Lead Digital Architect for Onboard & Site Data

RiseMe; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Onboard & Site Data to define data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale. You will establish data contracts, schemas, metadata, and interface requirements, working with perception architects, data engineering, and platform teams.

You will create a data foundation that supports AI innovation across machines and sites, shaping how data is collected, stored, and utilized across enterprise ingestion platforms.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture.
• Ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.

Responsibilities

• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Leading the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
• Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results.
• Define contracts between sensor information and ingestion.
• Standardize schemas, semantics, timestamps, units, identity, and metadata.
• Specify quality, completeness, latency, and versioning expectations.

Skills

Data Architecture

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Onboard & Site Data to define data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale. You will establish data contracts, schemas, metadata, and interface requirements, working with perception architects, data engineering, and platform teams.

You will create a data foundation that supports AI innovation across machines and sites, shaping how data is collected, stored, and utilized across enterprise ingestion platforms.