Principal Digital Architect — AI Data Foundations

Caterpillar Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Paid time off plan

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Onboard & Site Data to define data architecture for Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will set data contracts, schemas, and metadata, and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams to enable enterprise ingestion and reliable data exchange. This role focuses on building a data foundation that allows AI innovation across fleets, products, and industries, driving edge-to-cloud architectures and

Qualifications

• Knowledge of data architecture processes and how to integrate data resources for business processes.
• Ability to develop IT blueprints and roadmaps aligned with business strategies.
• Experience with data foundations for AI model development and data pipelines.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and guide architecture across engineering teams.

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

Analytical Thinking

Requirements Analysis

Target Architecture

Communication

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Onboard & Site Data to define data architecture for Physical AI and autonomous systems at scale.

You will set data contracts, schemas, and metadata, and collaborate with perception, data engineering, and platform teams to enable enterprise ingestion and reliable data exchange. This role focuses on building a data foundation that allows AI innovation across fleets, products, and industries, driving edge-to-cloud architectures and