VP, Product Platform & Engineering
Listed on 2026-09-13
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IT/Tech
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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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, Dev Ops/SRE, and platform domains.
- Leads large-scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations.
- 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, Dev Ops/SRE, container orchestration,…
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