Solutions Architect, Enterprise, UK

at Stripe

📍 London, United Kingdom

GBP 93,600-140,400 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Solutions Architecture team works with the company’s largest and most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those requirements to Stripe technology.

The role partners with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the capabilities of the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions for payment transactions, money movements, and financial operational processes.

Responsibilities

Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leaders at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate innovations, and define solution strategies.
Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide.
Advocate for customers internally, ensuring their needs are represented with product engineering and influencing product direction and priorities.
Plan and participate in quarterly business reviews, identify new opportunities, and collaborate with account teams on detailed account planning.
Create technical content, including reference architectures and demos, for users.
Speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Requirements

At least 4 years of work experience or equivalent across pre-sales, technical architecture, technical consulting, application delivery, or technical engineering roles, including at least 4 years in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
Strong technical knowledge of software architecture, broad experience across technology stacks, and deep hands-on technical skills.
Ability to discuss technical concepts and explain how they work from both a product feature and API architecture perspective.
Ability to write code.
Experience working with large enterprise customers.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting to large audiences.