Enterprise Architect

• Enterprise Architect with deep expertise in C#, modern systems architecture, design patterns, and engineering principles to design and optimize secure, scalable platforms
• Engineering leader who fosters collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence through strategic leadership and continuous improvement
• Remote-first opportunity for US-based employees with the option to work in-person out of our Manhattan office 

Start your adventure with Zip

Become a part of Zip's Engineering team and take on exciting challenges at scale in a dynamic, test-driven development environment. If you thrive on delivering high-quality work quickly, you'll be a perfect match for our teams, who develop cloud-native software applications serving millions of customers and processing billions of dollars in payments.

We are seeking an accomplished and technically adept Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in our Enterprise Architecture team. As a technical leader, you will drive the architecture, implementation, and evolution of our platform, ensuring that our systems are secure, resilient, scalable, and optimized for peak performance. This is a builder’s role, requiring hands-on engagement and technical ownership across multiple domains. You will influence strategic decisions, lead complex projects, and serve as a mentor to product engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, security, and operational excellence.

Interesting problems you’ll get to solve

• Lead Architectural Design and Execution: Define target architectures and oversee their execution across enterprise platforms. Drive the implementation of scalable, cloud-native solutions that ensure high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and optimal performance for mission-critical business flows. Partner with engineering teams to embed resiliency patterns (e.g., autoscaling, geo-redundancy, circuit breakers) and enforce alignment with TOGAF principles and internal enterprise standards.
• Define Technical Strategy: Refine and evolve existing enterprise architecture roadmaps in line with TOGAF principles, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry trends. Adapt strategies to reflect changing technologies and priorities, guiding the effective use of platforms such as C#, SQL Server, Postgres, Azure, Kafka, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Establish and Champion Best Practices: Promote engineering principles that strengthen system resilience and service availability. Define SLO frameworks, reusable components, and observability practices to reduce operational overhead and enforce consistent standards.
• Architect Cloud-Native Solutions with Security-First Principles: Design secure, scalable cloud-native architectures that meet regulatory, industry, and internal security standards while ensuring resilience and performance.
• Enhance Observability: Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure comprehensive observability across infrastructure and applications. Establish system performance metrics and enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs) using tools like Dynatrace to ensure operational excellence.
• Mentor and Inspire Engineering Teams: Serve as a mentor for engineers. Lead training sessions, organize technical deep dives, and champion knowledge-sharing initiatives to elevate team skills and promote a collaborative engineering culture.
• Architect Cloud-Native Solutions with Security-First Principles: Design secure, scalable cloud-native architectures that meet regulatory, industry, and internal security standards while ensuring resilience and performance.
• Document and Institutionalize Knowledge: Create and maintain documentation and internal wikis to preserve architecture, process, and security knowledge, leveraging AI-optimized methods to ensure information is accurate, accessible, and continuously updated.
• Evangelize AI and Agentic AI: Promote awareness and adoption of AI and agentic AI solutions across the enterprise. Identify practical use cases, guide integration into business and technology strategies, and champion responsible, secure, and innovative applications of AI.

What you’ll bring to the team

Educational Background: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.  A graduate degree is preferred.

• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, guide teams, and inspire confidence. Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale cloud-native projects with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Engineering Experience and Expertise: 10+ years of experience in complex software engineering environments. Mastery of C#/.Net with demonstrated experience implementing complex, secure solutions. Skilled in architecting and governing engineering using best practices for maintainability and scalability. 
• Mentorship: Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams. Strong ability to foster a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture through knowledge sharing, technical mentorship, and cross-functional partnership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive alignment across engineering, product, and security teams on complex technical projects.
• AI: Experience driving adoption of AI-based development tools, and a strong understanding of their potential and limitations.
• TOGAF certification, prior architecture experience and experience in fintech are attributes of your profile that can set you apart from other candidates.

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What you’ll get in return

Zip is a place where you’ll get out what you put in. The newness of our sector means we need to move at pace and embrace change, and our promise to you when you join the team is that you’ll feel empowered and trusted to make big things happen quickly. 

We want you to feel welcome and as though you have the support to be yourself, and care for yourself at work. Because it’s important to us that you make the most of the opportunities you’ll get to grow your skills and your career, and be surrounded by smart, friendly people and leaders that have your back.

We think these are just some of the best things about being a Zipster. We will also offer you:

• Flexible working culture
• Incentive programs
• 20 days PTO every year
• Generous paid parental leave
• Leading family support policies
• 100% employer covered insurance
• Beautiful Midtown office with a casual dress code
• Learning and wellness subscription stipend
• Company-sponsored 401k match

 

The Pay Range for this position: $160,000 - $197,000 USD based on the industry benchmark for position, function, level and Zip's compensation strategies. However, actual base salary will depend on varying circumstances and individualized factors, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. 

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. 

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip is a global ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ company that gives our millions of customers simpler and fairer ways to pay. 

We are proud to be a global business built around our US and ANZ core markets working with merchant partners including Amazon, Best Buy, eBay and Uber. United by our mission, purpose and values - Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together & Change The Game - we are the next generation of payments, helping people across the globe to fearlessly take control of their financial future.

We are Zip, and we are just getting started.

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