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Founding Enterprise Architect at Zip | London

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Hybrid Full-time

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

What You’ll DoLead Strategic Deal Engagement: Serve as the senior technical lead for key pursuits, conducting discovery sessions with customer CTOs, CIOs, and Chief Procurement Officers to bridge the architectural gaps between their systems and Zip. Establish the EA Function: Develop essential assets including system landscape templates, reference architectures, integration capability matrices, compliance documentation, and objection response libraries, setting the standard for EA involvement in deals. Oversee System Integration Narrative: Craft the technical narrative detailing how Zip integrates with SAP (ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba), Oracle, Workday, Netsuite, Coupa, and related systems, ensuring alignment with customer environments and integration capabilities.

About the job

Join Zip as a Founding Enterprise Architect

At Zip, we are redefining enterprise procurement with our innovative AI platform, designed for seamless collaboration between humans and agents. We empower organizations to optimize procurement processes across teams, tools, and suppliers, enabling them to accelerate innovation.

Our trusted partners include industry leaders such as T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, and Mars, who have collectively saved over $8 billion while managing over $500 billion in expenditures. Our team comprises seasoned professionals from notable companies such as Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, alongside former procurement executives from United Health, Sanofi, and NASA.

Supported by top-tier investors including Adams Street, Alkeon, and Y Combinator, Zip has successfully raised $371 million, achieving a valuation of $2.2 billion. We are proud to be recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and LinkedIn’s Top Startups.

Your Role

This is a pioneering position where you will be the inaugural Enterprise Architect in the EMEA region, responsible for establishing the function from the ground up. You will develop playbooks, reference architectures, and technical discovery processes that will serve as a foundation for future Enterprise Architects.

Engaging with our most significant strategic initiatives, you will collaborate directly with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients who operate within SAP-dominated environments and complex multi-entity structures. Partnering with the Global SE leader, you will work closely with Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, and Customer Success teams to shape Zip’s approach to selling and delivering solutions across Europe for years to come.

This is a hybrid position based in our London office.

About Zip

Zip is an innovative AI-driven platform revolutionizing enterprise procurement, designed to enhance collaboration and efficiency in resource management. Our commitment to transforming procurement processes has earned us the trust of leading global enterprises. Join us to be part of a groundbreaking journey in the world of procurement.

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