Job Description

Our client in the Digital Communications sector is seeking a Senior Technical Lead Billing on a contract duration of 12 months.
The Senior Technical Lead - Billing is accountable for the end-to-end technical leadership, architecture, and operational integrity of wholesale billing landscape. The role owns the technical design, integration, and execution of high-volume billing platforms supporting international voice, SMS, data, signalling, RBM, RMS and value-added services, ensuring accurate rating, charging, invoicing, settlement, and financial reconciliation. Operating at the intersection of Network, Mediation, Finance, Revenue Assurance, EVA, and external partner ecosystems, the role acts as the technical authority for all billing-related solutions. This includes defining and governing billing architecture, leading complex system integrations, enforcing non-functional requirements (scalability, resilience, performance, security), and providing technical support. The Senior Technical Lead - Billing is responsible for translating commercial and operational requirements into robust, auditable, and automation-enabled billing solutions, while actively reducing revenue leakage, billing disputes, and operational risk. The role provides hands-on technical leadership to internal teams and vendors, ensures compliance with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards, and drives continuous improvement of billing accuracy, controls, and operational efficiency across business
Competencies and Key Skills

• Deep expertise in wholesale telecommunications billing for voice, SMS, data, signalling, and value-added services
• Strong knowledge of rating, charging, discounting, taxation, invoicing, settlement, and partner reconciliation
• Experience with high-volume, high-throughput billing environments with strict accuracy and timeliness requirements
• Agile Management, Project Management & DevOps experience.
• Hands-on experience with mediation platforms and CDR/XDR ingestion, validation, enrichment, and error handling
• Strong integration skills across APIs, file-based interfaces, message queues, and streaming pipelines
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including performance, security, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Ability to design and enforce technical controls for billing accuracy and revenue assurance
• Experience with release management, deployment planning, and rollback strategies in billing platforms
• Strong focus on automation of billing runs, validations, reconciliations, and exception handling

For more information please contact:
Matshidiso Moabelo

Skills Required