VP, Product Platform & Engineering

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 20 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Culture:

Verra Mobility Corporation is a dynamic entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core valuesDo Whats Right Choose Courage Over Comfort Win Together and Own Itin everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow both organically and through acquisition to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action customer focus teamwork drive for results and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

The Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering will lead the strategy architecture and delivery of the technology platforms that enable the companys product operating model. This executive owns the endtoend 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 developerfriendly platform ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining reliability performance and operational excellence. As a handson 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:

Platform & Infrastructure Strategy

Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organizations 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 organizations 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 longterm platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth.
Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.

Ensures Accountability

Owns endtoend 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 highperforming 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 selfservice infrastructure.
Builds a developercentric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams.

Decision Quality

Makes highimpact 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 largescale cloud distributed systems and platform transformations.

Qualifications:

Extensive experience (12 years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership including leading largescale engineering or platform organizations.
Proven track record building and scaling cloudnative platforms distributed systems and modern product operating models.
Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms microservices InfrastructureasCode 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 highperforming engineering teams and driving developer experience and productivity in fastpaced environments.

Preferred:

Experience with SaaS or largescale digital platforms internal developer platforms and modernizing legacy systems to cloudnative architectures.
Familiarity with productled 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 Whats 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.

Required Experience:

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Culture:Verra Mobility Corporation is a dynamic entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core valuesDo Whats Right Choose Courage Over Comfort Win Together and Own Itin everything it does for its customers and team members. The compa...