Global Payments Orchestration Architect

Stripe, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a payments optimization specialist in the London area to lead design and delivery of complex payment architectures. You will work with sales, pre-sales, and product teams to advance deals, educate engineering on market trends, and build scalable, reusable assets that improve conversion and reduce costs.

With 7+ years in payments, fintech, or related roles, you will influence Stripe's roadmap and customer outcomes globally while traveling up to 25% to engage with major

Qualifications

• 7+ years of payments/fintech experience in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role.
• Strong knowledge of global payment methods including cards, wallets, bank options, and BNPLs.
• Experience designing optimization architectures for large enterprises with multi-PSP orchestration.
• Knowledge of authorization rate levers: local acquiring, tokenization, 3DS, smart retries.
• Strong software engineering and API integration understanding.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to collaborate across business partners in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Optimized Checkout, Adaptive Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of global payment optimization, including local acquiring and intelligent routing.
• Develop multi-PSP and payment orchestration architectures and integration patterns with Stripe.
• Advise customers on BNPL strategy and regulatory considerations across checkout and billing flows.
• Share best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization to improve efficiency.
• Create reference architectures for end-to-end payment infrastructure with Stripe at the core.
• Partner with Payments product sales on complex OCS and Orchestration opportunities and key relationships.
• Serve as a Voice of the Customer to influence product priorities and roadmap.
• Identify trends in payment orchestration and cost optimization for actionable insights.
• Escalate complex technical issues to Stripe's engineering team for resolution.
• Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation.
• Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.
• Approximately 25% travel is anticipated.

Skills

Payments optimization

Global payments

Pre-sales

Solutions architecture

BNPL integrations

Client relationships

Technical communication

Tools

API integration patterns

Job description

Stripe is seeking a payments optimization specialist in the London area to lead design and delivery of complex payment architectures. You will work with sales, pre-sales, and product teams to advance deals, educate engineering on market trends, and build scalable, reusable assets that improve conversion and reduce costs.

With 7+ years in payments, fintech, or related roles, you will influence Stripe's roadmap and customer outcomes globally while traveling up to 25% to engage with major