Lead Enterprise Digital Architect – API & Cloud Integration

Caterpillar; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Paid time off

401(k)

HSA

FSAs

Career development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Principal Digital Architect to lead architecture across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and enterprise integrations. You will drive end-to-end architecture ownership and define the target-state roadmap while coordinating across product, engineering, data, and security teams.

You will engage senior technical and business stakeholders, ensure resiliency and security, and guide governance with scalable patterns. This is a high-impact role within Cat Digital at Caterpillar.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale ERP, commerce, dealer, or enterprise integration ecosystems.
• Experience designing solutions involving Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure-based architectures.
• Deep understanding of API, event-driven, asynchronous, and data integration architecture patterns.
• Experience establishing cloud architecture patterns and enterprise integration standards.
• Demonstrated ability to design for high availability, disaster recovery, security, observability, performance, and scalability.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple products, engineering teams, and organizational boundaries.
• Ability to facilitate architecture decisions where requirements, constraints and priorities conflict.
• Strong executive-level communication translating technical considerations into business impact.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end architecture ownership across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and connected Caterpillar systems.
• Enterprise integration architecture expertise across APIs, events, data flows, cloud services, and integration patterns.
• Lead target-state architecture and roadmap, not just individual features.
• Ensure strong non-functional architecture including resiliency, security, observability, and operational readiness.
• Provide cross-domain technical leadership across product, engineering, data, security, and operations teams.
• Influence architecture governance, challenge designs, and communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Enterprise integration

API design

Cloud architecture

Data integration

Security

Observability

Governance

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Azure

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Principal Digital Architect to lead architecture across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and enterprise integrations. You will drive end-to-end architecture ownership and define the target-state roadmap while coordinating across product, engineering, data, and security teams.

You will engage senior technical and business stakeholders, ensure resiliency and security, and guide governance with scalable patterns. This is a high-impact role within Cat Digital at Caterpillar.