Solutions Architect, Platforms, UK

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Responsibilities

• ▹Be a key member of the Platform account team, involved in defining customer strategy, identifying and closing new complex opportunities and accelerating solution adoption
• ▹Understand the customer's product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate it
• ▹Provide thought leadership and act as a trusted advisor to business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments
• ▹Understand the customer's business objectives, then design and apply Stripe's solutions to their challenges
• ▹Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries and competitors
• ▹Expand Stripe's footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units with new capabilities and local payment methods
• ▹Approximately 25% travel for in-person work with users and colleagues

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect or sales engineer at a global software enterprise
• ▹Experience in the payments, billing, invoicing, issuing, banking or fintech space
• ▹Executive engagement skills and presence, with the ability to build strong relationships with key decision makers
• ▹Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence leading customer meetings
• ▹Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architectures
• ▹Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
• ▹Experience as an enterprise architect, senior solution architect or principal solution engineer advising digital-native, SaaS, platform or marketplace companies

Nice to have

• ▹Experience writing code in one of Stripe's primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.)
• ▹Prior experience in consulting
• ▹Experience at a growth-stage internet or software company

Soft skills

About the company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, used by millions of companies from the largest enterprises to ambitious startups to accept payments and grow revenue.