# Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Stripe, Payments, Fintech, Iso Payment Standards, Payment Architectures, Bnpl, Digital Wallets, Checkout Optimization, Fraud Detection, REST APIs
**Posted:** 2026-02-09

> Leads payments architecture for enterprises using Stripe solutions to optimize conversion, authorization, and revenue while reducing risks. Requires 7+ years in payments/fintech with deep expertise in global payment methods and enterprise-scale implementations.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

Collaborate with sales and pre-sales teams to drive pipeline and revenue, educate product and engineering on market trends, develop customer relationships, and create reusable assets. As a Payments and Money Movement specialist, lead financial infrastructure transformations using Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite and Link solutions to maximize authorization rates, conversion, and revenue while reducing risk and fraud.

### Responsibilities
- Lead customer teams to visualize, strategize, prioritize, implement, and measure impact with Stripe solutions
- Partner with customers to co-develop strategy for embedding Payments capabilities, focused on Optimized Checkout Suite and Link
- Work with leaders to define architectures simplifying payments, reducing costs/risks, improving rates
- Act as technical consultant on financial architecture best practices with Stripe
- Conduct deep discovery workshops on existing financial technologies
- Advise on change management and prioritize KPIs
- Create shareable architecture diagrams to accelerate deals
- Provide product direction recommendations
- Develop reusable assets like value drivers, solutions, best practices
- Stay current on technologies; showcase thought leadership
- ~25% travel

### Minimum Requirements
- 7+ years experience in payments, fintech
- Knowledge of ISO payment standards
- Designing payment flows/architectures for large enterprises
- Experience with global payment methods (BNPLs, Wallets)
- Optimizing payment experiences for checkout conversion
- Integration with payment hubs, banking, fraud/risk, sanctions, rails
- Knowledge in conversion improvement, cost optimization, compliance, reliability, cards expansion
- Large-scale enterprise infrastructure, multi-party platforms
- Persuasive presentation to leadership
- Strategic technology direction and communication
- Effective communication across audiences
- Ability to travel

### Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating Stripe or RESTful APIs
- Online/in-person payments, subscriptions
- Subject matter expert in relevant industry/product

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