Lead Functional Analyst - bpost

Role Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Functional Analyst with 5 to 10 years of expertise in event-driven architecture (EDA) and enterprise integration. This role serves as a critical link between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring seamless collaboration, accurate requirement translation, and the efficient development of event-driven systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and extensive experience in leading requirement gathering, documentation, and testing efforts within large-scale EDA implementationsLead discussions between business stakeholders, architects, and producer/consumer application teams to define EDA-based solutions. Facilitate alignment on business objectives, ensuring technical feasibility and optimal integration strategy. Guide requirement-gathering sessions by leveraging deep knowledge of EDA, event streams, and system design. Develop and refine high-level functional specifications, event definitions, and system workflows to support business needs. Create and maintain comprehensive data models, process flows, and integration design documents, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Drive improvements in documentation quality and standardization across functional teams. Work closely with architects and developers to ensure EDA design principles are accurately implemented. Provide advanced functional support in system integration, event sourcing, and business workflow mapping. Identify and address bottlenecks in functional design, recommending optimal solutions. Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy, focusing on validating event interactions and data flow consistency. Develop and refine UAT test cases, execution plans, and validation frameworks for event-driven applications. Work alongside QA and business teams to track defects, troubleshoot issues, and optimize workflows before production rollout.