VP, Platform Engineering: Cloud-Native Identity

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package

Unlimited vacation

Volunteer time off

12 paid holidays

Medical, dental, vision

401K matching

Job summary

Experian Software Solutions (ESS), the global product and engineering function, delivers Ascend Platform solutions combining data, analytics, AI, decisioning, and fraud capabilities.

The Vice President, Platform Engineering will oversee Identity, Access & SSO, Portal & Design System, Observability, Metrics & Monitoring, and Billing & Metering, leading a 100+ person global team and driving enterprise platform modernization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leadership experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, identity and access management, or technology product management, including leading large-scale global technology organizations.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud platforms and shared technology capabilities at enterprise scale (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong ability to influence senior executives and secure stakeholder commitment, translating complex technical strategies into compelling business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success mobilizing multiple business units, engineering teams, and P&L owners to drive adoption of shared platform capabilities and enterprise-wide transformation without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of identity, access, observability, and platform technologies, with the strategic judgment to determine capabilities to build, buy, scale, or retire.
• Experience operating in regulated industries, with governance accountability for platform engineering standards, identity and access architecture, and design system frameworks across regions and business units.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the technology strategy for Identity, Access & SSO, Portal & Design System, Observability, Metrics & Monitoring, and Billing & Metering, scaling platform adoption globally through cloud migration, workload modernization, and platform standardization to enable growth, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the identity and access strategy underpinning ESS Technology's customer-facing Identity Management capability, driving the development and governance of SSO, RBAC, and authentication infrastructure across products and platforms.
• Partner with product, engineering, and regional leaders to prioritize technology investments and drive innovation, applying disciplined engineering standards to ensure platform investments are aligned to strategic business outcomes and deliver measurable ROI.
• Lead enterprise platform modernization initiatives, evolving legacy environments into secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures that support long-term business growth, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Establish enterprise platform engineering standards, design system and portal strategy, and developer-facing tooling that accelerate engineering productivity and enable scalable, reusable technology capabilities across the business.
• Build and evolve the observability and billing infrastructure that other teams instrument against and rely on, including monitoring, tracing, metering, and monetization plumbing, while evaluating and scaling emerging platform technologies across the organization.
• Partner with executive leaders across Technology, Product, Security, and regional organizations to align platform investments with growth priorities.
• Shape enterprise platform strategy and technology governance by actively contributing to key leadership forums. Act as an ambassador for Experian's platform engineering capability, enhancing the company's profile and influence within the broader technology ecosystem.
• Engageregularly with Operating Committee level leaders across the business, including regional Product senior leaders and regional CTOs across the US, UK, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America, requiring sustained senior stakeholder management across geographies and reporting lines.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Identity & access management

Observability

Platform engineering standards

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Experian Software Solutions (ESS), the global product and engineering function, delivers Ascend Platform solutions combining data, analytics, AI, decisioning, and fraud capabilities.

The Vice President, Platform Engineering will oversee Identity, Access & SSO, Portal & Design System, Observability, Metrics & Monitoring, and Billing & Metering, leading a 100+ person global team and driving enterprise platform modernization.