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
Company Overview
Verra Mobility provides smart mobility, traffic enforcement, and fleet solutions that improve road safety and transportation efficiency. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.verramobility.com.