PIM Platform Engineering Manager - Software Engineering
About The Position
The PIM Platform Engineering Manager leads engineering strategy and delivery for the PIM platform, owning technical direction, architecture review, and quality/reliability for the team's Akeneo and Informatica P360 migration work. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set technical direction, unblock delivery, and are the final technical decision-maker for the platform. 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, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Requirements
- Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
- Organizational Leadership: Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
- Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
- Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
- Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
- Software Quality Assurance and Testing: Knowledge of software quality assurance and testing; ability to apply appropriate processes, tools, and techniques for assuring a high level of quality in computer software products and systems.
Nice To Haves
- Proven engineering leadership experience managing platform, PIM, or MDM engineering teams
- Hands-on technical background in Akeneo
- Strong architecture and solution-design review experience, including API and integration design
- Experience leading platform migrations (system-to-system data and workflow migration)
- Comfortable owning delivery execution: backlog management, sprint planning, release readiness
- Vendor/SOW management experience
- Strong communicator who can align architecture, business, and delivery teams
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and platform engineering strategy for Akeneo, including architecture review and technical decision-making
- Own delivery execution and backlog shaping across the PIM engineering team (tech leads, engineers, BA, TPO, sys admin)
- Guide the Informatica P360-to-Akeneo migration and transition, including migration planning and integration strategy
- Review solution designs and ensure workflows, enrichment rules, and Akeneo extensions are built on reusable, standardized patterns
- Validate technical readiness for releases and migration cutovers; own quality and reliability for the platform
- Provide vendor/SOW oversight (Capgemini) for P360 maintenance during the Akeneo transition
- Review backlog quality and ensure the team consistently ships working platform capabilities
- Solve hands-on technical problems and unblock integration/migration issues directly when needed
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
