Data Specialist

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Job Summary

The Aftermarket Parts Packaging team is seeking an AI & Digital Solutions Engineer to develop, maintain, and continuously improve the artificial intelligence-enabled tools and digital applications that support packaging engineering.

This role will be the team’s hands-on technical owner, working with packaging engineers and IT partners to quickly deliver enhancements, business-rule changes, workflows, integrations, and new capabilities using Snowflake data, artificial intelligence, analytics, and enterprise systems, including the internal packaging application EPSA.

What You Will Do

Packaging AI Solutions and Continuous Improvement

• Serve as the technical expert and lead on implementing changes for Aftermarket Parts Packaging artificial intelligence and digital tools.
• Work directly with packaging engineers, IT partners, data owners, and application owners to translate packaging requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Contribute to solution design, data preparation, integration, testing, user acceptance, deployment, and production support.
• Maintain, configure, update, and continuously improve deployed artificial intelligence solutions.
• Implement approved changes to business rules, prompts, workflows, user interfaces, data mappings, reports, and integrations through agile delivery.
• Monitor performance, user feedback, recurring issues, data quality, and override patterns to identify improvements.
• Maintain documentation, test evidence, version history, and release records.

Application and Solution Development

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full-stack web applications and cloud-based solutions.
• Build application programming interfaces and backend services that use Snowflake and other enterprise data platforms.
• Develop applications, utilities, agents, workflows, and decision-support tools for Aftermarket Parts Packaging.
• Perform enhancements to existing packaging applications, including the Salesforce-based internal packaging application EPSA.
• Use secure development, automated testing, code review, version control, logging, monitoring, and release-management practices.

AI, Data, and Enterprise Integration

• Create artificial intelligence-enabled applications, agents, search experiences, and engineering workflows using enterprise technologies.
• Translate packaging standards, calculations, business rules, processes, and expert knowledge into tested decision logic and maintainable digital solutions.
• Develop data pipelines, analytics, application programming interfaces, and integrations connecting Snowflake, packaging applications, Salesforce-based solutions, and other platforms.
• Include appropriate human review, exception handling, auditability, and rollback for higher-risk decisions and integrations.
• Follow enterprise requirements for architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, access management, change management, and production releases.

What You Have

Application Development

• React.js, TypeScript, Hypertext Markup Language, and Cascading Style Sheets
• Python, including FastAPI or a similar framework
• Web-based application programming interfaces and full-stack application architecture
• Application security, automated testing, logging, monitoring, and production support

Cloud and DevOps

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Functions, App Services, or similar services
• Git, code review, continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Docker, release management, and rollback

Data and AI

• Strong structured query language and cloud data-platform experience
• Data modeling, transformation, quality validation, and integration
• Large language model applications, retrieval-based artificial intelligence, prompts, agents, and search
• Ability to combine business rules, enterprise data, artificial intelligence output, and human review

Enterprise Integration

• Application programming interface-based system integration and workflow automation
• Experience enhancing and supporting enterprise applications
• Experience working within formal security, change, release, and support processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake structured query language, Snowpark Python, or Snowflake Cortex.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, LangChain, or LangGraph.
• Experience with Salesforce configuration or development, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, or Salesforce application programming interfaces.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform or Power BI.
• Experience supporting and continuously improving enterprise artificial intelligence solutions after launch.
• Knowledge of packaging, supply chain, manufacturing, aftermarket, or engineering processes.

Experience

• 5+ years of full-stack application development experience.
• 3+ years of cloud-based solution development experience.
• Experience developing applications against a modern cloud data platform; direct Snowflake experience is preferred.
• Experience building artificial intelligence-enabled applications or intelligent workflows.
• Experience supporting solutions from requirements and design through deployment and ongoing improvement.

What is Success in This Role

• Aftermarket Parts Packaging has a capable, hands-on technical expert for its artificial intelligence and digital tools.
• Packaging tools continue to improve as requirements, data, workflows, and user needs change.
• Enhancements are developed, tested, and released quickly.
• Solutions remain secure, maintainable, documented, tested, and monitored.
• Packaging engineers receive practical digital tools that reduce manual work, improve consistency, and support better decisions.

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of India which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of a variable bonus. Additional benefits include paid annual leave, flexi leave, medical and insurance (prorated based upon hire date).

Final Details:

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If you are interested in joining our team, please apply using an English version of your CV. We look forward to meeting you!

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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