Lead Data Architect — Enterprise Data Strategy, Onsite IL

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

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Architect to define and guide the Power & Energy segment data vision, structure, and governance, in close partnership with the Lead Data Engineer.

This role designs the blueprint of the data ecosystem, ensuring data is structured, governed, and aligned to business needs. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with data modeling expertise and hands-on architectural guidance across modern data platforms, along with strong business engagement and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data engineering, software engineering, or related field.
• 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.
• 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

• Data Strategy & Target State Vision: map current landscape, define future-state architecture, establish governance principles.
• Data Modeling & Architecture: create conceptual models, guide logical/physical models, apply standard techniques.
• Solution Design & Engineering Partnership: translate architecture into implementable solutions with engineering teams.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: collaborate with stakeholders, communicate findings, align technical and business goals.
• Data Governance & Standards: enforce data standards, governance, security, lineage, and metadata management.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Data Engineering

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Architect to define and guide the Power & Energy segment data vision, structure, and governance, in close partnership with the Lead Data Engineer.

This role designs the blueprint of the data ecosystem, ensuring data is structured, governed, and aligned to business needs. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with data modeling expertise and hands-on architectural guidance across modern data platforms, along with strong business engagement and