Solutions Architect, Enterprise, UK

About the Position

Solutions Architect, Enterprise, UK

London, UK

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Team

The Solutions Architecture team works with our largest, most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology.

As a Solutions Architect, you'll partner with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the art of the possible with the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions to enable payment transactions, manage money movements, and simplify financial operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leads at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations, and define a solution strategy to solve problems.
• Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide to them.
• Serve as an advocate for your customers internally, to ensure their needs are represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.
• Plan and participate in quarterly business reviews with your users, identify new opportunities, and collaborate on detailed account planning with account teams.
• Create technical content (reference architectures, demos, etc.) to share with users as well as speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 4+ years' work experience or equivalent in any mixture of roles including pre-sales, technical architecture (application, technical, systems or integration), technical consulting, application delivery, or technical engineering role, with at least 4 years in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
• Possess strong technical knowledge in software architecture, have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands-on skills, and comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective.
• Ability to write code.
• Experience with large enterprise customers.
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities, including presenting to large audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• A background in payments systems and e-commerce solutions is a plus but not a requirement.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.