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.
Who is CAT Digital? What do we do?
Big machines require big thinking. Are you looking for your next big challenge?
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 one million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.
Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.
Job Opportunity:
We are seeking talented individuals to join our team to help grow our presence, organization, culture, which will drive our digital product development efforts. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with top professionals working on very high impact and visibility products. Don't miss this chance to join and support digital innovation for a global leader in heavy machinery!
What will you do?
As the Senior Software Architect you will be responsible for defining functional designs and application systems architecture across various digital platforms. You will also:
Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
Oversee the architecture of cross-platform mobile applications and manage technical priorities.
Lead the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
Translate business requirements into technical direction, provide leadership and mentoring to engineering teams, facilitate design discussions, and guide cross-functional teams toward digital solutions that meet business objectives.
Coordinate with upstream teams and stakeholders, assess dependencies for upcoming changes, and determine which capabilities should be implemented in the BFF, reused from existing upstream services, or shared across services.
Support bug triage and coordinate the resolution of complex problems that require fixes across multiple teams.
Ensure that solutions address security, performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability requirements.
This position works directly with Slovakia based engineering leadership and Cat Digital IT in the US.
What you have:
Background and experience:
Incremental modernization and continuous improvement: ability to assess the gap between the current and desired state, make pragmatic trade-offs, and define measurable steps toward improvement across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons.
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
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.
Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business…