Principal Digital Architect

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.
Caterpillar Inc. seeks Principal Digital Architect at its facility located at 540 West Madison St, #1400, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Perform overall data architecture, solution design, data quality, metadata management, or data governance. Acts as team lead by providing technical leadership, guidance and assistance to other team members across the organization. Take the lead role in complex projects spanning across multiple system components. Work directly on complex problems and provide solutions aligned with the overall objectives of Cat Digital. Understand and evaluate business requirements that impact the data of Caterpillar enterprise, dealership partners, and other internal and external customers. Liaise with data creators to support project planning, training, guidance on standards, and the efficient creation/maintenance of high-quality data. Contribute to policies, procedures, and standards as well as technical requirements. Create Data management strategy and define continuous improvement goals of data quality, governance and processes. Document data models for domains to be deployed include a logical data model, candidate source lists, and canonical formats. Provide guidance and expertise on identifying source systems, developing data object pipeline specifications, metadata policies, as well as alignment of data governance efforts. Accountable to design robust, scalable databases and data solutions supporting applications, analytics, and business intelligence. REQS: This position requires a Bachelor's, degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 8 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering or related occupation. Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) 8 years of experience in data management (data design, data quality, metadata, governance, etc.); (2) 5 years of experience leading data management or software engineering projects with real time or eventing; (3) Designing and implementing end-to-end automated data processing ETL/ELT pipelines using a variety of tools and technologies such as: Hadoop Technologies, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, python, etc; (4) Data architecture for enterprise scale systems in public cloud in AWS, Azure and hybrid ecosystems using: data lakes, big data transformations, data hub, data fabric, cloud data processing, relational SQL and NoSQL data modelling; (5) Data modelling requirements for structured and non-structured data using various database management technologies such as: AWS RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora), AWS DynamoDB, and NoSQL databases; (6) 3 years of experience using cloud architecture services such as: Amazon Web Services; (7) 5 years of experience performing data management for relational databases such as: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aurora and big data databases such as NoSQL; (8) 5 years of experience with: enterprise data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) tools and web and application server hosting; (9) 5 years of experience with DevOps technologies such as: Jenkins and deployment w/ Flyway; and (10) 5 years of development experience in Java or Python. Travel: 15% domestic. Telecommuting: 3 days/week.
Summary Pay Range:
$147,472.00 - $235,440.00
Compensation and benefits 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
Applicants who are interested in this position should apply via www.caterpillar.com/careers, search [Principal Digital Architect / Reference # R0000309199]. #LI-DNI
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
June 10, 2025 - October 9, 2025
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.
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