Zip Co · 16 hours ago
Enterprise Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $190K/yr
10+ years expZip is a global 'Buy Now, Pay Later' company that provides simpler and fairer payment solutions. They are seeking an accomplished Enterprise Architect to drive the architecture, implementation, and evolution of their platform, ensuring security, scalability, and performance.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechPayments
Responsibilities
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
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
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
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
Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
Experience driving adoption of AI-based development tools
Strong understanding of AI's potential and limitations
Preferred
Graduate degree
TOGAF certification
Prior architecture experience
Experience in fintech
Benefits
Flexible working culture
Incentive programs
Unlimited PTO
Generous paid parental leave
Leading family support policies
Company-sponsored 401k match
Learning and wellness subscription stipend
Beautiful Union Square office with a casual dress code
Industry-leading, employer-sponsored insurance for you and your dependents, with several 100% Zip-covered choices available
Company
Zip Co
Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.55BKey Investors
Victory Park CapitalWestpacNational Australia Bank
2025-12-15Post Ipo Debt· $283M
2024-07-17Post Ipo Equity· $146.05M
2024-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $225M
Leadership Team
Cynthia Scott
Managing Director and Group CEO
Peter Gray
Co-founder & Global COO
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