Principal Digital Architect

Career Area:
Business Technologies, 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 Summary:
Are you looking for a new challenging opportunity working in one of the most used state-of-the-art applications in Caterpillar?
We are seeking for a Principal Digital Architect to work on one of Caterpillar's state-of-the-art digital applications: Service Information System (SIS), which enable the dealer service business and aligns with enterprise goals of parts sales. If this aligns with your goals, then we are interested in talking to you
What You Will Do:

• Facilitates in application design reviews and walkthroughs.
• Creates and evaluates technical alternatives for complex applications.
• Interprets application services such as API; integrates them with technical design.
• Develops various, distinct and multiple technical application designs.
• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.
• Explores and evaluates application design considerations for multiple technologies.
• Designs each phase in the target architectural process and selects corresponding portfolio of services to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully met.
• Monitors target architectural processes to ensure that they are in line with business strategies and objectives.
• Advises others on implementing quality assurance deliverables and estimated outcomes for target architecture.
• Guides less experienced architects in the processes involved in analyzing target architecture.
• Coordinates architectural resources to ensure that the future state of IT meets client requirements.
• Provides solutions to complex architectural modeling problems and significant barriers encountered in the target architecture design process.

What You Will Have:

• Application Design, Architecture: Extensive experience of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Effective Communications: Highly effective communicator; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Target Architecture: Extensive knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
• Platform Architecture: Extensive experience around technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.

Consideration For Top Candidates:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in designing complex multi-region architectures in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
• Preferred hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Programming Algorithm and Design Patterns
• Hands-on experience in APIs Design
• Experience with Big Data technologies
• Experience designing architectures for enterprise level Microsoft Azure SQL
• Hands-on experience in Apigee, Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, API Manager, Azure Application Gateway, Snowflake, App Dynamic, App Insights, REDIS and ElasticSearch
• Hands-on experience using enterprise authentication technologies, including but not limited to, Oath2, Federation, Azure Active Directory, PingFederate, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Azure Search Services, Microsoft Azure Session Management Services, Azure KeyVault and Azure Functions.

What you Will Get:
Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We've created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is 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 nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Additional Details:
This position has the option to be based out of either our Chicago, IL; Peoria, IL; Dallas, TX offices with a flexible hybrid work environment.
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Posting Dates:
March 26, April 7, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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