Senior Digital Architect

Caterpillar Inc.•Virginia Beach, VA

1d•Onsite

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. About the role: The Senior Digital Architect participates in defining functional designs and application systems architecture across various digital platforms.

Requirements

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.
Requirements Analysis: 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

Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or closely related field
Cloud architectures: AWS Well Architected Framework – serverless, cloud formation stacks, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), etc.
Experience in Cyber Security (DAST / SAST / etc.) monitoring and compliance
Expertise programing systems in Java, .NET and/or Python
Expertise is building enterprise systems with sound architecture principles
Ability to assess, select, and introduce new technologies based on business needs. Proof of concept and prototyping skills.
Database knowledge: SQL & NoSQL, data modeling, replication, sharding.
DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, automated testing.
API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), versioning, and documentation.
Understanding of AI development, LLM training and fine tuning, ML development

Responsibilities

Leading the alignment with Enterprise Procedures and Security Compliance across multiple digital platforms
Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems
Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results