Senior Data Architect — Strategy, Modeling & Governance

Caterpillar; Mossville (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plan

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Data Architect for the East Peoria, IL or Mossville, IL area. You will define the data strategy, govern data, and guide cross-functional teams across the Power & Energy segment to enable scalable data solutions.

The role requires deep data modeling expertise, enterprise data architecture experience, and effective collaboration with the Lead Data Engineer to deliver end-to-end data platforms. Onsite five days a week with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data engineering, software engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Progressive experience in data, analytics, information architecture, or enterprise technology roles.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data architecture initiatives across multiple business domains.
• Deep expertise in data warehousing principles and data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical).
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise data strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams to translate business strategy into data architecture solutions.

Responsibilities

• Map the current-state data landscape related to critical business initiatives, including systems, flows, redundancies, and gaps.
• Define and maintain the future-state data architecture vision and roadmap aligned to business strategy.
• Establish guiding principles for scalable, reusable, and governed data ecosystems.
• Build and maintain conceptual data models that define core business entities and relationships.
• Guide the development of logical and physical data models in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Ensure consistent application of industry-standard modeling techniques (e.g., dimensional, data vault)
• Define canonical data definitions and promote reuse across domains.
• Partner closely with the Lead Data Engineer to translate architecture into implementable solutions.
• Provide oversight and guidance on end-to-end data solution design, from ingestion through consumption.
• Ensure architecture decisions support performance, scalability, and extensibility.
• Review and validate solution designs to ensure alignment with architectural standards.
• Build collaborative relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams, ensuring requirements are accurately understood.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills essential for presenting findings and driving alignment between technical solutions and business outcomes.
• Function as a trusted advisor on data-related decisions and trade-offs.
• Ensure the right data sources are identified and leveraged for each use case.
• Enforce alignment with enterprise data standards, governance policies, and security requirements.
• Promote data quality, consistency, and lineage across the data ecosystem.
• Define standards for metadata management, data classification, and access controls.

Skills

Power & Energy domain

Team leadership

Programming languages

Data modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Data Eng

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Data Architect for the East Peoria, IL or Mossville, IL area. You will define the data strategy, govern data, and guide cross-functional teams across the Power & Energy segment to enable scalable data solutions.

The role requires deep data modeling expertise, enterprise data architecture experience, and effective collaboration with the Lead Data Engineer to deliver end-to-end data platforms. Onsite five days a week with comprehensive benefits.