# Strategy & Transformation Advisor

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Digital Transformation, Commerce Platforms, Order Management, ERP, CRM, API Integrations, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud Platforms, Data Architecture, Payments, Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Senior advisor leading enterprise commerce architecture and transformation strategy for complex pre-sales pursuits. The role requires 12+ years of enterprise architecture or technology strategy experience, deep commerce and payments expertise, and credibility with executive technical stakeholders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Shape enterprise commerce transformation strategy
- Lead executive discovery, strategy, and architecture workshops for strategic enterprise prospects and users.
- Assess commerce and technology landscapes across commerce platforms, order management, ERP and finance, CRM, loyalty, identity, data, fulfillment, risk, and engineering systems.
- Develop future-state architecture points of view positioning Stripe as a financial backbone.
- Translate business objectives into architecture and operating-model implications.
- Define system boundaries, ownership models, integration patterns, data flows, design principles, dependencies, and migration considerations.
- Create phased, dependency-aware transformation roadmaps tied to measurable business outcomes.

### Support strategic enterprise pursuits
- Partner with GTM, account teams, enterprise service managers, sales leaders, and Solutions Architecture on complex pursuits.
- Advise executive technical and business stakeholders on architecture trade-offs and future-state planning.
- Create executive narratives, architecture artifacts, transformation roadmaps, and decision materials.
- Support account strategy, opportunity shaping, and value articulation.
- Help define the path from architecture vision to implementation scope while leaving detailed design and delivery ownership to the appropriate teams.

### Advise technical teams
- Serve as a senior thought partner to Integration Engineers, Solutions Architects, Account Executives, and Strategy and Transformation Consultants.
- Advise on system-of-record boundaries, API and event design, data ownership, reconciliation, operational resilience, migration strategy, and organizational readiness.
- Coach teams on executive technical storytelling, architecture discovery, and connecting technical decisions to business value.
- Build reusable architecture frameworks, reference patterns, workshop methods, and transformation narratives.

### Inform strategy and product direction
- Bring customer architecture patterns, friction points, and unmet needs to Product, Engineering, and GTM leadership.
- Identify trends including AI-enabled commerce and financial operations, omnichannel experiences, embedded finance, platform business models, and global expansion.
- Contribute to enterprise commerce thought leadership and customer-facing content.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, digital transformation, management consulting, or senior technical advisory roles.
- Significant experience advising large enterprises on complex technology transformation, ideally involving commerce, payments, financial systems, or customer-facing platforms.
- Experience engaging credibly with C-suite and vice president-level business and technical leaders.
- Deep understanding of enterprise commerce architecture, including commerce platforms, order management, ERP and finance, CRM, loyalty, identity, fulfillment, and cloud data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of API-first integration, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, data flows, and enterprise operating models.
- Working knowledge of payments and financial infrastructure, including acceptance, acquiring, settlement, reconciliation, fraud and risk, compliance, and multi-party payment models.
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to revenue growth, conversion, authorization performance, operational efficiency, resilience, cost, and speed to market.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to make complex architecture decisions clear to executive audiences.

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