Why Join Digital Products at Penske
Most people know Penske for our big yellow trucks. But we’re so much more than that. At Penske we have a 50-plus year history of leading the transportation and supply-chain industry, delivering world-class and award-winning technology solutions.
What most people don’t know, we are just as much a data company as we are a transportation and supply chain company. We collect and analyze billions of datapoints each year, through over 300+ advanced analytical models and integrate insights from our fleet, maintenance operations, and logistics networks to give customers a more complete view of their supply chains. That connected intelligence allows us to anticipate issues, optimize resources, and deliver reliable outcomes across transportation and logistics for our customers. Penske continues to invest in, and grow, our digital products – and we need talent at all levels to help us advance and continue to lead our industry.
While data is very important, the key to our success is our people. You’ll work alongside great people and on really cool projects. Ultimately, you’ll help develop and ensure our technology solutions keep our company and our customers moving forward.
Position Summary:
This role sits within the Digital Products organization and is responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting digital platforms and SaaS-based solutions. The position oversees key technical functions including infrastructure engineering, data platform engineering, and integration engineering, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and optimized for performance and uptime.
The leader in this role partners closely with Enterprise IT teams that own core system functionality, requiring strong architectural awareness and the ability to influence without direct ownership. This role serves as a critical connector between digital product delivery and enterprise platforms, ensuring seamless integration, operational stability, and continuous optimization of systems supporting customer-facing and internal digital experiences.
Success in this role requires a balance of strategic architecture leadership, hands-on technical depth, and strong people leadership, with a focus on driving system reliability, performance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, always-on environment.
This position is based at Penske Corporate Offices in Reading, PA. This is an office first position, in office four days a week.
Major Responsibilities:
Enterprise & Digital Architecture:
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Digital Products and Enterprise IT to translate business strategy into scalable system and architecture solutions
• Define and maintain a technical systems model aligned to digital product and SaaS strategies
• Establish and evolve architecture roadmaps, including integration patterns, platform capabilities, and shared services
• Provide architectural guidance across infrastructure, data, and integration domains to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Act as a key liaison between Digital Product teams and Enterprise IT to ensure alignment, reuse, and scalability
Systems & Application Architecture:
• Lead architecture and solution design efforts across digital platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
• Guide engineering teams on best practices for system design, integration, and application architecture
• Partner with teams to troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions
• Drive standardization and governance across systems while enabling flexibility for product innovation
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise tollgates, standards, and security requirements
Reliability, Optimization & Operations:
• Own system reliability, uptime, and performance across digital product platforms
• Establish and drive strategies for monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue resolution
• Continuously identify opportunities to optimize system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Lead efforts to minimize downtime and improve end-user experience across digital systems
• Promote a culture of operational excellence and accountability
Technology, CI/CD & DevSecOps:
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and DevSecOps across teams
• Partner with engineering, operations, and security teams to improve automation and reduce manual processes
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, platforms, and deployment strategies (cloud, hybrid, etc.)
• Drive continuous improvement in Agile practices, engineering standards, and delivery efficiency
• Ensure alignment with enterprise tools, platforms, and technology strategies
People & Team Leadership:
• Lead and develop a team that includes infrastructure, data platform, and integration engineers
• Build a high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive team environment focused on innovation and accountability
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members to grow technical and leadership capabilities
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and development plans
• Manage vendor and partner relationships as needed
Project & Delivery Leadership:
• Oversee delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives supporting digital product platforms
• Ensure clear project planning, prioritization, and execution aligned to business objectives
• Drive accountability for timelines, quality, and outcomes across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Partner with product and business leaders to align technical solutions with customer and operational needs
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline processes and improve delivery efficiency
Performance Testing & Engineering Excellence:
• Define and lead application and system performance testing strategies
• Establish best practices for performance, scalability, and reliability across platforms
• Partner with QA and engineering teams to ensure consistent testing frameworks and standards
• Identify and address performance risks proactively
• Other projects as assigned by leadership
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience required
• 10+ years of experience in system architecture, including infrastructure, data platforms, and integrations, with exposure to digital and SaaS environments preferred
• 5+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams in a cross-functional, enterprise IT environment
• Proven experience architecting, building, and delivering highly scalable, enterprise-wide software solutions across complex, multi-project environments
• Deep expertise in cloud and modern architecture, including IaaS, PaaS, cloud-native and multi-cloud architecture, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
• Strong experience with: Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift), API gateways, service mesh, and modern service-to-service communication, Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps principles, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation
• Strong technical knowledge of software development and architecture
• Experience with enterprise and cloud database technologies
• Ensure compliance with industry standards such as PCI DSS, SOX & GDPR
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business and IT stakeholders to deliver technology solutions that drive meaningful business value
• Experience managing global or offsite teams and fostering diverse, high-performing, and collaborative work environments
• Strong experience in application lifecycle management, including production support and issue resolution
• Solid project management capabilities with experience leading large-scale, complex initiatives
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships across all levels of the organization
• Strong process orientation with the ability to drive continuous improvement and challenge the status quo
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop talent while promoting innovation and new ideas
• Ability to make sound decisions aligned with organizational goals in a fast-paced environment
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required
Physical Requirements:
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To Learn More
• About Penske’s Digital Products: https://www.pensketruckleasing.com/digital-experience/
• About Penske: https://www.gopenske.com/our-company/
About Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions
Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions is a premier global transportation provider that delivers essential and innovative transportation, logistics and technology services to help companies and people move forward. With headquarters in Reading, PA, Penske and its associates are driven by a dedication to excellence and a commitment to customer success. Visit Go Penske to learn more.
