry standards and benchmarks for process and IT.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science or related fields.
Excellent composed and verbal communication skills. (English)
5 years of experience in systems architecture.
Attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
Ability work with virtual & integral teams.
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