Manager Engineering (ITS - Onboard Productivity Applications)

Caterpillar Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and coach high-performing teams in Chennai.

You will drive modernization, continuous improvement, and reliable onboarding productivity applications while balancing customer commitments and strategic priorities. The role requires deep technical and domain leadership, experience in Agile/SAFe environments, and the ability to influence across product and engineering stakeholders globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline.
• Proven ability to coach and develop high-performing teams.
• Strong leadership across product delivery and modernization.
• Experience aligning tools, processes, and AI-enabled practices with business value.
• Experience in Agile and/or SAFe environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams with focus on engagement, career development, performance, and succession.
• Create an accountable, inclusive, and collaborative culture to grow teams and deliver outcomes.
• Lead engineering delivery, sustainment, modernization, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across productivity apps.
• Balance customer commitments, product investments, technical debt, and priorities through planning and stakeholder alignment.
• Apply product and customer domain knowledge to guide priorities and AI-enabled initiatives.
• Champion modern engineering practices, automation, quality engineering, and DevOps.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and practices to boost productivity and velocity.
• Drive change management to sustain engagement and delivery.
• Collaborate with global product, architecture, quality, and engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Managing People

Business Leadership

Change Leadership

Communicating for Impact

Technical Acumen

Agile/SAFe

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you’rejoining 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’tjust 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.

What You Will Do:

• Build, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams, with emphasis on employee engagement, career development, performance management, and succession planning.
• Create an accountable , inclusive , and collaborative culture that enables employees to grow and deliver business outcomes.
• Lead engineering delivery , sustainment, modernization, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across onboard productivity applications.
• Balance customer commitments , product investments , technical debt , and strategic priorities through effective planning, decision-making, and stakeholder alignment.
• Apply strong product and customer domain knowledge to guide priorities, decisions, and next-generation onboard productivity application initiatives.
• Champion modern engineering practices, automation, quality engineering, and DevOps to improve delivery effectiveness.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and practices to improve productivity, quality, and development velocity.
• Drive change management that helps teams adopt new technologies, processes, and ways of working while sustaining engagement and delivery.
• Collaborate with global product, architecture, quality, and engineering stakeholders to achieve customer and business objectives.

What You Have (Basic Requirements):

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Managing People: Relentlessly committed to building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
• Business and Domain Leadership: Strong understanding of onboard productivity applications, customer workflows, operational challenges, and business value.
• Experience leading product delivery, sustainment, modernization, and continuous improvement while balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
• Change Leadership: Ability to influence adoption of new tools, processes, AI-enabled practices, and ways of working.
• Communicating for Impact: Ability to communicate directly, build alignment, and influence stakeholders across product and engineering organizations.
• Technical Acumen : Sufficient technical depth to guide engineering decisions, provide effective leadership to engineering teams, and partner successfully with architects and technical leaders.
• Experience working in Agile and/or SAFe development environments.

Be a model for the team by exhibiting the five critical behaviors:

• Customer-Back Mindset: Create customer value every day by aligning engineering priorities with customer workflows and outcomes.
• Act with Urgency: Drive timely decisions, remove barriers, and enable teams to deliver value quickly.
• Think Differently: Encourage innovation and apply AI-enabled and modern engineering approaches to improve outcomes.
• Open & Direct Communication: Build trust and alignment through transparent, constructive, and timely communication.
• Accelerate Early Wins: Deliver incremental value early and build momentum toward strategic objectives.

What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience supporting mining technology, machine applications, fleet management, autonomy, or industrial software solutions.
• Deep product and customer domain expertise gained through ownership of complex software products and solutions.
• Experience leading geographically distributed software and systems engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success driving organizational transformation, engineering excellence, and AI-enabled productivity improvements.

Posting Dates:

September 29, 2026 - October 12, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply