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Caterpillar Inc
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Caterpillar Inc
Chicago, Illinois, United States
(on-site)
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Information Technology
Principal Digital Architect
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Principal Digital Architect
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Career Area:Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
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.
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.
Job Summary:
Join Cat Digital's Data Architecture & Solutioning team to design and evolve enterprise-scale data architecture that powers Caterpillar's digital ecosystem. You'll lead end-to-end solution architectures on Cat Digital's data platform, drive the creation of trusted interoperable data products, and partner with engineering and product teams to accelerate time-to-data-value for data consumers enabling applications, analytics, and marketing.
What You Will Do:
- Developing high-level data architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
- Review detailed data architecture deliverables to ensure they align with core philosophies, high-level architecture, and strategic direction for data solutions.
- Designing data solutions which include system-to-system data flows, conceptual data models, and logical data models.
- Provide vision for target state data architecture and outline paths for transition to that target state.
- Leading the evaluation and deployment of new solutions to add or enhance existing data product capabilities.
- Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital and data solutions that meets business results.
What You Will Have:
- Data Architecture: Extensive knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
- Analytical Thinking: Extensive 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: Extensive experience in 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.
- Requirements Analysis: Extensive 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.
- Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives
Considerations For Top Candidates:
- Semantic modeling experience
- Extensive data modeling experience
- Experience designing/architecting cloud-based solutions
- ETL knowledge preferred
- Snowflake knowledge preferred
Summary Pay Range:
$147,760.00 - $240,110.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
April 1, 2026 - April 19, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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Job ID: 83117494
For more than a century, Caterpillar has helped build a better, more sustainable world. Caterpillar Inc. is shaping tomorrow’s future as the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company’s primary business segments: Power and Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries a...
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