Sounds like a good idea. Which functional language(s) would you personally recommend for this use case?
I'm saying this because functional programming has the potential to simplify software architecture in some cases and make you a better developer or architect. Learning a new paradigm makes you question current practices more and that is a good thing imho. Recently I've been looking into Racket and I'd probably never do production stuff on it but it's been a real eye opener to me. I also like F#. There are a lot of resources out there, one of them is Scott Wlaschin, look him up on youtube.