Principal Architect, IT Bill To Revenue

Company Description

At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South.

Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience.  

Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality….designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none.

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Job Description

We are looking for a strategic and results-driven Principal Architect, IT Bill to Revenue with extensive expertise in telecommunications billing systems, revenue recognition and financial operations to join our growing team! You will work to streamline accounts receivable, revenue journaling, and revenue recognition while ensuring compliance with complex federal, state, and industry regulations. You will manage traceability and fidelity for large-scale billing migrations, ensuring minimal variance in bill-to-bill comparison and reconciliation of invoicing to revenue reporting. He/she will drive Billing/CRM/Product Catalog integration with a strong focus on innovation and process efficiency. In this role, you will ensure stakeholder alignment and architectural consensus across finance, accounting, IT and broader cross-functional teams. You will provide guidance for data architecture and data modeling while delivering actionable insights, ensuring end to end traceability, and enhancing accuracy, scalability and operational efficiency. You will also give guidance for data and system architecture to enable revenue reporting spanning customer segmentation, product hierarchy, and regulatory reporting for federal, state entities.

This role emphasizes a balance of technical leadership, strategic alignment, and collaborative influence to drive success in a highly dynamic and regulated telecommunications environment. It also integrates modern methodologies like agile architecture support and platform normalization to ensure a forward-looking approach.

As Principal Architect, IT Bill to Revenue, your duties & responsibilities will include:

• 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 receivables
  • 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