Principal Digital Architect-Data Architect

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
JOB PURPOSE:
A Principal Digital Architect drives solutions with the core digital platform that underpins many applications that supports Cat Digital's key business domains of eCommerce, advanced condition monitoring, lead generation, service support and equipment management. The solutions will solve big data problems with over 1.4 million connected assets worldwide, advanced analytics, AI capabilities, global marketing and much more. This role is a key leader and accountable to work across the organization for both business and technical alignment to drive the required business outcomes.
JOB DUTIES:
Key areas of accountability include leading the development of Architecture Solutions for strategic Cat Digital projects and programs; developing and maintaining global technology roadmaps and application evolution plans; leading in the evaluation of new technology, information or integration standards; and developing digital strategy for a specific technical or business domain.
Responsibilities include one or more of the following:

• Provide oversight for architecture assessment and design for infrastructure, information or integration domains that provide core capabilities for the enterprise.
• Lead Architecture design of end to end enterprise integrated systems that serves multiple business functions.
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data model and metadata structures for complex projects.
• Initiate and deliver technology evaluation and recommendations.
• Develop and maintain current, planned and future state architecture blueprints.
• Lead in the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers and requirements that drive the future state architecture.

Basic Qualifications:

• Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 15 or more years of a progressive career in distributed system software engineering and architecture
• Strong demonstratable experience delivering product and/or enterprise architecture for enterprise scale solutions in public cloud or hybrid eco-systems
• At least 5 years' working experience in Cloud Technologies such as AWS & Microsoft Azure
• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to deal with sensitive issues, mentor and coach and/or persuade others on new technologies, new applications, or potential solutions.

Top candidates will have:
Understand the data platform and build new data solutions on the existing data platform. Impact analysis needs to be performed so as not to have unknown impact in other data solutions build on the platform.
• Understand the current data landscape and build new solutions on top of existing solution.
• Trouble shoots and finds solutions for technical and functional issues identified in the program/project.
• Evaluate, analyse, document and communicate business requirements to stakeholders.
• Run Architecture meetings/discussions and document the solutions on confluence. Complete the solutions and have engineering handover.
• Support the engineering team during the entire cycle of the build and deploy phases.
• Report on common sources of technical, functional issues and/or questions and make recommendations to architecture team for long term solution.
• Own and develop relationship with partners (customers, dealers, Technical Product Management, Architect teams), working with them to optimize and enhance the data products.
• Provide guidance on the technical solutions and guidance on new product like optimal database recommendations like dynamo vs Postgre, AWS options like Kinesis and Event bridge.
• Own the solutions on the Data lake (Snowflake), The solutions should be performant, secure and Cost Optimal.
• Own some of the data domains in the Data Platform i.e. Any solution on the data domain should be either worked upon or reviewed by the architect.
• Provide ROM (rough order of magnitude) for the solutions and data products.
• Based on understanding of data domains and Business requirements create reusable data products which can be used across applications and teams.
• Create/Review HLA and TA documentation with reference to a business requirement.
• Improve architecture by tracking emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements.
• Identify and solution for business critical business rules for improving the data quality in the platform.
SKILLS
Must Have:

• AWS (EMR, Glue, S3, Fargate, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, AWS EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB) , Snowflake, SQL, Python, ER Modelling.

Good to Have:

• Microservices and API knowledge

Posting Dates:
June 4, 2025 - June 17, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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