TL;DR
VP, Product Platform & Engineering: Leading the strategy, architecture, and delivery of foundational technology platforms that power our products and product operating model with an accent on building a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform ecosystem. Focus on accelerating product innovation while ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Location: Must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office in Chicago, Illinois
Company
Verra Mobility delivers smart mobility solutions that make driving safer and easier.
What you will do
- Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy.
- Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
- Enable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model.
- Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
- Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
- Build and lead high-performing teams across Platform Engineering, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, DevOps / SRE, and Architecture.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership.
- 5+ years leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
- Strong experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Microservices and distributed architectures, and CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
- Must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office.
- This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting SaaS or large-scale digital platforms.
- Experience implementing platform engineering or internal developer platforms.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
Culture & Benefits
- Values include Own It, Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, and Win Together.
- Focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes.
- Champion integrity and good character.
- Believe in growing and inspiring people together.