IT Integration Functional Analyst (Open Vacancy)

As a global logistics service provider, Katoen Natie combines engineering, technology and port operations to offer worldwide, tailor-made solutions to the chemical and automotive industries, and to the consumer goods, electronics & retail sector. Katoen Natie has 181 logistic platforms and is active in 40 countries all over Europe, North America, South America and the Far East with a staff of more than 18.000 people.

Our Business Units Petrochemicals, Specialty Chemicals, Warehousing & Commodities and Food & Feed offer total solutions based on integrated logistics and engineering. To support these fast-growing businesses, Katoen Natie is looking for Functional analyst with Integration or EDI knowledge.

• The FA knows the logistical cross system business processes/use cases well and designs the integration lines handling the data exchanges needed to facilitate these processes.
• The FA defines the integration logic on a high level (routing, mapping, validation, enrichment, orchestration, …), lists which endpoints are to be used (API/Operation, Service bus,…) and adds message information (trigger, event, document, format, values…).
• The FA brings the teams responsible for the different systems (ARD, YMS, TMS, WMS, Middleware,…) together to align on and chart the functional requirements on business processes and high-level implementation details on the needed data exchanges.
• Maintaining communication lines cross team is vital for the project, the FA helps in facilitating and thinks along to find the correct solution.

 Responsibilities

• Chart/design business processes from an integration viewpoint
• Detail business process steps with schema info and integration logic
• Provide packages of integration information for integration developers
• Apply or consider integration patterns and pitfalls (ordered delivery, batching, data ownership, disparate and dissimilar systems…) with the help of integration team
• Get the deliverables reviewed and agreed upon by internal/external stakeholders
• Gauge the impact of upcoming changes, update the deliverables accordingly

Deliverables

• Business case and process (BPMN, state diagram, sequence diagram)
• Integration logic (mapping, routing, …)
• Non functional requirements (tracking, volume, error handling, …)

Requirements

• Level of experience:
  • Minimum 3 years of working experience as a functional analyst with focus on Integrations.
  • Must haves
    • Minimum a Bachelor’s degree, or similar by experience.
    • The team is located in Belgium, UK & Macedonia, reason why a good level of English is a must.
    • Functional knowledge of Azure Integrated Services (APIM, Logic Apps, Service bus, Function apps,…)
    • Documenting skills.
  • Nice to haves
    • Experience with Biztalk
    • Experience with Oracle Integration Cloud
    • Project management knowledge
    • EDI knowledge
    • Knowledge about architecture

Technical Context (Knowledge Description):

• Experience with Azure AIS
• API experience
• Experience with Visio, Enterprise Architect, Draw.io,… (one or multiple tools)
• BPNM/UML is a plus
• Experience with Azure DevOps (or similar tool)

Soft Skills

• Hands on, very good communication and relations skills.
• Flexible, involved, organized, self-motivated.
• Team player
• Pragmatical
• Knowing the value of documentation.
• Providing value to the business

• An exciting job in a leading dynamic company with no-nonsense culture
• A job with high responsibility and lots of variety
• The option to work on a wide range of integrations touching multiple business area’s
• Inhouse trainings & workshops
• Regular team events