Senior Digital Architect GCC Lead Architect

Caterpillar Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical coverage

Pay for performance - annual incentive

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Digital Architect (GCC Lead Architect) to join the App Services for DT&D GCIO-CAT IT Division. The role focuses on Java/J2EE architectures, microservices, and secure, scalable cloud-ready apps.

The incumbent will guide complex projects, oversee CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Based in Chennai or Bangalore, you will shape strategic IT solutions for global customers.

Qualifications

• Over 14 years of application development experience with Java/J2EE stack.
• Strong design and architectural expertise for enterprise apps.
• Experience with web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular.
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, secure, high-availability systems.
• Experience with microservices, containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS and security practices.
• Experience with AI/GenAI tools and automation in development.
• Ability to work in a large cross-functional team and lead technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Architect large-scale applications including high- and low-level designs.
• Develop distributed web apps with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC.
• Implement microservices with Spring Boot in distributed environments.
• Collaborate across teams to modernize legacy components.
• Manage code with CI/CD pipelines and source control.
• Enforce security in the software lifecycle and perform vulnerability remediation.
• Perform complex problem solving with minimal supervision.
• Respond to off-shift and weekend support calls as needed.
• Work independently on complex systems used by multiple apps.
• Drive development focusing on delivering valuable business features.
• Maintain coding standards and best practices within the team.
• Mentor growth and improvements within the team.
• Communicate with end users to guide development and testing.
• Conduct integrated and acceptance testing with careful planning.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Hibernate/Spring Data JPA

Spring WebFlux

OpenAPI

Kafka

Microservices

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

GitHub

Azure DevOps

JFrog Artifactory

AI tools for development

Tools

Git

GitHub

Azure DevOps

JFrog Artifactory

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

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.

Your Impact 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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Senior Digital Architect – (GCC Lead Architect) to join our App Services for DT&D GCIO-CAT IT Division.

This incumbent would be responsible for indirect tax advisory for business queries, projects and technical research to support India indirect tax planning/advisory initiatives. The position requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure accurate tax positions.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Chennai WTC centre or Bangalore PSN office

What you will do

• Experience in architecting large scale applications. Responsible for the high- and low-level design.
• Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in a multi-threaded, distributed environment.
• Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns.
• Manage applications source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle – implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions.
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure.
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output.

What you will have

• More than 14 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, Liquibase/Flyway.
• Experience in providing technical solutions and architecture. Understand business requirements and provide high- and low-level designs.
• Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business.
• Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular frameworks.
• Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them.
• Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with a focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience of developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models
• Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing. Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.
• Experience with developing applications using Microservices with containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns.
• Ability to quickly learn modern technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective.
• A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
• Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos.
• Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc.
• Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions.
• Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS using AWS Cloudformation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana/Prometheus/Cloudwatch, API Gateway.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development.
• Experience with DevOps/security tools – Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc.
• An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices.
• Understanding of Rest, GraphQL, gRPC.
• Familiarity with two or more Databases – DB2, PostgreSQL etc.
• Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.).

Desired Skills

• Experience with APIGee is a huge plus.
• Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
• Experience working with corporate security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and remediation activities (Risk Acceptance, Security Configuration Baseline)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in identifying security policies for cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS).
• Experience working with SonarQube, CodeQL, Rapid7, Artifactory/XRay, Fortify tools.
• This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office

Skills desired

Analytical Thinking

Level Extensive Experience:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Effective Communications

Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Application Design, Architecture

Level Working Knowledge:

• Works with specific development platforms, system and program design tools.
• Participates in the technical design of a specific application.
• Selects and presents design alternatives for applications of small to medium complexity.
• Defines tasks, activities, deliverables and key concerns of technical design.
• Assists in reviewing and documenting technical application designs.

Data Architecture

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in designing blueprints on how to structure, store and utilize data.
• Follows standards, processes and methodologies to develop each phase of data architecture (e.g. data manipulating processes, database technology generating processes).
• Selects criteria used to support data processing operations, data flow and the flow control system.
• Addresses stakeholder concerns by utilizing business data modeling, including data entities, attributes and their relationships.
• Performs administrative work and provides technical solutions for routine problems in data architecture projects.

IT Architecture

Level Working Knowledge:

• Assists in the investigation of an organization's IT requirements.
• Assesses the functionality of components - hardware, software and telecommunications.
• Adheres to IT architecture guidelines and principles.
• Selects design tools and technologies for IT architecture.
• Documents problems that occur in the IT architecture design process.

Platform Architecture

Level Working Knowledge:

• Designs routine platform architectural roadmaps and relevant solutions for end-users or interfaces.
• Follows existing processes and standards in developing IT systems for information storing, delivering and optimizing.
• Selects appropriate operating systems, hardware and programming languages to operate platform processing.
• Tests the effectiveness of platform architecture and ensures that business requirements are fully met, while using the platform architecture.
• Solves routine problems in the design process of platform architectural roadmaps; documents these issues.

Requirements Analysis

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.

Target Architecture

Level Working Knowledge:

• Analyzes the future state of IT needed to meet stakeholder requirements; summarizes business objectives into several actionable sub-targets.
• Follows existing processes and standards in the design and development of IT architecture.
• Develops roadmaps for target architecture based on models of business services (e.g. applications, data and systems).
• Reports on progress made in developing the target architecture; tackles obstacles encountered throughout the design process.
• Provides routine solutions to issues and recommendations for projects in target architecture development.

What you will get

• Work Life Harmony
• Earned and medical leave.
• Relocation assistance

Holistic Development

• Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe
• Career developments opportunities with global prospects

Health and Wellness

• Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
• Employee mental wellness assistance program

Financial Wellness

• Employee investment plan
• Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

Additional Information

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, 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
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.