Principal Digital Architect: AI-Ready Data & Platforms

RiseMe; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plans

HSA

FSA

Career development

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Irving, TX seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Physical AI Ready Data & Annotations to transform enterprise data into reusable, governed data products that accelerate simulation, training, and AI across the business.

You will bridge business domains, data engineering, and AI teams, defining standards and roadmaps for data products, data contracts, metadata, and security, while driving decentralized ownership across engineering organizations.

Qualifications

• Experience defining enterprise data contracts and metadata strategies.
• Ability to design data products for AI and autonomy ecosystems.
• Understanding of data governance and security.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Design an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Define the enterprise framework for Physical AI ready data products.
• Establish standards for data product design, metadata, discoverability, quality, lineage, security, and lifecycle management.
• Design reusable data objects and domain-oriented products that support Physical AI workloads.
• Define data contracts and consumption interfaces to ensure consistent and reliable access across the organization.
• Develop architecture standards for integrating labeling, annotation, curation, evaluation, and feedback processes into data products.
• Drive consistency across domains while enabling decentralized ownership and domain accountability.

Skills

Data Architecture

Platform Architecture

Requirements Analysis

Target Architecture

Agile SDLC

Communication Skills

Tools

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Caterpillar Irving, TX seeks a Principal Digital Architect for Physical AI Ready Data & Annotations to transform enterprise data into reusable, governed data products that accelerate simulation, training, and AI across the business.

You will bridge business domains, data engineering, and AI teams, defining standards and roadmaps for data products, data contracts, metadata, and security, while driving decentralized ownership across engineering organizations.