# Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Payments Architecture, Payment Orchestration, Multi-Currency Payments, Payment Methods, Fraud And Risk Systems, Money Movement, REST APIs, Iso Payment Standards, Reference Architectures, Stripe
**Posted:** 2026-08-29

> Leads enterprise payments engagements across APAC, designing scalable architectures and advising senior stakeholders on conversion, authorization, cost, risk, and local-market considerations. Requires 7+ years in payments or related financial technology, deep payments expertise, and fluency in English and Business Mandarin.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead complex enterprise customer engagements from discovery through solution design, implementation planning, and measurement of business impact across Managed Payments, Adaptive Pricing, OCS, and local payment methods.
- Advise customers on scalable payments architecture, including payment orchestration, multi-currency flows, cards, wallets, local payment methods, fraud and risk systems, and money-movement rails.
- Conduct discovery with business and technical stakeholders, develop solution scopes and reference architectures, and guide trade-offs across conversion, authorization, cost, risk, customer experience, and implementation complexity.
- Provide APAC regional market insight, including cross-border and local payment-method considerations, to customers, sales teams, and product and engineering organizations.
- Scale organizational impact through reusable APAC assets, customer workshops, coaching on strategic opportunities, and collaboration with teams and customers across the region.
- Travel approximately 25% as needed.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or a related technology industry, including designing payment solutions or financial architectures for enterprise customers.
- Deep knowledge of payment flows and payments architecture, including cards, wallets, local payment methods, multi-currency payments, payment orchestration, fraud and risk systems, money movement, and relevant ISO payment standards.
- Experience advising large B2B and/or B2C enterprises on payment modernization, checkout optimization, conversion and authorization improvement, cost optimization, network compliance, or processing reliability.
- Strong understanding of the APAC payments landscape and cross-border payment considerations.
- Strong project management, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Professional fluency in English and Business Mandarin for business and technical conversations across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Greater China.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Stripe or integrating RESTful APIs into web or mobile applications.
- Experience with Optimized Checkout, payment orchestration, adaptive payment routing, or checkout-conversion optimization.
- Experience with online payments, marketplaces, subscriptions, platforms, or multi-party money movement.
- Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or a payments-specialist role.
- Experience building a new regional function, creating repeatable operating practices, or succeeding as an early in-region hire within a globally distributed organization.

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