Solution Architect (Finance & Billing Systems)

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week. As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be. Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

Joining us as a Solution Architect (Finance & Billing Systems) means you will play a crucial role in defining and communicating the structure and dynamics of solutions that meet key stakeholder requirements, identifying architectural risks, and providing recommendations for mitigation. You’ll receive a competitive salary, a car allowance, a performance-related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders to capture, maintain, and evolve current state architecture with a focus on finance and billing systems.
• Evaluate internal functions, systems, business strategies, and IT processes to improve finance and billing systems, supporting our future strategies and goals.
• Ensure alignment between business and technology by linking the business mission, strategy, and processes to the technology strategy, particularly in finance and billing systems.
• Support the early life definition of programs and projects, including shaping and defining the scope and roadmap for finance and billing systems, and input into business cases (e.g., estimation, impact analysis).
• Manage or assist in the delivery of technical solutions that provide business advantages through effective design of finance and billing systems.
• Collaborate with all departments to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges related to finance and billing systems.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• You have a strong background in solution architecture with a focus on finance and billing systems.
• Experience with Telecoms, IT Industry, and Enterprise Architecture best practice methodologies, processes, functions, and data maps such as those used by TM Forum, or defined by ITIL, TOGAF, BPMN, UML, etc.
• Ability to define and articulate complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders, especially in finance and billing systems.
• Demonstrable experience working with systems and solutions deployed in a cloud environment, ideally AWS.
• Experience with reverse engineering undocumented legacy systems and software, including data models.
• Good commercial awareness, with the ability to select the best-fit product for finance and billing purposes.
• Excellent communication skills, communicating to both internal and external clients.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre.

What you can expect from us: We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!