BRIM - Principal Software Architect, Bill To Revenue

• Job Title: Principal Software Architect, Bill to Revenue
• Duration: 12+mo Location: REMOTE

Job Description Extensive expertise in telecommunications billing systems, revenue recognition and financial operations. Streamline accounts receivable, revenue journaling, and revenue recognition while ensuring compliance with complex federal, state, and industry regulations.

Manage traceability and fidelity for large-scale billing migrations, ensuring minimal variance in bill-to-bill comparison and reconciliation of invoicing to revenue reporting. Drive the Billing/CRM/Product Catalog integration with a strong focus on innovation and process efficiency. Ensure stakeholder alignment and architectural consensus across finance, accounting, IT and broader cross-functional teams. Provide guidance to data architecture and data modeling while delivering actionable insights, ensuring end-to-end traceability, and enhancing accuracy, scalability and operational efficiency. Guide data and system architecture to enable revenue reporting spanning customer segmentation, product hierarchy, and regulatory reporting for federal, state entities.

Responsibilities;

Billing, Payment, and Mediation Platform Leadership:

• Provide strategic direction for Telco Billing, Payment, and Mediation Platforms, aligning technology solutions with business objectives
• Strategize on critical business needs, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, develop innovative, cost-effective solutions for increased revenue and improved customer experience

Billing Systems Design and Integration

• Architect end-to-end solutions for billing systems, ensuring seamless integration with upstream systems such as product catalog, ordering platforms and downstream systems such as tax applications, general ledger and revenue reconciliation
• Optimize catalog structures across ordering and billing platforms to streamline workflows and enhance data accuracy
• Establish scalable and flexible frameworks for managing diverse customer segments, product lines, and pricing structures

Complex Billing Migration and Modernization

• Lead large-scale billing system migrations, ensuring zero revenue leakage and robust bill-to-bill analysis throughout transitions
• Develop tools and frameworks to manage fidelity and traceability across legacy and modernized systems
• Leverage cloud-based and next-gen technologies to future-proof billing and revenue architectures

Data Architecture and Reconciliation

• Provide guidance to development teams to align data structures across platforms to enhance data integrity and facilitate accurate revenue recognition
• Lead reconciliation processes between invoicing and revenue reporting, ensuring traceability and fidelity for all transactions
• Build robust frameworks to track regulated/non-regulated revenue, affiliate/non-affiliate transactions, and federal/state subsidies

Revenue Management and Compliance

• Oversee the alignment between billing and revenue reporting systems to conform with ASC 606 and GAAP standards, ensuring all revenue recognition processes meet management reporting, external reporting, regulatory reporting and audit requirements
• Develop and maintain reporting frameworks to support federal/state subsidy audits and compliance needs
• Optimize accounts receivable processes and implement automated journaling solutions for better transparency and efficiency

Agile Support and Delivery

• Collaborate with agile delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment with iterative design and implementation cycles
• Support cross-functional teams with detailed technical designs, enhancing speed-to-market while maintaining compliance and quality

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (10+ years) in delivering OSS, BSS solutions for Telecommunications industry
• Extensive experience in Billing, Payment, Revenue Recognition for North American Telco
• Managing large-scale system migrations and technology transformations
• Played critical role in at least 2-3 large scale billing and/or revenue migrations
• Billing Systems: SAP BRIM, Amdocs, Oracle BRM, CSG Systems
• Revenue & Compliance: ASC 606, GAAP, SOX
• Data Management: SQL, Look ML, ETL Pipelines, Data Modeling & Data Enrichment
• Analytics Platforms: Google Cloud Platform & Big Query, AWS Redshift
• Reporting & Analytics Tools: Google Cloud Platform Looker, Power BI, Oracle Hyperion, Tableau, Qlik
• Strong understanding of North American Telco products, regulatory framework, revenue recognition rules and reporting framework
• Bachelor s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field. Master s degree preferred
• Prior working experience with Atlassian tools, including JIRA, Confluence
• Led end to end architecture, functional requirement, application development, and systems integration

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