Senior Digital Architect: Enterprise Integration & API

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) savings

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect to provide architecture leadership across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and integrations with Caterpillar enterprise applications. You will own end-to-end architecture and drive strategic roadmaps.

The role requires strong governance, cross-domain leadership, and emphasis on resiliency, security, observability and performance to enable scalable, high-availability enterprise integration across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale ERP, commerce, dealer, or enterprise integration ecosystems.
• Experience designing Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure-based architectures.
• Deep understanding of API, event-driven, asynchronous data integration patterns.
• Experience establishing cloud architecture patterns and enterprise standards.
• Designs for high availability, disaster recovery, security, observability, performance and scalability.
• Ability to lead architecture across multiple products, teams and boundaries.
• Facilitates architecture decisions amidst conflicting requirements and priorities.
• Strong executive 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, including APIs, events, data flows, cloud services, and integration patterns.
• Target-state architecture and roadmap leadership, not simply solution design for individual features.
• Strong non-functional architecture awareness, particularly resiliency, security, scalability, observability, supportability, and operational readiness.
• Cross-domain technical leadership, with the ability to drive architecture decisions across product, engineering, integration, data, security, and operations teams.
• Architecture governance and influence, including the ability to challenge designs, evaluate trade-offs, establish reusable patterns, and communicate recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Enterprise integration

APIs & data flows

Cloud services

Non-functional architecture

Cross-domain leadership

Executive communication

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect to provide architecture leadership across Cat Converge Suite, CIS, and integrations with Caterpillar enterprise applications. You will own end-to-end architecture and drive strategic roadmaps.

The role requires strong governance, cross-domain leadership, and emphasis on resiliency, security, observability and performance to enable scalable, high-availability enterprise integration across multiple teams.