Senior Lead Data Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Chicago, IL

2d•$128,470 - $208,770•Onsite

About The Position

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. As a Senior Lead Data Engineer on the Data Engineering team, you will be responsible for developing Python data pipelines that build business data objects used to support applications.

Requirements

Software Development Strong expertise in software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Software Development Life Cycle: Strong expertise in 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: Strong expertise in software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Software Product Technical Knowledge: Strong expertise in technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
Software Product Testing: Strong expertise in software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

Nice To Haves

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

Competent to perform 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
Responsibility 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
Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.