Lead Architect
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
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Job summary
Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Lead Architect for the Commercial Process Division in Mossville, IL. You will lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of scalable, secure full-stack solutions, partnering with product and enterprise IT to align with business goals.
You will mentor engineers, establish standards, and drive DevOps automation and quality across the SDLC while collaborating with business leaders and product teams.
Qualifications
- Strong Agile mindset and experience in product-centric, cross-functional teams.
- Proven design and delivery of solutions within the Azure ecosystem.
- Deep expertise in .NET based full stack architecture.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, secure full-stack solutions using Agile methods.
- Define and evolve application architecture across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers.
- Partner with product owners to translate business needs into technical designs.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership including coding and reviews.
- Establish coding standards, patterns, and best practices for performance and security.
- Lead DevOps/CI-CD strategy and automated quality practices; mentors teams.
Skills
Tools
Job description
Technology, Digital and Data
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lead DevOps 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.
- Mentor engineers and guide teams through complex architectural and technical decisions.
- Collaborate closely with business leaders, product teams, and enterprise IT partners.
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 DevOps.
- Deep expertise in .NET based full stack architecture, with the ability to evaluate and select appropriate technologies.
Experience across modern engineering languages and platforms, including:
- C#, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Ability to influence both technical and non technical stakeholders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Applies structured lifecycle methodologies for delivering software products.
- Understands phases, dependencies, deliverables and decision points.
- Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.
- 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.
- Leads architecture and design of major or multiple products.
- Evaluates architectural alternatives and design tradeoffs.
- Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
- Estimates cost and impact of proposed architectural designs.
- Defines technical requirements for development and deployment.
- Participates in technical acceptance testing and environment configuration.
- Monitors defects, bugs, and implementation issues.
- Designs and participates in testing strategies including functional, volume, load, and performance testing.
- Documents test activities, results, and non conformance issues.
- Ensures adherence to functional requirements and design specifications.
- The required location for this role is Mossville, IL, Irving-TX
For more than a century, Caterpillar has helped build a better, more sustainable world. With 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company's primary business segments: Power & Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers' toughest challenges through commercial excellence and advanced technology, driven by a highly skilled, dedicated global team. Learn more at www.caterpillar.com.
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
September 28, 2026 - October 6, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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