Sr IT Analyst-Applications
Caterpillar Inc.
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Job summary
Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Senior IT Analyst Applications based in Bangalore to modernize the procurement application portfolio. You will partner with procurement leaders and delivery teams to understand processes, prioritize modernization efforts, and shape scalable cloud-based solutions.
The role emphasizes front-end and back-end modernization, data migrations, and governance, with experience in AI-enabled enterprise applications and a collaborative, global team environment.
Qualifications
- Experience modernizing complex procurement-related applications.
- Ability to design and implement scalable front-end and back-end architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native development and governance frameworks.
- Knowledge of data integration, ETL patterns, and analytics.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled enterprise applications.
Responsibilities
- Partner with procurement leaders and delivery teams to understand processes and modernization priorities.
- Assess legacy apps and plan re-platforming, refactoring, integration, and data migration.
- Design responsive user experiences with ReactJS; build scalable services and REST APIs with Java/Spring Boot.
- Deploy and operate secure cloud solutions on AWS with proper governance and monitoring.
- Explore generative AI use cases using Amazon Bedrock with security controls.
- Design data solutions using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SnapLogic, and related ETL patterns.
- Lead requirements analysis, solution design, estimation, development, testing, and post-go-live support.
- Translate technical topics to business outcomes, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Promote reusable components, DevSecOps standards, and documentation across portfolios.
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Job description
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.
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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.
We are seeking a skilled Senior IT Analyst Applications to join Strategic Procurement -CAT IT Division. The preference for this role is to be based out of Whitefield PSN Office -Bangalore, KA-India. This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office.
This role is responsible for modernizing the application portfolio that supports Procurement processes.
- Partner with Procurement leaders, business users, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to understand business processes, pain points, and modernization priorities.
- Assess legacy applications and define pragmatic modernization approaches, including re-platforming, refactoring, integration, data migration, and retirement.
- Design and develop responsive user experiences with ReactJS and scalable services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build, deploy, and support secure cloud solutions on AWS, applying appropriate architecture, integration, monitoring, and operational practices.
- Evaluate and implement generative AI use cases using Amazon Bedrock, with appropriate security, governance, and responsible AI controls.
- Design data solutions and integrations using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SnapLogic, APIs, and related ETL patterns.
- Lead requirements analysis, solution design, estimation, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, defect resolution, and post-go-live support.
- Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes, options, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Promote reusable components, engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, documentation, and continuous improvement across the application portfolio.
- Partner with Procurement leaders, business users, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to understand business processes, pain points, and modernization priorities.
- Assess legacy applications and define pragmatic modernization approaches, including re-platforming, refactoring, integration, data migration, and retirement.
- Design and develop responsive user experiences with ReactJS and scalable services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build, deploy, and support secure cloud solutions on AWS, applying appropriate architecture, integration, monitoring, and operational practices.
- Evaluate and implement generative AI use cases using Amazon Bedrock, with appropriate security, governance, and responsible AI controls.
- Design data solutions and integrations using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SnapLogic, APIs, and related ETL patterns.
- Lead requirements analysis, solution design, estimation, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, defect resolution, and post-go-live support.
- Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes, options, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Promote reusable components, engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, documentation, and continuous improvement across the application portfolio.
- Proven delivery of at least one large-scale application modernization, cloud migration, or legacy platform transformation.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI-enabled enterprise applications.
- Experience establishing modern front-end and back-end architecture standards and reusable engineering patterns.
- Knowledge of procurement, supplier management, master data, or related enterprise business processes.
- Experience with data migration, data quality, integration architecture, and analytics or reporting solutions.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Location: Bangalore, India.
- Up to 10% travel may be required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
- Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.
- Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.
- Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.
- Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.
- Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.
- Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
- Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.
- Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
- Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.
- Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.
- Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.
- Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.
Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
- Tracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.
- Researches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.
- Drafts application software usage for the department's needs.
- Provides instant support for end users of application software.
- Implements a specific application software under the supervision of management.
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.
- Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
- Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
- Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
- Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
- Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
- Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
- Designs and develops applications or technology interfaces and bridges.
- Documents existing best practices for system or technology integration processes.
- Identifies and quantifies risks of proposed alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative.
- Delivers training on major issues, interfaces, considerations and potential pitfalls and risks.
- Discusses with line areas on data, technology and application integration issues.
- Advises others in how to integrate projects across multiple technologies.
Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
- Verifies the proper flow of transactions across all input, output and storage channels or devices.
- Evaluates interoperability of new systems with existing systems during the beta testing phase.
- Supervises the testing of complex, multi-platform and distributed applications.
- Designs processes to ensure that the system meets and maintains requirements and expectations.
- Coaches end users on the development of test data and test scenarios for system validation.
- Manages the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, processes and tools.
Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
- Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.
- Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.
- Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.
- Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
- Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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