Functional Administrator | Groningen

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Job description

Do you want to take the lead as an entrepreneurial Functional Administrator in crucial IT transformations that matter in both the public and private domain?

Within Randstad Digital, as a Functional Administrator, you form the crucial foundation between demanding business processes and the daily practice of end-users. In your advisory role, you deliver customized solutions for varied assignments with leading clients, with the aim of making their IT landscape agile, reliable, and innovative. You ensure that software solutions run technically flawlessly and seamlessly align with societal challenges and strategic goals. Do you want to immediately deploy your analytical power to help governments and groundbreaking commercial organizations advance digitally?

Your acquired expertise yields immediate measurable results—whether you are strengthening the information architecture at a local or national government agency, managing advanced data platforms within the banking and insurance sector, or maintaining business-critical environments in telecommunications, retail, and aviation. As a Randstad Digital consultant, you rotate through high-profile assignments at market leaders across the country. You will have ample opportunity to tackle large, state-of-the-art cloud infrastructures on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Your impact:

As an IT consultant, you take the lead on behalf of Randstad Digital in versatile, complex projects. Thanks to a solid foundation of at least 3 years of work experience in functional management, you take ownership of the following pillars:

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In addition to challenging consultancy assignments, Randstad Digital offers an attractive package of employment conditions, including:

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As a Functional Administrator at Randstad Digital, you work for a wide range of leading clients, from commercial multinationals to socially relevant government agencies. This diversity offers you unique opportunities to make an impact and utilize your expertise broadly. Do you want to make an impact as a consultant at progressive organizations? At Randstad Digital, you will find challenging assignments that match your ambitions. As a consultant, you set things in motion with your expertise, skills, and mindset.

With our strong community and personal coaching from Randstad Digital, you will get the most out of your career.

Naturally, this vacancy is open to anyone who recognizes themselves in this.

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• Stakeholder Management: You navigate with natural ease through politically sensitive and demanding organizational structures. You act as a solid sounding board for IT partners, project leaders, and strategic decision-makers.
• Quality Assurance and Testing: You develop sharp test scripts, coordinate the integral testing process, and independently ensure acceptance testing (GAT) to guarantee that every delivery meets the highest quality standards.
• Process Improvement: You continuously identify opportunities to design application chains more effectively. You embrace modern GenAI solutions (such as Copilot, Claude, or Gemini) to automate workflows, and utilize SQL, advanced Excel analyses, or dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik to visualize performance.
• Information Needs and Specifications: As a regular point of contact for the business, you distill the core question from user requirements and translate it into clear functional designs. Your thorough experience with packages like SAP, AFAS, TOPdesk, or Centric ensures you make an immediate operational impact.
• Change and Release Management: You direct changes from initial intake to actual go-live. With management frameworks such as BiSL and ITIL as guidelines, you purposefully manage application portfolios within Agile and DevOps environments, facilitated by Jira and Confluence.
• You have at least a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree, preferably in Computer Science, Business Information Management, Business Administration, or similar.
• You have at least 3 years of work experience as a functional administrator or in a comparable role.
• You have at least 1 year of experience with central or local government and additionally in banking, retail, aviation, telecommunications, or another critical industry.
• You have managed multiple packages such as Top Desk, ServiceNow, Afas, Youforce, Centric, SAP, M365, or MDynamics.
• You are familiar with Agile and DevOps environments and the use of Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• You have experience with or demonstrable passion for at least one cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP) and the application of GenAI tools (Gemini, Copilot, Claude).
• You are ITIL v3 and/or BiSL certified (BiSL Next is a pré).
• You have knowledge of SQL, Excel, and preferably one BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik).
• Experience in Consultancy/Secondment is a strong pré.
• Entrepreneurship, customer focus, and problem-analytical ability.
• Knowledge carrier with a leading role.
• Connector, strong communicator, advisory skills, and didactic ability.
• A salary between €4200 and €5800 gross per month based on 40 hours
• A one-year contract, with the prospect of a permanent contract based on 36 hours per week
• A monthly individual choice budget (IKB) of 8.76% of your salary that you can use flexibly
• 25 vacation days; 5 days can be included in the IKB budget
• A good travel expense reimbursement; an NS-Business card and €0.23 cents per km
• A sabbatical arrangement; up to 12 months every three years
• Flexible holidays; the freedom to swap for other holidays
• A nice bonus scheme
• The possibility of hybrid working
• A good pension scheme with ASR Capital
• Additional allowances for internet, telephone, and a home office budget
• A free Gemini Google AI Pro account
• A training budget, coaching, and unlimited access to the Randstad Digital Academy with over 3000 courses and training
• Networking events, knowledge sessions, and an annual community festival

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Groningen, NL
• Languages: Dutch