Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Summary:  
We are the platform architecture team responsible for architectural solutions for large scale systems.

Responsibilities:

Creating comprehensive architectural designs that align with business requirements and technical standards.Ensuring that the architectural solutions are scalable and perform efficiently under various conditions.Working closely with business leaders, project managers, and development teams to understand requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.Assessing and selecting appropriate technologies and tools that best fit the needs of the organization.Keeping detailed documentation of architectural designs, decisions, and changes.Implementing security measures and ensuring that solutions comply with relevant regulations and standards.Offering guidance and support to development teams, ensuring best practices are followed.Continuously evaluating and improving architectural processes and solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Skill Descriptors

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application designPlatform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Consideration for top candidates:

Expertise programing systems in Java and/or PythonExpertise is building enterprise systems with sound architecture principlesAbility to assess, select, and introduce new technologies based on business needs. Proof of concept and prototyping skills.Cloud architectures: AWS stack, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).Database knowledge: SQL & NoSQL, data modeling, replication, sharding.DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, automated testing.API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), versioning, and documentation.Understanding of AI development, LLM training and fine tuning, ML development (Nice to have)

Additional Details:

This position has the option to be based out of either our Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL offices

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Summary Pay Range:

$126,000.00 - $204,720.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

401(k) savings plans*

Health Savings Account (HSA)*

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

Health Lifestyle Programs*

Employee Assistance Program*

Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

Career Development*

Incentive bonus*

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

       

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.

Posting Dates:

July 31, 2025 - August 10, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.     

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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