Lead 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.

This position helps Caterpillar solve its customers' toughest challenges while building a better and more sustainable world. The Lead Architect will deliver strategic technology initiatives within the Commercial Process Division (CPD), part of the Power and Energy Group. CPD focuses on the development and delivery of services, solutions, and processes that support Caterpillar's commitment to customers, including the global Dealer Network.

The incumbent collaborates with business partners and enterprise teams to create business-relevant IT and business strategies for CPD.

What You Will Do:

Architecture & Solution Delivery

• Lead end to end architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, secure, full stack solutions using Agile methodologies.
• Define and evolve application architecture across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.
• Partner with product owners and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and architectural designs.

Technical Leadership

• Provide hands on technical leadership, including designing, coding, and reviewing critical components and shared frameworks.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Serve as a technical escalation point, enabling high performing, product focused teams.

Dev Ops, Automation & Quality

• Lead Dev Ops and CI/CD strategy, ensuring high quality, frequent, and reliable releases through automation.
• Drive an automation first and AI enabled mindset, embedding intelligent automation across development, testing, and operational workflows.
• Oversee automated testing and quality engineering practices across the full SDLC.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers and guide teams through complex architectural and technical decisions.
• Collaborate closely with business leaders, product teams, and enterprise IT partners.

What You Have:

Strong Agile mindset, with experience working in or leading product centric, cross functional teams.

• Proven experience designing and delivering solutions within the Azure ecosystem, including Azure Dev Ops.
• Deep expertise in .NET based full stack architecture, with the ability to evaluate and select appropriate technologies.

Technical Expertise

Experience across modern engineering languages and platforms, including:

• C#, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL

Leadership & Communication

• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence both technical and non technical stakeholders.

Skill Descriptors Decision Making & Critical Thinking

• Analyzes situations and reaches productive decisions using informed judgment.
• Identifies, organizes, and documents relevant data, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns while assessing risks, benefits, and alternatives.

Effective Communication

• Communicates clearly and appropriately for the audience.
• Delivers constructive feedback and incorporates feedback from others.
• Produces presentations and reports needed for effective delivery.
• Avoids unnecessary technical jargon and recognizes non verbal cues.

Software Development

• Produces software aligned with product requirements.
• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors quality of development activities.
• Evaluates advantages and drawbacks of development languages and tools.
• Estimates and monitors development costs and consults on tool selection and usage.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Applies structured lifecycle methodologies for delivering software products.
• Understands phases, dependencies, deliverables and decision points.
• Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.

Software Integration Engineering

• Designs and implements interfaces and integration patterns.
• Understands ETL tools and data exchange techniques.
• Participates in developing technology interfaces and bridges with customer and partner systems.

Software Product…