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This executive owns the end-to-end 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.\nThey 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.\nEssential Responsibilities:\nPlatform & Infrastructure Strategy\nDefine and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization’s product roadmap and growth.\nOwn the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.\nEstablish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.\nDrive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.\nArchitecture Leadership\nOwn enterprise-level application and platform architecture.\nDefine standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.\nEnsure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.\nPartner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.\nProduct Operating Model Enablement\nEnable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.\nPartner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.\nEnsure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.\nDevOps & Engineering Enablement\nOwn DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.\nDrive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.\nLead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.\nBuild a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.\nReliability, Security, & Scalability\nEnsure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.\nPartner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.\nEstablish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.\nCore Leadership Competencies:\nStrategic Mindset\nLeads long-term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth.\nBridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.\nEnsures Accountability\nOwns end-to-end architecture, platform, and DevOps delivery.\nSets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence\nBuilds Effective Teams (Builds & Coaches Effective Leadership Teams)\nBuilds and develops high-performing engineering and platform teams.\nCoaches leaders and fosters a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.\nCustomer Focus (Enterprise Level)\nEnables product squads to deliver customer value quickly and safely.\nProvides scalable platforms, tools, and reusable components that improve customer outcomes.\nCultivates Innovation\nDrives adoption of internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure.\nBuilds a developer-centric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams.\nDecision Quality\nMakes high-impact architectural and technical decisions for scale, security, and reliability.\nPrioritizes infrastructure and tooling investments to maximize delivery velocity and stability.\nCommunicates Effectively\nAligns with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and Data leadership.\nCommunicates complex technical strategies with clarity and executive impact.\nComplex Ecosystem Delivery\nOrchestrates delivery across infrastructure, architecture, DevOps/SRE, and platform domains.\nLeads large-scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations.\nQualifications:\nExtensive experience (12+ years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership, including leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.\nProven track record building and scaling cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and modern product operating models.\nDeep technical expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, container orchestration, observability, and API/service architectures.\nStrong strategic and communication skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and align diverse stakeholders.\nDemonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams and driving developer experience and productivity in fast-paced environments.\nPreferred:\nExperience with SaaS or large-scale digital platforms, internal developer platforms, and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.\nFamiliarity with product-led development and agile squad models.\nThis position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future and you must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office.\nVerra Mobility Values\n\nAn ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:\nOwn 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.\nDo What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.\nChoose 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.\n 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.\nWith your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company. Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice\nVerra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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