Job DescriptionRole: Guidewire BillingCenter Architect
Location: London
Career Level: Associate Manager
Salary: Competitive, based on experience
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QualificationWe are seeking a highly experienced Guidewire BillingCenter Architect to lead the design and implementation of billing solutions for large-scale insurance transformation programs. This is a highly technical and advisory role requiring deep expertise in Guidewire BillingCenter, insurance billing processes, and enterprise architecture best practices. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of architecting scalable, secure, and high-performance billing systems using Guidewire technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and design of Guidewire BillingCenter implementations for insurance clients.
- Define billing solution blueprints, integration strategies, and technical roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- Provide technical leadership across the full delivery lifecycle including requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Ensure adherence to Guidewire Surepath Methodologies, implementation guidelines, and coding standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather billing requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Design and implement billing workflows, payment processing (including UK Direct Debit Processing, and Credit/Debit card processing), invoicing, and collections modules.
- Architect integrations with external systems such as policy administration, claims, finance, and third-party payment gateways.
- Support performance tuning, scalability planning, and disaster recovery strategies for BillingCenter deployments.
- Conduct architecture reviews, technical workshops, and provide advisory support to clients and delivery teams.
- Stay current with Guidewire product updates, cloud capabilities, and industry trends in insurance billing.
Job Qualifications:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and insurance technology delivery.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing Guidewire BillingCenter solutions.
- Strong understanding of insurance UK billing processes including invoicing, payments, adjustments, and collections.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing Guidewire BillingCenter solutions.
- Strong understanding of insurance billing processes including invoicing, payments, adjustments, and collections.
- Hands-on experience with Guidewire configuration, integration, and data model customization.
- Expertise in Java, Gosu, and Guidewire Studio.
- Experience with Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP) and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Knowledge of integration technologies including APIs, messaging frameworks, and middleware.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Guidewire certifications (BillingCenter, Cloud V10) are highly desirable.
- AutoPilot and Jutro understanding
- Experience in Commercial/Speciality LoBs
- Experience with requirements gathering for integrations with ClaimCenter such as Fraud system, GL, Doc Prod etc.
- Certification on Guidewire BA ClaimCenter
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will alsohave an extensive benefits package which includes up to 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries - powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Closing Date for Applications 28th August 2026
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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