Guidewire BillingCenter Architect NEW

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Job Description

Role: Guidewire BillingCenter Architect

Location: London

Career Level: Associate Manager

Salary: Competitive, based on experience

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. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

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Qualifications

We 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.
• 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 Lines of Business.
• 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 also have 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.

Locations

London

Closing Date

28th August 2026

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