Data Engineer

Caterpillar•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Cat Digital is the digital and technology focused organization within Caterpillar, Inc. Our global team is responsible for bringing digital capabilities to Caterpillar’s world-famous yellow iron. Working with your yellow partners and Cat Dealers, we execute key components of digital and marketing portfolios, including global marketing & brand, enterprise data, analytics and AI, equipment management, eCommerce, digital marketing, rental & used digital solutions, and aftermarket leads & insights.

Requirements

Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.
Software development experience and solid knowledge of OOP principles.
Experience in designing and developing software applications in Python.
Experience working with Git version control on medium to large teams.
Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Azure Devops etc.
Experience with AWS components such as Lambda, Kinesis, Event Bridge, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Dynamo, Fargate, S3, Sage Maker, IAM and RDS.
Experience working with Snowflake.
Hands‑on experience with GenAI developer tools.
Experience with tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, or similar AI coding assistants to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.

Responsibilities

Developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications.
Performs all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
Interpreting design requirements for engineering implementation.
Building and deploying CICD pipelines.
Implementing source to target mapping as pipeline code.
Responsible for Unit and Integration testing.
Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
Identifies and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
Responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.