Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
As a Digital Architect, your primary responsibility will be the new Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) area within the Cat Digital Operations Team responsible for Caterpillar's eCommerce ecosystem. Support the ongoing execution by helping establish SLIs and SLOs adhering to Caterpillar standards, refining performance targets, enabling Observability dashboards leveraging golden signals targeting business and technical audiences, and enforcing best practices. Automate by design and help drive the quality of the releases, system performance, and code quality, targeting customers worldwide.
Cat Commerce (Parts.cat.com & Shop.cat.com) is powered by HCL Commerce v9.1 hosted on the AWS platform.
JOB DUTIES:
This position is recognized within the Cat Digital community as an expert in their technical or business sub-domain. The Digital Architect will create and maintain architectural best practices, addressing application, data and technology in the context of business process across defined business functions(s) or technology domain(s).
Key areas of accountability include participating in the development of Architecture Solutions for Strategic Cat Digital projects and programs; provide input into global technology roadmaps and application evolution plans; act as a researcher and evaluator of new technology, information or integration standards; and participate in IT digital strategy development for a specific technical or business domain.
Responsibilities include one or more of the following:
Participate in the Architecture assessment and design for infrastructure domains that provide core capabilities for the enterprise.
Lead Architecture design of integrated systems across site or regional projects and programs.
Participate in the design and implementation of enterprise data model and metadata structures.
Define which data is extracted and the rules by which it is transformed for simple to moderately complex projects.
Participate in technology evaluation and recommendations.
Participate in the development and maintenance of current and planned state architecture blue prints.
Provides input for Cat Digital Technology and Application Rationalization efforts.
Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
Participates in the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the Enterprise Architecture.
Assist in the development and alignment of the digital roadmaps with the Digital and Business strategy.
Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.The position is challenged to identify problems quickly and correctly, some which may not be obvious. The incumbent solves problems by determining the best course of action with oversight as appropriate, within departmental guidelines, from many existing solutions. Communications for needed investments, architectural changes, or business needs is critical to ensure solutions can be created to meet strategic business capability needs
SKILLS:
Common Skills: Leadership, Team working, Inter-personal and Influential skills. Business Skills & Methods: - Business case development, business process mapping, strategic planning. Enterprise Architecture Skills: - architecture modeling, building block design, applications and role design and systems integration Program or Project Management Skills: - Managing business change, project management methods and tools, etc. Digital General Knowledge Skills: - Brokering applications, asset management, migration planning, SLAs, etc. Technical Skills: - Deep expertise in one to many areas including software engineering, security, data interchange, data management, network, database, servers, storage, collaboration or other technical areas.
Basic qualifications:
Typically, this position will require an accredited, four-year Information Technology degree, a closely related technical degree, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 8 years of development or system administration experience
Strong ability to demonstrate experience delivering component, product, and/or enterprise architecture in the public cloud and/or hybrid cloud ecosystems
Must be able to demonstrate experience in one or more of 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
Coding experience in Java, Spring, Python, or equivalent
Deep understanding of Application Monitoring tools AppDynamics or Dynatrace or similar
CloudWatch, Splunk or similar
Azure CI/CD DevOps process & pipeline or similar (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
QuickBuild or similar to automate jobs and tasks
Top candidates will also have:
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Performance team experience
AWS Certification in DevOps, Solution Architecture
Prior experience with HCL Commerce solution
Understanding of Agile SDLC implementation in the public cloud ecosystem, including environment management, test automation, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.
Familiarity with machine learning and data analytics
Certification in TOGAF or a similar framework
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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
