Lead Data Specialist

Caterpillar•Peoria, IL

35d•$128,470 - $192,710

About The Position

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. Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. Job Summary: Join Cat Digital in this new and exciting Data Architect role in shaping the data architecture, strategy and standards enabling Caterpillar’s next generation Dealer ERP solution (Cat Converge)! You will work closely with product management, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate business outcomes into scalable, cloud-native data solutions that accelerate time-to-value and enable a seamless Cat Digital experience.

Requirements

Data Architecture: Extensive knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
Information Management: Extensive knowledge of an organization’s existing and planned Information Architecture and Information Management (IM) methodology; ability to collect and manage information from different sources and distribute this information to enhance operational efficiency
Cloud Computing: Working knowledge of the concepts, technologies and services of cloud computing, ability to design, deploy how data is managed and interact with cloud computing solutions.
Requirements Analysis: Working knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Nice To Haves

Experience with data modeling and solutions related to ERP solutions (i.e. Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, etc)
Experience with Microsoft Fabric
Experience designing/architecting cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities

Establish Data architecture principles and strategy for Dealer ERP related ecosystem including data migrations, integrations and related goals
Develop detailed data architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
Design data solutions which include system-to-system data flows, conceptual data models, and logical data models.
Lead the evaluation and deployment of new solutions to add or enhance existing data product capabilities.
Participate in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital and data solutions that meet business results.