Solution Architect (Finance & Billing Systems)
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | CityFibre Holding Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REF3091D |
Summary
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.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Solution Architect (Finance & Billing Systems)
Are you passionate about designing innovative solutions that drive business success? Join our dynamic team as a Solution Architect, focusing on finance and billing systems. 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. You’ll also have:
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. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
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.
Qualifications
-
Additional information
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!
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.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Solution Architect (Finance & Billing Systems)
Are you passionate about designing innovative solutions that drive business success? Join our dynamic team as a Solution Architect, focusing on finance and billing systems. 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. You’ll also have:
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. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
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.
Qualifications
-
Additional information
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!
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.