Job Category: Executive
Job Function: Marketing & Communications
Job Family: General Administration
Address: 100 Gundy Drive
Primary Location: US-PA-Reading
Employer: Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.
Req ID: 2604215
We’re more than just the bright yellow trucks you see on highways and backroads all over the U.S. and Canada. We’re a winning team of 43,000 associates who help move lives and businesses forward. Our team of experts:
- Operate and maintain a fleet of more than 420,000 vehicles at 780 locations in North America
- Lease trucks to hundreds of local and national businesses
- Rent trucks to consumers and customers at our 2,500 rental locations
- Provide supply chain solutions for some of the world’s leading brands in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, healthcare and retail industries, plus more.
We’re committed to delivering the best customer experience through personalized and excellent service, and the latest innovations. We're more than you realize.
Sustainability
Penske is committed to managing our environmental impacts everywhere we do business by:
- Achieving 100 percent compliance with local, state and federal environmental regulations.
- Participating in the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport partnership to improve fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, and improve energy security.
- Working with an independent third-party consulting firm to perform a global gas inventory, which measures our carbon footprint – from the natural gas and electricity we use to operate our locations to fuel and refrigerants we use to run our fleet.
- Proudly supporting the EPA’s Green Power Partnership to utilize renewable energy as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use.
- Participating in a waste management program designed to minimize waste generation and ensure proper disposal of used oil, oil filters and antifreeze; parts washer solvent; batteries; and scrap metals.
Community
Penske’s bright yellow trucks are a beacon of hope when disasters strike, working with major relief agencies during national emergencies. Our associates go the extra mile for their communities every day to volunteer their time, effort and resources to nonprofit organizations.
Diversity and Inclusion
Penske supports a work environment that is diverse, inclusive and respectful, so we can draw from the talents, backgrounds and varied perspectives of all associates. We promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace through a variety of efforts, including:
- Diversity and Inclusion Council
- Diversity recruiting efforts
- Mentoring program
- Affinity groups
- Supplier Diversity
Penske Hires Veterans
Penske thanks military personnel and veterans for your service to the United States and for the sacrifice you have made to ensure our safety and freedom. We appreciate the values, work ethic and leadership skills veterans bring as associates to our teams. Penske is actively recruiting and hiring veterans nationwide. We seek high-performance people with a deep passion for customer service and high ethical standards. Penske is committed to hiring veterans, active Guard and Reserve personnel. Our focused efforts began in 2009 when we signed the Statement of Support for the Guard and Reserve. In each of the last few years, veterans represented over 9% of all Penske new hires.
Penske has programs dedicated to helping you find your next mission or transition from the military and join our team. Many of our veterans actively volunteer their time to mentor servicemen and women transitioning out of the military and into the civilian workforce, providing guidance on careers and overall recommendations for a successful transition.
In 2022, Penske launched the Veterans Business Resource Group with chapters across the nation and nearly 2,500 members. The group is open to all Penske veterans and veteran allies, providing valuable opportunities for career growth, networking, community outreach and mentorship while supporting business development.
Management Trainee Program
The foundation for winning in business, whatever path you choose, is right here at Penske. In our Sales and Operations Management Trainee Program, you'll collaborate with smart, driven colleagues. You'll move lives and businesses forward. You'll grow far beyond the basics because we give you the freedom to find innovative new ways to solve problems and make important business decisions. As a management trainee, you will work in a fast-paced environment. You will help our customers have the best possible experience. You will generate new leads to help us grow. And you’ll do it while enjoying ongoing personalized training and coaching in sales and operations. Our top performers can achieve more than one promotion a year, especially when open to relocation. After completing the Management Trainee Program, you will take the next step in your career at Penske by becoming an assistant rental manager. In this role, you will continue to provide excellent customer service, think fast to solve problems and learn every step of the way.
Corporate Summer Internship Program
Penske’s Corporate Summer Internship Program is a 12-week paid internship at our headquarters in Green Hills, Pennsylvania. As an intern, you will work in a department that aligns with your career goals. In addition to the valuable work experience you will gain, you will participate in events centered on the program's core elements: professional development, networking and community service.
- Participate in training programs that will give you the necessary skills to get ahead of the competition.
- Network with other professionals to develop your interpersonal communication skills and open career doors of opportunity.
- Meet our executive leaders. They will give you the advice you need to propel your career.
- Volunteer your time, talent and efforts through intern community service projects.