Vice President, Software Engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering leadership experience, including 7+ years leading multiple teams or Business Units.
• Proven success leading platform transformation, modernization, consolidation, and governance across legacy and modern systems.
• Experience implementing scalable engineering governance models, Agile/Lean delivery practices, and measurable flow and quality improvements.
• Demonstrated experience deploying AI-enabled engineering practices, developer productivity tooling, or intelligent automation within software delivery organizations.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership capability.
• Successful completion of the Nlets fingerprinting background assessment.
• Technical Background
• Experience across enterprise software delivery, platform ecosystems, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Ability to evaluate platform strategy, delivery tradeoffs, architectural direction, modernization paths, AI-enabled engineering practices, and operational risk.
• Familiarity with SaaS or large-scale digital platforms, internal developer platforms, distributed systems, and legacy modernization.
• Leadership Competencies
• Strategic Mindset: Aligns delivery, platform consolidation, modernization, AI adoption, and business growth.
• Ensures Accountability: Owns enterprise delivery outcomes and creates clear accountability across BU leaders, Domain Software Managers, Tech Leads, Scrum Masters, PMO, QA COE, and Support.
• Builds Effective Teams: Develops strong delivery leaders and strengthens succession planning, coaching, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Customer Focus: Ensures delivery models improve customer outcomes, reliability, operational excellence, and predictable execution.
• Cultivates Innovation: Advances modern engineering, automation, platform capabilities, and AI-enabled productivity while maintaining governance discipline.
• Decision Quality: Balances speed, quality, reliability, security, scalability, maintainability, and business value.
• Communicates Effectively: Aligns Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Database, Security, AI, PMO, Operations, and executive stakeholders.
• Complex Ecosystem Delivery: Orchestrates execution across product, platform, infrastructure, quality, support, and operations domains.
• Success in the First 6 Months
• Establish enterprise delivery governance, KPI operating model, decision rights, Tech Lead accountability, and PMO engagement rules.
• Define platform consolidation roadmap, modernization priorities, shared service opportunities, and legacy deprecation approach.
• Improve delivery predictability and operational KPI performance quarter over quarter.
• Standardize release readiness and production health reviews across Business Units.
• Strengthen alignment with Infrastructure, DevOps, Database, Security, AI, Product, and PMO leadership.
• Launch initial AI-enabled engineering productivity initiatives with measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, automation, or operational effectiveness.
• Verra Mobility Values An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
• Own 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.
• Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Choose 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.
• 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.
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