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.
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.
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.
About Cat Financial
Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.
Role Definition
Provides leadership on guidance and advice on architecture designs in complex projects, resolves difficult problems and ensures that all deliverables meet high standards in quality.
Responsibilities
• Consult on best practices with junior staff in architecture planning, processes, data, infrastructure and application modeling.
• Architect solutions that align to business strategies and goals.
• Provide a systematic analysis on client requirements within the traceability framework and resolves any functional problems encountered.
• Oversee the quality of architecture project deliverables while ensuring that they are in compliance with relevant standards, processes and an enterprise view.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Expert:
• Leads in designing application architecture for core applications.
• Consults on conversion and retirement of core systems.
• Monitors industry for new approaches to applications development and implementation.
• Ensures that appropriate back-up, recovery, and contingency plans are in place for core applications.
• Conceptualizes and describes high-level data flows between core systems.
• Offers both historical and predictive perspectives on core applications.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Expert:
• Provides evidence-based recommendations by researching through credible resources.
• Displays the critical characteristics of competency, candor, and empathy in all interactions.
• Influences high-impact, high-risk, and highly complex situations.
• Creates a culture that encourages incorporating data and analytics into decision-making processes.
• Debates issues to bring the most critical points to the forefront for decision-making.
• Monitors relevant field(s) to stay current with new developments, trends, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Level Expert:
• Plays a leading role in the development of technical standards and platforms.
• Elaborates on the evolution of technical design tools, techniques and strategies.
• Demonstrates extensive experience with software design, development and deployment.
• Compares and contrasts software design and architecture of competitive products.
• Directs company-wide application software architecture design methods, tools, and practices.
• Remains current with evolving product design and development tools, techniques and materials.
Application Modernization: Knowledge of the concepts, processes and technologies of application modernization; ability to design, develop and deploy modernized applications in various business scenarios.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Creates and customizes cloud application modernization plans based on specific business requirements.
• Consults on security issues and problems regarding application migration.
• Coaches others on the modernization approach for microservice based application.
• Leads discussions on the challenges and risks in developing cloud-native based applications.
• Provides insights on complex technical problems of co-existence of legacy and new application systems.
• Compares and contrasts the benefits and drawbacks of various application modernization approaches.
Architecture Modeling: Knowledge of Architecture Modeling; ability to develop and modify enterprise architecture through conceptual, logical and physical approaches.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Consults on architecture framework design; verifies operational objectives for each framework design procedure.
• Determines corresponding indicators for each technology layer and evaluates the operational performance of each layer.
• Decides on specific roles and responsibilities of engineers within business, information and data architecture modeling.
• Coordinates materials for architecture design modeling.
• Evaluates technology product roles and strengths within the project and locates appropriate technology providers based on results.
• Interprets relevant principles for technology architecture modeling requirements from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Business Assessment: Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
Level Expert:
• Consults to others on alternative approaches and tools for business assessments and selection processes.
• Leads in more complex business assessment reviews and walkthroughs for high-impact projects.
• Develops best practices for identifying and validating opportunities, risks and benefits analysis.
• Advises others on various methods, tools and practices for business assessment.
• Monitors industry and enterprise effectiveness and experiences; initiates improvements.
• Selects and standardizes business assessment tools and techniques across multiple methodologies.
System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Designs and develops applications or technology interfaces and bridges.
• Documents existing best practices for system or technology integration processes.
• Identifies and quantifies risks of proposed alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative.
• Delivers training on major issues, interfaces, considerations and potential pitfalls and risks.
• Discusses with line areas on data, technology and application integration issues.
• Advises others in how to integrate projects across multiple technologies.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Summary Pay Range:
$135,240.00 - $237,564.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
401(k) savings plans*
Health Savings Account (HSA)*
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
Health Lifestyle Programs*
Employee Assistance Program*
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
Career Development*
Incentive bonus*
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Adoption benefits
Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.Relocation is available for this position.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
September 9, 2025 - September 16, 2025
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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