Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

This specialist solutions architect will lead complex enterprise payment optimization opportunities, designing multi-PSP and orchestration architectures while advising customers and influencing Stripe’s product roadmap. The role requires 7+ years in payments or related pre-sales architecture, strong global payments expertise, and excellent communication skills.

About the job

Responsibilities

Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations.
Advise global enterprise customers on payment optimization, including local acquiring, intelligent routing, dynamic currency conversion, authorization improvement, and alternative payment methods.
Design multi-PSP and payment orchestration architectures, including Stripe integrations alongside or in place of incumbent processors.
Advise on BNPL strategy, regulatory considerations, and checkout and billing integration patterns.
Create reference architectures and reusable assets for end-to-end payment infrastructure.
Partner with Payments product sales on complex opportunities, leading solution strategy and key customer relationships.
Provide customer insights, competitive analysis, and market trends to product and sales stakeholders.
Escalate complex technical issues to engineering and support marketing events.
Approximately 25% travel is anticipated.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related industry in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
Strong knowledge of global payment methods, including cards, wallets, bank-based methods, and BNPL.
Experience designing payment optimization architectures for large enterprises, including multi-PSP environments and orchestration layers.
Knowledge of authorization-rate improvement levers, including local acquiring, network tokenization, 3DS, and smart retries.
Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns.
Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to build collaborative relationships and work effectively amid ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

Nice-to-haves

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, including Connect and multi-party transactions.
Subject matter expertise in a relevant industry, vertical, or product.

Skills

Stripe Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive Pricing, Payment Orchestration, Bnpl, Local Acquiring, Intelligent Routing, Dynamic Currency Conversion, Network Tokenization, 3Ds, Smart Retries, REST APIs, Iso Payment Standards, Stripe Connect, Payment Cost Modeling