[Remote] VP, Product Platform & Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Verra Mobility is seeking a Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of their technology platforms. This role involves overseeing the end-to-end architecture across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and DevOps to enable product squads in building and deploying customer solutions efficiently.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Leads long‑term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth
- Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement
- Owns end‑to‑end architecture, platform, and DevOps delivery
- Sets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence
- Builds and develops high‑performing engineering and platform teams
- Coaches leaders and fosters a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning
- Enables product squads to deliver customer value quickly and safely
- Provides scalable platforms, tools, and reusable components that improve customer outcomes
- Drives adoption of internal developer platforms and self‑service infrastructure
- Builds a developer‑centric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams
- Makes high‑impact architectural and technical decisions for scale, security, and reliability
- Prioritizes infrastructure and tooling investments to maximize delivery velocity and stability
- Aligns with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and Data leadership
- Communicates complex technical strategies with clarity and executive impact
- Orchestrates delivery across infrastructure, architecture, DevOps/SRE, and platform domains
- Leads large‑scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations
Skills
- 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
- 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
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