Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
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.
Your Impact 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.
What does it mean to live the Caterpillar Experience
It means you play a part in building a better world. You contribute to a winning culturea spirit of accountabilitythat has driven change on every continent for more than 90 years. To work with us is a commitment to improve sustainability, invent for the digital age and innovate in order to bring solutions to millions of people. Sure, you work for Caterpillar. But more importantly, you work for the good of your career, your family, your community, and your world.
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned
Full stack Enterprise Applications Architect (Lead Digital Architect
) to technically lead high-performing engineering teams in building scalable, secure, and innovative Enterprise grade Applications. This role involves technical leadership, developing people, and strategic collaboration to align engineering efforts with business goals.to join our
Informatics &Connected Worksite
-
CAT IT Team.
The preference for this role is to be based out of
Chennai - Brigade World Trade Center & Bangalore PSN office-KA -India
What You Will Do:
- Drive the design, development, and deployment of robust software systems aligned with organisational objectives.
- Support project planning, resource allocation, and performance tracking to ensure timely and quality delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Implement and optimise engineering processes, tools, and infrastructure for efficiency and scalability.
- Ensure adherence to architectural standards, security best practices, and compliance requirements.
- Provide technical guidance in Java Services, Angular/React Web frontend, cloud platforms (AWS), microservices, and DevOps practices.
- Support career development of technical people, and recruitment efforts.
- Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and deli
What You Will Have:
- 10+ years of Enterprise software product development experience with strong coding and architectural skills.
- 5+ years of experience working in Application development involving multiple agile teams and driving technical decisions.
- Proficient in Java, Angular/React, cloud services (AWS/Azure), CI/CD, and modern architectural patterns.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and application security.
- Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, etc.) and API tools (Bruno/Postman, Swagger).
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong proficiency in Java, JavaScript, with hands-on experience in Java/React and Angular.
- Proficiency in web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 etc.
- Exposure to Quality Assurance standards and Unit Testing/End to end testing technologies.
- Exposure to containerisation technologies like Docker and ECS or Kubernetes.
- Willing to work in EAME Shift (1PM to 10PM IST)
- This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office
Skills Desired:
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
- Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
- Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
- Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
- Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
- Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
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.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
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 design.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Facilitates in application design reviews and walkthroughs.
- Creates and evaluates technical alternatives for complex applications.
- Interprets application services such as API; integrates them with technical design.
- Develops various, distinct and multiple technical application designs.
- Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.
- Explores and evaluates application design considerations for multiple technologies.
Data Architecture:
Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Monitors data architecture design processes (e.g. interface to data), in accordance with existing processes and standards.
- Recommends improvements to data architecture processes to ensure high quality of data architecture deliverables and consistency.
- Coordinates data architecture project resources to effectively achieve business goals.
- Guides junior data architects on considerations in the design of architecture building blocks.
- Anticipates any obstacles and makes plans accordingly to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully reflected in data architecture outcomes.
- Solves moderately complex issues in target data architecture design processes (e.g. data management process modeling, data entity matrix design).
IT Architecture:
Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Consults on planning, integrating and migrating IT architecture.
- Provides IT architecture solutions based on business and technical requirements.
- Creates cohesive IT architecture applications for information and platforms.
- Oversees the compliance of IT architecture principles for an organization.
- Evaluates IT architecture standards and policies to learn its principles and practices.
- Directs the discussion of issues and considerations for adopting an open architecture.
Platform 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Monitors the compliance of platform architecture processes and standards and alignment with business objectives.
- Guides less experienced platform architects on the techniques and approaches used in design processes.
- Advises others on providing high quality deliverables of platform architectural roadmaps to fully satisfy client needs.
- Recommends improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of platform modeling standard processes.
- Teaches cross-team technology members about their roles and responsibilities associated with allocating resources to various platforms.
- Resolves moderately complex issues that occur in platform modeling and roadmaps design 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.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
- Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
- Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
- Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
- Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.
Target Architecture:
Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Designs each phase in the target architectural process and selects corresponding portfolio of services to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully met.
- Monitors target architectural processes to ensure that they are in line with business strategies and objectives.
- Advises others on implementing quality assurance deliverables and estimated outcomes for target architecture.
- Guides less experienced architects in the processes involved in analyzing target architecture.
- Coordinates architectural resources to ensure that the future state of IT meets client requirements.
- Provides solutions to moderately complex architectural modeling problems and significant barriers encountered in the target architecture design process.
What You Will Get:
- Work Life Harmony
- Earned and medical leave.
- Relocation assistance
Holistic Development
- Personal and professional development through Caterpillar s employee resource groups across the globe
- Career developments opportunities with global prospects
Health and Wellness
- Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
- Employee mental wellness assistance program
Financial Wellness
- Employee investment plan
- Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.
Additional Information:
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 the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers
Posting Dates:
December 2, 2025 - December 15, 2025Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to applyNot ready to apply Join our Talent Community.
