IT Architect

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a highly skilled IT Architect to join our team as a GenAI Specialist. This role will play a vital part in enabling a safe environment where the business can innovate and thrive.

• Provide technical leadership for all aspects of environment management, including database lifecycle management, monitoring, support, disaster recovery, compliance, and standards.
• Research new data platform features, tools, and technologies with an Enterprise perspective to meet customer needs while maintaining a secure data environment.
• Research, benchmark, and suggest improvements to database support processes, customer experience (CX) improvements, and compliance requirements.
• Provide 4th level support for complex issues.
• Participate in and manage data related projects, audits, and compliance reviews and testing.
• Develop new and update existing data platform related documentation as needed.
• Coach and communicate information to Caterpillar's application support teams and peers across the enterprise on Snowflake technology changes, new features, key projects, and customer experience improvements.

• Bachelor's Degree and IT related experience.
• Strong experience in cloud or vector database administration.
• Detailed driven, analytical with problem-solving skills.
• Strong skills in communication and collaboration.
• Understanding of data pipeline engineering and ETL / ELT tools.
• Strong programming skills and working knowledge of Java script, procedural SQL, and Python.
• Advanced skills in database performance and SQL query tuning.
• Database design and management experience.
• Basic networking experience.
• Knowledge of data warehousing principles.

• AWS and Azure experience.
• Experience in implementing machine learning models for data analysis, prediction, and optimization.
• Familiarity with popular AI framework and libraries.
• Project Management skills.
• IT Service Management (ITSM) process and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading construction and mining equipment manufacturer of 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 to contributing to a reduced-carbon future.

• Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career.
• Our teams are critical to the success of our customers, who build a better world.
• Here, you earn more than just an hourly wage.
• Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day-one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
• Additional benefits include paid vacation days and holidays (prorated based on the hire date).