Senior Digital Architect – (GCC Lead Architect)

Caterpillar Brazil; India; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical coverage

Bonus plan

Pay for performance - Annual incentive

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Digital Architect – GCC Lead Architect to join App Services for DT&D GCIO-CAT IT Division. The role involves architecting large-scale Java/J2EE applications, leading design efforts, and collaborating across teams to upgrade legacy components.

Expect emphasis on secure, scalable, distributed architectures. The position requires deep experience in Spring Boot, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployments with a focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing large-scale Java/J2EE apps.
• Strong understanding of microservices, Spring Boot and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and secure coding.

Responsibilities

• Architect high- and low-level designs for scalable web apps.
• Lead cross-team collaboration to modernize legacy components.
• Ensure security directives and vulnerability remediation in the lifecycle.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Microservices

CI/CD

Security concepts

Cloud platforms

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you are 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 testing, and ensuring reliability and functionality. 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 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 improving 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. 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.

Skills desired

Analytical Thinking

• Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

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

• Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

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

Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.

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

Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.

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

Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations.

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

Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.

Level Working Knowledge

• Designs routine platform architectural roadmaps and relevant solutions for end-users to access 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

Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

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

Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.

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.