Lead Data Architect: Enterprise Data Strategy

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; East Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in East Peoria, IL seeks a Lead Data Architect to define the Power & Energy data vision, structure, and standards, partnering with the Lead Data Engineer to shape the data ecosystem.

You will drive data strategy, modeling, governance, and solution design across domains, engaging with executives to translate business needs into scalable, high-performance architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• Progressive experience in data, analytics, information architecture, or enterprise technology roles
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data architecture initiatives across multiple business domains
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, data warehousing principles and data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise data strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks
• Experience partnering with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams to translate business strategy into data architecture solutions

Responsibilities

• Map the current-state data landscape related to critical business initiatives, including systems, flows, redundancies, and gaps
• Define and maintain the future-state data architecture vision and roadmap aligned to business strategy
• Establish guiding principles for scalable, reusable, and governed data ecosystems
• Build and maintain conceptual data models that define core business entities and relationships
• Guide the development of logical and physical data models in collaboration with engineering teams
• Ensure consistent application of industry-standard modeling techniques (e.g., dimensional, data vault)
• Define canonical data definitions and promote reuse across domains
• Partner closely with the Lead Data Engineer to translate architecture into implementable solutions
• Provide oversight and guidance on end-to-end data solution design, from ingestion through consumption
• Ensure architecture decisions support performance, scalability, and extensibility
• Review and validate solution designs to ensure alignment with architectural standards
• Build collaborative relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills essential for presenting findings and driving alignment between technical solutions and business outcomes
• Function as a trusted advisor on data-related decisions and trade-offs
• Enforce alignment with enterprise data standards, governance policies, and security requirements
• Promote data quality, consistency, and lineage across the data ecosystem
• Define standards for metadata management, data classification, and access controls

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Programming (Python, Java)

Business stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / Information Systems / Data Engineering / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in East Peoria, IL seeks a Lead Data Architect to define the Power & Energy data vision, structure, and standards, partnering with the Lead Data Engineer to shape the data ecosystem.

You will drive data strategy, modeling, governance, and solution design across domains, engaging with executives to translate business needs into scalable, high-performance architectures.