VP, Software Delivery & AI-Driven Platform Modernization

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Verra Mobility, based in the United States, seeks a Vice President of Software Delivery to drive enterprise delivery, platform modernization, and governance across the business unit. You will align with Product, Infrastructure, AI, PMO, and Security to standardize delivery models, boost scalability, and improve reliability; lead AI-enabled practices to raise productivity.

This senior leader will oversee KPI governance, cross-functional collaboration, and a transformation toward platform-oriented

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering leadership experience across multiple teams or business units.
• Proven success leading platform transformation, modernization, and governance across legacy and modern systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architecture and delivery peers on enterprise vision and strategy for Software Delivery across all Business Units.
• Own delivery KPIs for predictability, quality, operational stability, and production health.
• Lead platform consolidation and modernization into reusable services, APIs, and common engineering patterns.
• Establish engineering standards for CI/CD, code review, automated testing, security scanning, release readiness, rollback, observability, and incident learning.
• Drive measurable improvement in deployment frequency, lead time, defect escape rate, change failure rate, incident trends, and delivery predictability.
• Ensure enterprise architecture standards and AI directives are adopted across products and squads.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, DevOps, Database, Security, AI, PMO, Operations, QA COE, and Support to align enterprise initiatives with delivery execution.
• Oversee Daily Management, KPI reviews, release readiness, production health reviews, and PSR execution across Business Units.
• Drive AI-enabled engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity, test automation, defect reduction, documentation, incident analysis, and operational insight.
• Establish responsible AI usage standards that balance productivity with security, compliance, maintainability, and quality.
• Represent Software Delivery in executive customer, partner, and stakeholder discussions.
• Build and coach high-performing delivery leadership teams, including BU leaders, Domain Software Managers, and Tech Leads.
• Oversee CapEx and OpEx alignment, resource planning, and platform/tooling investments tied to delivery velocity and stability.

Skills

Software Delivery Leadership

Platform Modernization

AI/ML in Engineering

Executive Communication

KPI Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Security scanning

Observability tooling

Job description

Verra Mobility, based in the United States, seeks a Vice President of Software Delivery to drive enterprise delivery, platform modernization, and governance across the business unit. You will align with Product, Infrastructure, AI, PMO, and Security to standardize delivery models, boost scalability, and improve reliability; lead AI-enabled practices to raise productivity.

This senior leader will oversee KPI governance, cross-functional collaboration, and a transformation toward platform-oriented