PIM Platform Engineering Manager - Software Engineering

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

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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, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

The PIM Platform Engineering Manager leads engineering strategy and delivery for the PIM platform, owning technical direction, architecture review, and quality/reliability for the team's Akeneo and Informatica P360 migration work. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set technical direction, unblock delivery, and are the final technical decision-maker for the platform.

• Lead technical direction and platform engineering strategy for Akeneo, including architecture review and technical decision-making
• Own delivery execution and backlog shaping across the PIM engineering team (tech leads, engineers, BA, TPO, sys admin)
• Guide the Informatica P360-to-Akeneo migration and transition, including migration planning and integration strategy
• Review solution designs and ensure workflows, enrichment rules, and Akeneo extensions are built on reusable, standardized patterns
• Validate technical readiness for releases and migration cutovers; own quality and reliability for the platform
• Provide vendor/SOW oversight (Capgemini) for P360 maintenance during the Akeneo transition
• Review backlog quality and ensure the team consistently ships working platform capabilities
• Solve hands-on technical problems and unblock integration/migration issues directly when needed

• Products and Services:
  Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
• Organizational Leadership:
  Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
• Software Development:
  Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Software Development Life Cycle:
  Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software Product Design/Architecture:
  Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
• Software Quality Assurance and Testing:
  Knowledge of software quality assurance and testing; ability to apply appropriate processes, tools, and techniques for assuring a high level of quality in computer software products and systems.

• Proven engineering leadership experience managing platform, PIM, or MDM engineering teams
• Hands-on technical background in Akeneo
• Strong architecture and solution-design review experience, including API and integration design
• Experience leading platform migrations (system-to-system data and workflow migration)
• Comfortable owning delivery execution: backlog management, sprint planning, release readiness
• Vendor/SOW management…