Technology Program Manager-Business Operations

Caterpillar Inc.•Irving, TX

4d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar’s Cat Technology organization is seeking a Lead Digital Project Manager to lead portfolio operations, financial planning, workforce coordination, and business execution for a complex digital engineering organization. The role works across engineering, product, architecture, simulation, infrastructure, Finance, and portfolio teams to provide actionable insight into financial performance, workforce capacity, operational metrics, and investment priorities. The position coordinates established planning and governance processes, strengthens financial and operational reporting, and helps leaders identify risks, opportunities, and decisions. It combines project and program management, financial analysis, resource planning, and disciplined execution to help technical teams deliver effectively while reducing administrative work for engineering and product leaders. The role also supports cloud and technology cost management, capital and purchasing coordination, workforce and position management, and recurring portfolio reporting. The position is full-time onsite at Caterpillar’s Irving, Texas office. Domestic relocation assistance is available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Extensive and progressive experience supporting digital, technology, software, engineering, finance, or business operations programs.
Experience with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, actual spending analysis, variance analysis, reporting, portfolio operations, or investment planning.
Knowledge of project and program management practices, including governance, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder coordination, and ability to apply them to complex digital or technology initiatives.
Ability to organize complex information, identify trends and data gaps, evaluate alternatives, and develop practical recommendations.
Experience coordinating workforce, purchasing, capital, asset, supplier, licensing, or portfolio administration activities.
Ability to build effective working relationships across engineering, product, Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, and leadership teams.
Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including ability to translate detailed information into clear leadership summaries.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate information, meet recurring deadlines, and drive issues to resolution.
Experience preparing management reports, dashboards, and presentations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint or comparable analysis and presentation tools.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
Must work full-time onsite at the Irving, Texas office.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting software engineering, cloud, artificial intelligence, simulation, autonomy, platform, or infrastructure organizations.
Experience applying workforce, financial, capacity, or investment data to portfolio planning and leadership decisions.
Experience with cloud financial management or FinOps practices, including cost allocation, utilization analysis, forecasting, or reservation planning.
Proficiency with Power BI, Power Platform, SAP, Azure DevOps, or comparable portfolio, financial, and business reporting tools.
Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, or product- and portfolio-based operating models.
PMP, CAPM, SAFe, Agile, FinOps, or a related professional certification.

Responsibilities

Coordinate portfolio reviews and established governance cadences across one or more organizational portfolios.
Translate roadmap, investment, delivery, workforce, and financial data into management summaries and decision materials.
Maintain program metrics, dashboards, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and dependencies.
Prepare materials for monthly, quarterly, and senior leadership reviews.
Improve templates, reporting standards, controls, and repeatable business processes; simplify or automate administrative and reporting activities.
Support portfolio forecasting, actual spending and run-rate analysis, and recurring financial reporting.
Collect, validate, and consolidate financial inputs; coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles.
Analyze spending variances and trends, identify root causes, and escalate material risks or data gaps.
Develop rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, business cases, and investment assumptions.
Maintain accurate portfolio financial data, job code information, and supporting records.
Coordinate workforce planning, position control, hiring activities, and updates with HR, Finance, Business Resource Management, and hiring leaders.
Track planned positions, open roles, hiring status, onboarding progress, and changes to staffing assumptions.
Prepare workforce reports connecting staffing plans with financial forecasts, capacity needs, and delivery priorities.
Track financials for cloud, GPU, compute, software, infrastructure, and related technology investments; support forecasting, utilization reporting, reservation planning, cost tagging, and allocation or chargeback activities.
Partner with technical and financial stakeholders to improve visibility into technology commitments, demand, utilization, and spending trends.
Develop forward-looking technology cost views to inform portfolio planning and investment decisions.
Coordinate information for preparing, reviewing, approving, and tracking capital requests; maintain visibility into capital approvals, commitments, expenditures, and asset records.
Support purchase requests, purchase orders, software licensing, laboratory operations, field trials, and other business operations needs.
Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, suppliers, and technical teams to resolve process, data, and status issues.
Support software license planning, renewals, true-ups, and related financial reporting.