Business Architect (part-time contract)

Applaudo Studios

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About The Position

This role is for a Business Architect who will bridge the finance and engineering domains, translating a complex subscription billing model into data requirements for the integration team. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity across business and technical areas and will guide stakeholders through the transformation from a legacy accounting system to Zuora. Responsibilities include interpreting Zuora's data model and billing logic to support the technical team, maintaining stakeholder communication, and ensuring technical continuity during a handover period. This is a part-time contractor position and does not include project management, Zuora platform administration, or change management authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in business analysis, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis.
• Strong subscription and billing domain knowledge, covering recurring revenue, invoicing, and the payment lifecycle.
• Data literacy, with the ability to read pipeline logic, validate data flows, and QA outputs.
• Stakeholder facilitation skills, running workshops, producing decision docs, and framing trade-offs for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Prior ERP or accounting system migration or transformation experience.
• Ability to ramp up independently, learning a new billing platform's data model and business context with minimal oversight.
• Advanced Conversational English.
• Executive facing communication skills, with fluency sufficient to work directly with a US based controller and finance team.
• Proven business analysis experience across finance and technical domains, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis.
• Strong subscription and billing domain expertise, covering recurring revenue, invoicing, and payment lifecycle.
• Data literacy, comfortable reading pipeline logic and validating data flows and outputs.
• Prior ERP or accounting system migration or transformation experience.
• Advanced English fluency for direct, executive level collaboration with a US based finance team.

Nice To Haves

• Zuora platform familiarity across billing, revenue, and CPQ modules.
• GCP ecosystem awareness, including BigQuery, Looker, and Data Studio.
• Familiarity with change management frameworks such as ADKAR or Kotter.
• A Zuora Certified Administrator or Revenue Analyst certification.

Responsibilities

• Translate the billing model in Zuora into data requirements the integration team can act on.
• Lead business analysis for the portion of scope that Zuora's professional services doesn't cover, including custom billing rules, revenue recognition, and reporting.
• Guide finance and business stakeholders through the transformation from a legacy accounting system to Zuora, providing clear transformation guidance at each step.
• Interpret Zuora's data model and billing logic to unblock the integration team, acting as a partial platform advisor rather than a full platform administrator.
• Facilitate decisions and trade-off conversations directly with the controller and finance stakeholders.
• Maintain stakeholder communication and technical context continuity during a planned handover or coverage period.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree