Principal Digital Architect

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

5d•$147,760 - $240,110

About The Position

The Principal Digital Architect provides architecture leadership across the Cat Converge Suite, Cat Integration Service (CIS), and integrations with Caterpillar enterprise and Cat Digital applications. The role owns end-to-end architecture for these systems and leads target-state architecture and roadmap development beyond individual feature-level solution design. The architect applies enterprise integration expertise across APIs, events, data flows, cloud services, and integration patterns, while ensuring solutions address resiliency, security, scalability, observability, supportability, and operational readiness. The position drives architecture decisions across product, engineering, integration, data, security, and operations teams; governs and challenges designs; evaluates trade-offs; establishes reusable patterns; and communicates recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders. Caterpillar describes Cat Digital as its digital and technology arm, building digital solutions for customers and dealers using data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI. The position is with Caterpillar, a global manufacturer of construction and mining equipment and related products.

Requirements

Knowledge of analytical techniques and tools, with ability to identify root causes of organizational problems and develop alternative solutions.
Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices, including use of methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into technical application designs.
Knowledge of data architecture processes, techniques, and influencing factors, and ability to design blueprints integrating data resources for business processes and functional support.
Knowledge of IT architecture and ability to design and improve organizational IT structures that support business operations.
Knowledge of platform architecture technologies and methods for designing processing mechanisms, roadmaps, and supportive interfaces in accordance with standards and processes.
Knowledge of requirements analysis tools, methods, and techniques, including eliciting, analyzing, and recording functional and non-functional requirements.
Knowledge of target architecture and ability to develop IT blueprints and roadmaps aligned with business strategies and objectives.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale ERP, commerce, dealer, or enterprise integration ecosystems.
Experience designing solutions involving Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure-based architectures.
Deep understanding of API, event-driven, asynchronous, and data integration architecture patterns.
Experience establishing cloud architecture patterns and enterprise integration standards.
Demonstrated ability to design for high availability, disaster recovery, security, observability, performance, and scalability.
Experience leading architecture across multiple products, engineering teams, and organizational boundaries.
Ability to facilitate architecture decisions where requirements, technical constraints, and stakeholder priorities conflict.
Strong executive-level communication skills, including translating technical considerations into business impact, risk, trade-offs, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Provide end-to-end architecture ownership across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and connected Caterpillar systems.
Lead target-state architecture and roadmap development.
Apply enterprise integration architecture expertise across APIs, events, data flows, cloud services, and integration patterns.
Design for non-functional requirements, including resiliency, security, scalability, observability, supportability, and operational readiness.
Drive architecture decisions across product, engineering, integration, data, security, and operations teams.
Challenge designs, evaluate trade-offs, establish reusable architecture patterns, and communicate recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders.