Solutions Architect, Enterprise (German fluency)New

The opportunity

The Solutions Architecture team works with our largest, most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology.

What you'll do

  • Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical: leads at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations, and define a solution strategy to solve problems.

  • Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide to them.

  • Serve as an advocate for your customers internally, to ensure their needs are: represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.

  • Create technical content (reference architectures, demos, etc.) to share with: users as well as speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

What they're looking for

  • + years work experience or equivalent in any mixture of roles including: pre-sales, technical architecture (application, technical, systems, integration), technical consulting, application delivery or technical engineering role, with at least 4 years in a customer facing pre-sales role.
  • Possess strong technical knowledge in software architecture, have breadth: across technology stacks with deep hands on skills, and comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective.
  • Ability to write code.
  • Experience with large enterprise customers.
  • Strong verbal and written communication abilities, including presenting to: large audiences in both German and English.
  • A background in payments systems and e-commerce solutions is a plus but not a requirement.