Principal Digital Architect, Physical AI Data Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k)

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Career development

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for the Physical AI Data Platform to define enterprise-wide architecture supporting streaming, batch, and analytics.

You will partner with engineering, cloud, and business teams to build a scalable data foundation that enables AI innovation at scale and ensures secure, observable data ecosystems across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience defining enterprise data architectures and roadmaps.
• Ability to design blueprints for data integration and governance.
• Experience aligning architecture with business strategy.

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.
• Defines patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and lifecycle management to ensure a resilient, observable, and high-performing data ecosystem for Physical AI workloads.
• Develop platform guardrails for observability, performance monitoring, resilience, security, retention, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform strategies to support future business and Physical AI needs.

Skills

Data Architecture

Analytical Thinking

Platform Architecture

Requirements Analysis

Target Architecture

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for the Physical AI Data Platform to define enterprise-wide architecture supporting streaming, batch, and analytics.

You will partner with engineering, cloud, and business teams to build a scalable data foundation that enables AI innovation at scale and ensures secure, observable data ecosystems across the organization.