Senior Digital Architect - Physical AI & Data Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Physical AI Data Platform in Irving, TX. You will shape the enterprise-wide data architecture, enabling streaming and analytical workloads and AI model pipelines across scales.

Lead architectural roadmaps, govern data resources, and collaborate with engineering, cloud, and business teams to deliver secure, observable, and high-performing data ecosystems that power autonomous construction and industrial AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Defines enterprise data domains and scalable architectures for AI ecosystems.
• Translates business needs into data and platform architectural roadmaps.
• Experience with streaming, batch, and event-driven analytics architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise architecture deliverables for Physical AI workloads.
• Design data ingestion, storage, governance, and lifecycle patterns.
• Lead platform guardrails for observability, security, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Data architecture

Platform architecture

Requirements analysis

AI & ML data foundations

Data platforms & data products

Strategic architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

12+ years in software engineering and architecture

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Data modeling tooling

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Principal Digital Architect for Physical AI Data Platform in Irving, TX. You will shape the enterprise-wide data architecture, enabling streaming and analytical workloads and AI model pipelines across scales.

Lead architectural roadmaps, govern data resources, and collaborate with engineering, cloud, and business teams to deliver secure, observable, and high-performing data ecosystems that power autonomous construction and industrial AI initiatives.