Enterprise Architect

Overview

Founding member of Zip's Enterprise Architecture team, standing up the EA function end-to-end and acting as the senior technical voice on strategic enterprise pursuits.

What you'll do

• Act as the senior technical voice on strategic pursuits, leading discovery with customer CTOs, CIOs, and Chief Procurement Officers and closing the architectural gap between their landscape and Zip.
• Create foundational EA assets, including customer system landscape templates, reference architectures, integration capability matrices, security and compliance packets, and objection response libraries.
• Lead the technical story on how Zip integrates with SAP (ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba), Oracle, Workday, Netsuite, Coupa, and adjacent systems.
• Translate customer landscapes into credible integration plans using Zip's proprietary middleware.
• Translate customer requirements into clear product inputs and influence roadmap prioritization with evidence.
• Coach Solution Engineers and Account Executives on technical positioning, objection handling, and executive-level architectural conversations.
• Partner with Sales, Solution Engineering, and Product, and work directly with the Global SE leader.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, pre-sales engineering, or product roles at B2B SaaS, iPaaS, or ERP / system-of-record vendors.
• Knowledge of the full intake-to-pay lifecycle and how data moves between systems.
• Strong command of the ERP ecosystem, including APIs, data models, and integration patterns across SAP (Ariba, S/4HANA, ECC), Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, and others.
• Hands-on fluency with integration architecture and middleware, including iPaaS (MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato), REST APIs, event-driven patterns, and ETL.
• Proven success selling into or implementing at Fortune 500 customers.
• Track record of owning security reviews and PoCs at enterprise scale.
• Comfort operating as the senior technical voice in a room with CIOs, CFOs, and CPOs.

Nice to have

• Experience standing up a function, team, or regional practice from the ground up.
• Experience at a category-defining, high-growth SaaS company or Big 4 Consulting.
• TOGAF Certified.

Details

• Remote, Canada.