Solutions Architect, Startup & Smb (french-speaking)

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · France · 1150 Solutions Architecture

Stripe is seeking a Solutions Architect for its Startup & SMB team in France. This role involves partnering with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrating the Stripe Platform, and designing solutions for payment transactions, money movements, and financial operations. The Solutions Architect will engage with technical leaders at key accounts, advocate for customer needs internally, and create technical content. The role requires strong technical depth, business consulting skills, coding ability, and experience with large enterprise customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide to them.
  3. Serve as an advocate for your customers internally, to ensure their needs are represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.
  4. Plan and participate in quarterly business reviews with your users, identify new opportunities and collaborate on detailed account planning with account teams
  5. Create technical content (reference architectures, demos, etc.) to share with users as well as speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Skills

Required

  • 4 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 1 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 French and English

Nice to have

  • A background in payments systems and e-commerce solutions is a plus but not a requirement.