# Solutions Architect, Platforms, UK

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: LOCATION
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Solutions Architect, Platforms, at Stripe, you will build highly consultative, trusted relationships with C-level executives and technical decision-makers in the customer's organization to provide business and technical thought leadership.

## Responsibilities

- Be a key member of the Platform account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy; identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption.

- Understand and align with the customer's product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap.

- Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments.

- Work to deeply understand the customer's business objectives, and then design and apply Stripe's solutions to their challenges.

- Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries, and competitors with a view to support growth for the user's business.

- Expand Stripe's footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods.

- Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally.

## Requirements

- 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.

- Experience in the payments, billing, invoicing, issuing, banking or Fintech space.

- Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.

- Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence in proposing and leading customer meetings to gain strategic footing and pursue opportunities.

- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architectures.

- A background in writing code in any of Stripe's primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.) is a plus.

- Superior verbal and written communication skills in English.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience in consulting.

- Experience at a growth-stage internet or software company.

## Skills

### Required
- solution architecture
- technical thought leadership
- business analysis
- API architectures
- software development lifecycle
- Ruby
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Go

### Nice to have
- consulting
- growth-stage internet or software company

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