Senior Digital Architect – Onboard & Site Data

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; 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

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

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

You will establish data contracts, schemas, and metadata standards, working with perception, data engineering and platform teams to enable reliable enterprise ingestion. The role centers on building the data foundation for AI innovation, collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading architectural initiatives on-site in

Qualifications

• Knowledge of data architecture and ability to design blueprints for integrating data resources across business processes.
• Ability to elicit, analyze and document required functionality and non-functional requirements for systems.
• Experience defining enterprise data domains, metadata strategies and scalable architectures for AI/autonomy ecosystems.
• Ability to influence senior leadership and craft architectural roadmaps without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Design an application's technical infrastructure and testing approaches.
• Lead evaluation and deployment of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions meeting 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

Domain modeling

AI/ML data foundations

Requirements analysis

Target architecture

Job description

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

You will establish data contracts, schemas, and metadata standards, working with perception, data engineering and platform teams to enable reliable enterprise ingestion. The role centers on building the data foundation for AI innovation, collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading architectural initiatives on-site in