VP, Product Platform & Engineering

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a dynamic, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values — Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It — in 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.

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 Dev Ops, 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.

• Platform & Infrastructure Strategy
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Dev Ops & Engineering Enablement
• Own Dev Ops 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 long-term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth.
  • Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.
• Ensures Accountability
  • Owns end-to-end architecture, platform, and Dev Ops delivery.
  • Sets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Builds Effective Teams (Builds & Coaches Effective Leadership Teams)
  • Builds and develops high-performing 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…