VP, Product Platform & Engineering

Verra Mobility; Arizona; On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Verra Mobility seeks a visionary leader for the role of Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering to drive strategy and delivery of the company’s technology platforms. You will own end-to-end architecture across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and DevOps, empowering product squads to build, deploy, and scale customer solutions with speed and autonomy.

You will architect a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform ecosystem that accelerates innovation while ensuring

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, observability, APIs and service architectures.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to align stakeholders with technical roadmaps.
• Proven experience building high-performing engineering teams and improving developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy aligned with product roadmap and growth.
• Own architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities including infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
• Establish scalable, secure cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
• Drive adoption of internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure.
• Provide architecture frameworks and tooling to support rapid, reliable product development.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure alignment and enable squads to deliver quickly.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud-native platforms

CI/CD & DevOps

Microservices architecture

SRE/Observability

Architectural strategy

Leadership & communication

Security & compliance

Tools

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Container orchestration

Job description

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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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.