Lead Digital Architect

Caterpillar; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off plan

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar's Cat Digital seeks a Lead Digital Architect for the SOS platform to define and guide the technical architecture, ensuring reliable data capture, processing, integration and scalable design.

You will translate business needs into architectural direction, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and drive decisions across cloud and hybrid environments, including AI and LIMS‑oriented data systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of platform architecture to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps.
• Strong expertise in web architecture to integrate web-based resources for business processes.
• Analytical thinking to determine root causes and create solutions.
• Effective communication to translate ideas and needs across teams.
• Experience in eliciting, analyzing and recording required business functionality and non-functionality.

Responsibilities

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems for a Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) based solution.
• Solutioning business use cases by leveraging platform capabilities across data, analytics, agents, and applications.
• Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
• Addressing business requirements by collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.

Skills

Platform architecture

Web architecture

Analytical thinking

Effective communications

Requirements analysis

Job description

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. 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.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

Job Summary The Lead Digital Architect for the Scheduled Oil Service, (SOS) platform will be responsible for defining and guiding technical architecture for both the existing SOS solution and the new solution currently in development. Because the SOS platform collects and manages information related to fluid sampling, this role will ensure that architecture decisions support reliable sample data capture, processing, integration, reporting, and long‑term platform scalability. The position will represent the technical team in discussions related to application functionality, system dependencies, and interactions with other Caterpillar applications, helping translate business and operational needs into clear technical direction.

What You Will Do:

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems for a Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) based solution.
• Solutioning business use cases by leveraging platform capabilities across data, analytics, agents, and applications.
• Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
• Addressing business requirements by collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.

What you will have:

• Platform Architecture: Extensive 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.
• Web Architecture: Extensive knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect web architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate web‑based resources for business processes and functional support.
• Analytical Thinking: Extensive 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.
• Effective Communications: Extensive 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.
• Requirements Analysis: Extensive 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.

Consideration for top candidates:

• Progressive career in software engineering and architecture
• Extensive knowledge of how LIMS function and how they can be used for the purpose of fluid sample testing and/or data management.
• Complete understanding of how lab sample testing equipment functions and how it interacts with other solutions and data storage systems.
• Must be able to bridge high‑level java software architecture with hands‑on coding, manage project lifecycles, mentor engineers, and ensure application scalability, security, and performance.
• Hands‑on knowledge on architecting Enterprise grade AI solutions, knowledge of designing scalable Agentic AI solutions, deploying them in production and help stabilize operations.
• Experience in evaluating new technologies and creating solution blueprints.
• Strong demonstratable experience delivering product and/or enterprise architecture for enterprise scale solutions in public cloud and hybrid eco‑systems.
• Strong understanding of Agile SDLC implementation in public cloud eco‑system including environments management, test automation, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.
• Experience of architecting Cloud Native solutions in public clouds such as AWS.
• Strong hands‑on experience of working with AI Models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Co‑Pilot
• Understanding of enterprise data integration and analytical platforms
• Experience in multiple business processes or organizations and experience in multiple IT disciplines is also beneficial.
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, transportation domains a plus.

Additional Details:

Additional Details: This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL or Dallas, TX Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position. This position will require up to 10% travel

Pay Range: $128,470.00 - $208,770.00

Benefits:

• 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.

Posting Dates: 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.

There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.