Job Description

Career Area: Digital

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JOB RELATED STATISTICS:

• Internal customers spend potential: $2.5B+ for business facing $300M+ for Cat Digital facing
• Functional or Technical Domains covered are:
• 2+ Level 2 capability areas in Caterpillar\'s Enterprise Capability Model*(ECM) for Application Architecture Managers
• 3+ Level 2 capability areas within Information Technology in Caterpillar\'s ECM for Information/Integration or Technology Architect Managers

• Personnel management: 3+ Architects (all levels of Digital Architects including Chief Architects)

JOB DUTIES:

• Customer service and relationship management - Manage the EA engagement with executive stakeholders of the Architect Manager\'s domains
• Business aligned digital roadmaps for strategic initiatives - Creating a 3 to 5-year view of how IT digital will achieve CIO selected Business and Technology Strategies for the Architect Manager\'s domains. This includes the conceptual architecture and business case for each project within the roadmap to achieve the desired business outcomes
• Portfolio analysis - Provide insights on all business aligned digital roadmaps across the company on where we could improve value (speed to market, reduced cost, etc.) by leveraging assets across the enterprise
• New technology introduction - Identifying new disruptive technologies to provide business value at Caterpillar
• Solution development - Provide solution option development including digital vendor selection support for selected, complex business or digital capability needs. In some cases, this could include managing a proof of concept or proof of technology
• Governance - Provide decision support in accordance to the EA facilitated governance processes (Architecture Review Board, Architecture

& Security Review, Peer Reviews)

• Accelerator development - Create position papers, standards and patterns that can be leveraged by digital delivery organizations to speed up and improve the quality of solution designs. This includes education and stewardship of a matrix architect community embedded in digital delivery teams
• Coach and manage a team of Digital Architects to accomplish the above listed responsibilities. This includes
• Following the standard Caterpillar HR processes in hiring, developing and evaluating employees
• Work planning and assignment to achieve goals
• Budget management

• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:

• Must have a minimum Bachelor\'s degree, advanced degree preferred 12+ years of experience in information technology planning and operations, architecture design and deployment, information systems design and development, systems lifecycle management
• Strong demonstratable experience leading architecture development for enterprise scale systems in public cloud and hybrid eco-systems.
• Familiarity with public cloud technologies and best practices for implementing two or more from the following: massive real-time event and message processing, data lakes, Big Data transformations and analytics, complex e-commerce applications, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL and NoSQL data modeling
• Team leadership, management and budget responsibility experience required
• Leadership experience of a major IT strategy program (selling idea, executing strategy development, successful transfer of organization for realization of strategy) such as Portfolio Rationalization, Information Strategy or infrastructure Optimization
• Leadership experience in defining the operating model and organizational structure of a Digital Architecture organization
• Demonstrated excellent planning and organizational skills with an established track record of positively influencing change
• Excellent verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills
• Familiar with project management methodologies (Waterfall and Agile) and Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g. Troux)
• Prefer candidates with architecture certifications (TOGAF or similar) Relocation is available for this position.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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