Strategic Data Solutions Architect

Stripe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect in Chicago to drive pipeline and revenue by leveraging expertise in data platforms and analytics. You will collaborate with sales and pre-sales to design scalable data solutions, educate teams, and expand Stripe's data offerings with major customers.

You will build senior-level relationships, understand complex data architectures, and influence product roadmaps. Strong data warehouse, ETL, and BI tooling skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a technical sales, pre-sales, or solutions architecture role, focused on data platforms, analytics, or financial reporting.
• 3+ years of hands-on data warehousing and pipeline architecture (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks) and ETL/ELT tooling.
• Strong understanding of how payments and revenue data maps to financial reporting and reconciliation workflows.
• Experience with BI/analytics platforms (Looker, Tableau, Sigma, Metabase, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns, including data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe's Data products to accelerate opportunities.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and BI tooling; articulate to customers and internal teams.
• Conduct discovery of customers' data architecture and architect Stripe-based solutions.
• Advise on multi-entity and multi-currency reporting, ERP/GL integrations, and data freshness requirements.
• Create reusable assets and reference architectures for the sales/pre-sales org.
• Drive opportunities for Stripe's largest customers and manage key relationships.

Skills

Data platforms, analytics

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT tooling

BI/analytics platforms

API integration patterns

Executive-level communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Databricks

Looker

Tableau

Sigma

Metabase

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect in Chicago to drive pipeline and revenue by leveraging expertise in data platforms and analytics. You will collaborate with sales and pre-sales to design scalable data solutions, educate teams, and expand Stripe's data offerings with major customers.

You will build senior-level relationships, understand complex data architectures, and influence product roadmaps. Strong data warehouse, ETL, and BI tooling skills are essential.