VP, Product Platform & Engineering

VP, Product Platform & Engineering

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The Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the technology platforms that enable the company's product operating model. This executive owns the end-to-end architecture across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and DevOps, ensuring that product squads/trios are fully enabled to build, deploy, and scale customer solutions with speed and autonomy.

They will develop a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining reliability, performance, and operational excellence. As a hands-on technical leader, the VP will bridge product strategy and engineering execution, providing the architecture, tooling, and infrastructure necessary to support modern product development and deliver scalable, resilient technology solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization's product roadmap and growth.
• Own the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
• Establish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
• Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.

Architecture Leadership

• Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
• Define standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.
• Ensure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.

Product Operating Model Enablement

• Enable the organization's product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.
• Ensure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Drive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.
• Lead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
• Build a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.

Reliability, Security, & Scalability

• Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.
• Establish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.

Core Leadership Competencies:

Strategic Mindset

• Leads long-term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth.
• Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.

Ensures Accountability

• Owns end-to-end architecture, platform, and DevOps delivery.
• Sets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence

Builds Effective Teams (Builds & Coaches Effective Leadership Teams)

• Builds and develops high-performing engineering and platform teams.
• Coaches leaders and fosters a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

Customer Focus (Enterprise Level)

• Enables product squads to deliver customer value quickly and safely.
• Provides scalable platforms, tools, and reusable components that improve customer outcomes.

Cultivates Innovation

• Drives adoption of internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure.
• Builds a developer-centric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams.

Decision Quality

• Makes high-impact architectural and technical decisions for scale, security, and reliability.
• Prioritizes infrastructure and tooling investments to maximize delivery velocity and stability.

Communicates Effectively

• Aligns with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and Data leadership.
• Communicates complex technical strategies with clarity and executive impact.

Complex Ecosystem Delivery

• Orchestrates delivery across infrastructure, architecture, DevOps/SRE, and platform domains.
• Leads large-scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience (12+ years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership, including leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and modern product operating models.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, container orchestration, observability, and API/service architectures.
• Strong strategic and communication skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and align diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams and driving developer experience and productivity in fast-paced environments.

Preferred:

• Experience with SaaS or large-scale digital platforms, internal developer platforms, and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with product-led development and agile squad models.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future and you must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office.

Verra Mobility Values An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What's Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.

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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.