# Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments, you will collaborate closely with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue targets, while also educating the product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influencing the product roadmap.

## Responsibilities

- Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations to accelerate opportunities globally

- Demonstrate a deep understanding of global payment optimization - including local acquiring, intelligent routing, dynamic currency conversion, and authorization improvement strategies

- Develop expertise in designing multi-PSP and payment orchestration architectures, including how Stripe integrates alongside or replaces incumbent processors

- Advise customers on BNPL strategy, including product selection, regulatory considerations, and integration patterns across checkout and billing flows

- Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team

- Create reference architectures that help customers design end-to-end payment infrastructure with Stripe at the core

- Partner closely with the Payments product sales team on Stripe's most complex OCS and Orchestration opportunities, leading solution strategy and owning key customer relationships

- Serve as a "Voice of the Customer" internally to drive product and feature request prioritization

- Identify and summarize trends in payment orchestration, cost optimization, and alternative payment methods, and provide actionable insights to product stakeholders and sales

- Act as an escalation point to drive complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe's engineering team

- Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation

- Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows

- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated

## Requirements

- 7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related industry in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role

- Strong working knowledge of global payment methods including cards, wallets, bank-based methods, and BNPLs - including regional preferences and regulatory context

- Experience designing payment optimization architectures for large enterprises, including multi-PSP environments and orchestration layers

- Knowledge of authorization rate improvement levers: local acquiring, network tokenization, 3DS, smart retries, and the technical and commercial tradeoffs between them

- Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns

- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners

- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment

## Skills

### Required
- payment optimization
- payment orchestration
- BNPL integrations
- global payment methods
- software engineering
- API integration patterns

### Nice to have
- Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful payment APIs into web applications
- Knowledge of ISO payment standards and card network rules
- Experience with payment cost modeling, interchange optimization, or processor benchmarking
- Familiarity with marketplace and platform payment flows (Connect, multi-party transactions)

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