Founding Enterprise Architect

ZipHQ, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Startup equity

Health, vision & dental coverage

Catered lunches & dinners

Commuter benefit

Team building events

Unlimited PTO

Apple equipment plus home office stipend

5% Employer Pension Contribution

Job summary

ZipHQ, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Greater London. In this hybrid role, you will establish the EA function, engage with Fortune 500 clients, and lead integration narratives with major ERP systems. You will have 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, with strong knowledge of the ERP ecosystem. The position includes competitive perks like startup equity, health coverage, catered meals, and unlimited PTO. The role requires about 30% travel across EMEA for customer engagement and key events.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or pre-sales engineering.
• Deep domain knowledge in the intake-to-pay lifecycle and data movement.
• Strong command of integration patterns across multiple ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical voice on strategic pursuits.
• Create foundational assets for the EA function.
• Lead narratives on how Zip integrates with major ERP systems.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Pre-sales engineering

Integration architecture

Hands-on fluency with middleware

Knowledge of ERP systems

Strong command of the ERP ecosystem

Experience with Fortune 500 customers

Education

TOGAF/Zachman/IBM Certified

Tools

MuleSoft

Boomi

Workato

Job description

About Zip

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before. The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA. Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.

Your Role

This is a founding role. You will be the first Enterprise Architect on the ground in EMEA, standing up the function end-to-end: the playbooks, the reference architectures, the technical discovery motion, and the deal patterns that every future EA will inherit.

You’ll personally engage on our most strategic pursuits across the business - Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 prospects with SAP-dominant landscapes, complex multi-entity structures, and e-invoicing mandates that don’t exist in other regions. You’ll work directly with the Global SE leader and partner with Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, and Customer Success leaders. What you build here will shape how Zip sells and delivers across Europe for years.

Please note this is a hybrid role out of our London office.

What you’ll do

• Win the deals that define the region: 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.

• Build the EA function from zero to one: Create the foundational assets - customer system landscape templates, reference architectures, integration capability matrices, security & compliance packets, objection response libraries - and set the bar for how EA shows up in deals.

• Own the system integration narrative: Lead the technical story on how Zip integrates with SAP (ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba), Oracle, Workday, Netsuite, Coupa, and adjacent systems. You are responsible for translating the customer landscapes into credible integration plans using our proprietary middleware.

• Navigate EMEA-specific complexity: Guide customers through e-invoicing mandates (Peppol, France Chorus Pro, Italy SDI, Germany’s B2B mandate), GDPR, DORA, and multi-entity/multi-currency rollouts.

• Bridge GTM and Product: Translate customer requirements into clear product inputs. Influence roadmap prioritization with evidence, not opinion.

• Enable the field: Coach Solution Engineers and Account Executives on technical positioning, objection handling, and executive-level architectural conversations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, pre-sales engineering, or product roles at B2B SaaS, iPaaS, or ERP / system-of-record vendors.

• Deep domain knowledge: Knowledgeable about the full intake-to-pay lifecycle and how data moves between systems

• Strong command of the ERP ecosystem: You understand 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: iPaaS (MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato), REST APIs, event‑driven patterns, ETL.

• Proven success selling into or implementing at Fortune 500 / FTSE 100 customers across multiple EMEA geographies.

• TOGAF/Zachman/IBM Certified along with EA.

• Track record of owning RFPs, 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.

• Working knowledge of EMEA e‑invoicing mandates and regulatory regimes (GDPR, DORA)

• Experience at a category‑defining, high‑growth SaaS company or Big 4 Consulting Experience.

• Multilingual - French, German, or Spanish a plus.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

• Start‑up equity

• Health, vision & dental coverage

• Catered lunches & dinners for in‑office employees

• Commuter benefit

• Team building events & happy hours

• Unlimited PTO

• Apple equipment plus home office stipend

• 5% Employer Pension Contribution

Travel

This role requires approximately 30% travel across EMEA to meet with strategic prospects, customers, and partners, and to join key industry events.

We're looking to hire Zippers and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!