Job Description

Mission Overview:

Keystone Solutions is seeking an Expert Functional Analyst to join us as a consultant for a major modernization mission with our client. The engagement focuses on transforming a legacy monolithic application into a modern, API‑first, event‑driven microservices architecture running on Kubernetes. This mission goes beyond technical modernization to drive business transformation: enabling new features, improving agility, and accelerating value delivery for both internal and external users. By building a more flexible and scalable digital platform, the client aims to deliver better services, enhance user experience, and adapt faster to evolving business and regulatory needs. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will work closely with the client's teams—on site and/or in a hybrid setup—to deliver these outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform end‑to‑end functional analysis in an API‑first, event‑driven microservices context on Kubernetes, aligned with the client's modernization and business transformation goals, as a Keystone Solutions consultant working alongside the client's teams.
• Model and document current and target business processes using BPMN and UML; clearly describe desired and existing processes.
• Define and manage interface contracts (synchronous and asynchronous), ensuring clarity and consistency across services.
• Design and maintain sequence diagrams specifying interactions between components in synchronous/asynchronous architectures.
• Design, maintain, and ensure coherence of data models; apply strong SQL querying to validate processing success/failures and support troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain high‑quality functional and technical documentation that guides developers and testers.
• Collaborate within Agile/Scrum teams; contribute to testing strategies and execution to ensure quality deliverables.
• Provide leadership within the pillar/workstream: coach and challenge analysts, facilitate cross‑team alignment, and support project leadership activities.
• Estimate development time/cost collaboratively; manage priorities and time effectively to meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.

Required Skills and Experience (to be performed as a Keystone Solutions consultant):

• Agile — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Good knowledge of Business Process Modeling, UML & BPMN methods, and functional and technical analysis; ability to clearly describe desired and existing processes
• Build and maintain technical documentation to guide Developers and Testers — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Interface contracts (Sync & Async) — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Data Governance — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Foundational data management knowledge to query information to understand successful or failed processing
• Data modeling — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Ability to design Data Models: define, maintain, and guarantee the consistency of the data model (mastery of SQL queries)
• Sequence Diagrams — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Solid experience in designing Sequence Diagrams to specify interactions between components in synchronous/asynchronous architectures
• IT tools — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Hands‑on knowledge of tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, SoapUI, SQL client, Browser Developer Tools, and modeling/design tools (UML, Sequence, Data Model)
• Leadership — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Demonstrated team spirit and leadership; ability to coach and challenge analysts within the pillar/workstream
• Project leader — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• SCRUM — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Testing — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Time management — Level: Expert — Most recent experience: Any time
• Ability to estimate development time/cost as a group

Languages:

• Dutch or French — Level: Nice to have
• English — Level: Active knowledge

Strategic Mindset We Will Assess:

• Ability to demonstrate solid expertise in opportunity analysis and strategic vision.
• Essential aptitude to challenge assumptions, propose alternative solutions, and apply constant pragmatism in the overall interest of the project—optimizing deliverables, timelines, budget, and quality.

Consultancy at Keystone Solutions: How You'll Work

• Consultancy nature of work: You will operate as a Keystone Solutions consultant embedded with the client, collaborating daily with their stakeholders and delivery teams, often on site, to deliver tangible outcomes in a complex microservices and Kubernetes environment.
• Dynamic projects: This mission anchors you in a large‑scale modernization program while opening opportunities to contribute to other client initiatives over time—tackling diverse challenges such as API design, event choreography, process optimization, and data governance.
• Turbo‑charged learning and development: Access to coaching, certifications, communities of practice, and expert peer reviews at Keystone Solutions so you continuously sharpen your BPMN/UML, integration, data modeling, and Agile delivery skills.
• Ambition skyrocketing within a consultancy framework: Build a portfolio of high‑impact client engagements, grow from expert analyst to lead/architect tracks, and broaden your influence across multiple domains.

Keystone Solutions' Values in Every Engagement

• Client impact first: We align analysis, design, and delivery decisions to measurable client outcomes.
• Craftsmanship: Clear models, rigorous documentation, and testable specifications that developers and testers trust.
• Curiosity and learning: We explore, validate, and improve patterns for API‑first, event‑driven, and data‑centric platforms.
• Accountability: We own our commitments—scope, time, budget, and quality.
• Team over ego: As K‑Stones, we coach, challenge, and elevate each other and our client counterparts.
• Integrity: We say what we do and do what we say—always.

Role‑Specific Advantages for an Expert Functional Analyst

• Apply deep BPMN/UML, interface contract design (sync/async), and sequence diagram expertise to a real‑world, large‑scale microservices migration on Kubernetes.
• Shape robust data models and governance in an event‑driven context, leveraging strong SQL skills to ensure reliability and traceability.
• Lead analysts within a cross‑functional Agile setup, directly influencing the quality and speed of delivery.
• Benefit from Keystone Solutions' consulting community—playbooks, peer support, accelerators, and knowledge sharing tailored to functional analysis at scale.

If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today at Keystone Solutions Career Portal