Senior Enterprise Digital Architect - API & Cloud Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental leave

Life Insurance

Adoption benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts

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 a roadmap spanning multiple domains.

In this role, you will ensure strong non-functional attributes—resiliency, security, scalability, observability—and governance while guiding cross‑functional teams and communicating trade-offs to executives and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale ERP/integration ecosystems.
• Experience with Dynamics 365 and Azure architectures.
• Knowledge of API, event-driven, and data integration patterns.
• Ability to design cloud architecture standards and enterprise integration standards.

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 ownership

Enterprise integration

Cross-domain leadership

Non-functional architecture

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Azure cloud

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 a roadmap spanning multiple domains.

In this role, you will ensure strong non-functional attributes—resiliency, security, scalability, observability—and governance while guiding cross‑functional teams and communicating trade-offs to executives and stakeholders.