Principal Digital Architect - Digital Platform Manufacturing and Supply

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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.
**Job Summary:**
The Principal Digital Architect will provide strategic leadership for the overall architecture of the Manufacturing and Supply Digital Platform by designing platform capabilities that anticipate evolving business requirements and use cases. The role will collaborate with peer architects and Enterprise Capability Owners to deliver diverse use cases thru applications, analytics, agents, and business intelligence.
The position holds accountability for developing an enterprise-wide data architecture, creating reusable data components that can be assembled into datasets for business applications, analytics, business intelligence, agents, and digital twin solutions.
Additionally, the role will leverage innovative NVIDIA technologies to advance digital twin capabilities, simulation, and optimization.
**What You Will Do:**
+ Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
+ Solutioning business use cases by leveraging platform capabilities across data, analytics, agents, and applications.
+ Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
+ Addressing business requirements collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.
**What You Will Have:**
+ **Platform Architecture:** Extensive 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.
+ **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 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.
+ **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.
**Considerations for Top Candidates:**
+ Progressive career in software engineering and architecture (typically 12years+)
+ Strong demonstratable experience delivering product and/or enterprise architecture for enterprise scale solutions in public cloud and hybrid eco-systems.
+ In-depth understanding and experience in two or more of the following: massive real-time event and message processing, data lakes, Big Data transformations and analytics, complex e-commerce applications, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL and NoSQL data modeling
+ Strong understanding of Agile SDLC implementation in public cloud eco-system including environments management, test automation, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.
+ Strong hands-on development experience in public cloud environment
+ Familiarity with ML and data analytics
+ Understanding of enterprise data integration and analytical platforms
+ Excellent communication skills and be able to deal with sensitive issues, mentor and coach and/or persuade others on new technologies, new applications, or potential solutions.
+ Experience in multiple business processes or organizations and experience in multiple IT disciplines is also beneficial. Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, transportation domains a plus.
**Posting Dates:**
October 31, 2025 - November 14, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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