VP Developer Platform Engineering - Remote at Experian
Costa Mesa, CA
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Jul 30, 2026
Costa Mesa, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A VP-level people-management role responsible for setting the strategy, roadmap, and governance of Experian's enterprise developer platform and AI-powered engineering capabilities globally. The leader will own CI/CD standards, cloud-native infrastructure, AI developer tooling adoption, and engineering platform performance across a large, matrixed organization, managing through senior leaders and overseeing budgets and vendor relationships.
Principal level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 610 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 130–1,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting references a base pay range but does not include the actual figures — the range was omitted from the text provided.
Harness and GitHub Actions are listed as interchangeable CI/CD platform options ('and/or'), so each is captured with the other as an alternative.
Claude Code and MCP protocol are explicitly called out as required implementation-level familiarity — unusual specificity for a VP role, but clearly gated in the qualifications section.
Security tooling concepts (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, SBOM, artifact signing) are listed as required at a 'working familiarity' level sufficient to direct integration work; secrets scanning and artifact signing are concepts rather than named tools, so only the named/acronymed items (SAST, SCA, SBOM) are captured as skills.
The role requires 8+ years in technology roles overall and 5+ years in senior leadership; the overall years minimum is set to 8 (the broader gate). The 5-year senior leadership requirement is a role-level gate not tied to a specific technology.
No specific cloud provider is named as required — the posting says 'at least one major provider', so cloud-native infrastructure is captured generically rather than as AWS/Azure/GCP.
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