Zip is a San Francisco-based AI-powered procurement orchestration company that helps organizations manage purchasing from initial request through payment. Its platform includes Intake-to-Procure and Procure-to-Pay solutions for automating purchase requests, coordinating vendor relationships, and improving visibility into organizational spending. Zip serves businesses across sectors including life sciences, financial services, and technology, with a focus on making procurement more efficient and easier to manage at scale.
Enterprise Architect, Procurement Integrations (Canada Remote)
Shape pre-sales architecture for Zip’s AI-powered enterprise procurement platform. Lead integrations, strategic pursuits, and technical discovery with enterprise customers across Canada.
Description
- Serve as the senior technical lead on strategic sales pursuits.
- Guide technical discovery with customer CTOs, CIOs, and Chief Procurement Officers.
- Align customer technology environments with Zip’s architecture.
- Develop core enterprise architecture resources, including system landscape templates, reference architectures, integration matrices, security and compliance materials, and objection responses.
- Lead integration strategy for SAP, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, Coupa, and related systems.
- Turn customer system landscapes into practical integration plans using Zip’s proprietary middleware.
- Convert customer needs into product feedback and help set roadmap priorities.
- Coach Solution Engineers and Account Executives on technical positioning, objection handling, and executive architecture discussions.
- Work with Sales, Solution Engineering, and Product to present Zip to major brands.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, pre-sales engineering, or product roles at B2B SaaS, iPaaS, or ERP and system-of-record vendors.
- Knowledge of the intake-to-pay lifecycle and how data flows between systems.
- Strong understanding of APIs, data models, and integration patterns across SAP (Ariba, S/4HANA, ECC), Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, and other ERP systems.
- Practical fluency with iPaaS platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, or Workato, as well as REST APIs, event-driven patterns, and ETL.
- Demonstrated success selling to or implementing solutions for Fortune 500 customers.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale security reviews and proofs of concept.
- Confidence serving as the senior technical voice with CIOs, CFOs, and CPOs.
- Experience building a function, team, or regional practice from the ground up is preferred.
- Experience at a high-growth, category-defining SaaS company or with a Big Four consulting firm is preferred.
- TOGAF certification is preferred.
- Legally authorized to work in Canada.
Benefits
- Startup equity.
- Health, vision, and dental coverage.
- Commuter benefit.
- Team-building events and happy hours.
- Apple equipment and a home office budget.