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.

Role Definition
Leads and coordinates all activities for a team developing a product, component or system.

Responsibilities
•    Provides technical support, and direction to teams and team leaders. Acquires resources necessary to accomplish work on time.
•    Oversees performance of individual team members and team as a whole. Identifies and addresses staff training and development needs.
•    Coordinates walkthroughs and reviews; ensures conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications.
•    Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Monitors and troubleshoots performance and schedule issues.

Skill Descriptors
Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.
•    Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.
•    Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.
•    Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.
•    Assesses own unit's product alternatives, costs, and pricing.

Organizational Leadership: Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.
•    Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
•    Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
•    Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
•    Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
•    Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
 Level Expert: 
•    Oversees the evaluation and selection of developer's workbench and tool-kits.
•    Contributes to the development of best practices.
•    Monitors industry benchmarks for effectiveness of development; makes recommendations.
•    Introduces new software product development approaches that expedite or simplify delivery.
•    Demonstrates significant experience in building complex software products or systems.
•    Discusses process and criteria for determining best development process and tools.

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Explains how to use multiple, vendor-provided or in-house structured methodologies.
•    Describes tasks, tools and practices for converting software product requirements into a design.
•    Demonstrates experience with all phases and deliverables of the product development methodology.
•    Implements the generic functions, features and facilities of modern structured methods.
•    Explores and evaluates major structured methodologies available in the marketplace.
•    Consults on effective application of structured product development methodologies.

Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Works on designing scalable and efficient ETL models and templates.
•    Compares and contrasts Integration issues with different operating systems and architectures.
•    Consults on the design and development of customized interfaces for specific clients.
•    Demonstrates experience with developing interfaces for multiple software partners and platforms.
•    Explains requirements and considerations for data movement that involve platform conversion.
•    Oversees the analysis, design and development of transformation codes.

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
•    Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
•    Explains design considerations for commercial database systems, operating systems and web.
•    Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
•    Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
•    Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Software Quality Assurance and Testing: Knowledge of software quality assurance and testing; ability to apply appropriate processes, tools, and techniques for assuring a high level of quality in computer software products and systems.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Consults on quality metrics and benchmarks; assess QA contribution.
•    Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and presents to others.
•    Coordinates execution of test plans, including resources, strategy, schedules, processes and tools.
•    Communicates benefits and costs of a quality management process vis-a-vis costs of poor quality.
•    Provides insight into the full spectrum of approaches for quality assuring of technology products.
•    Can discuss pros and cons of alternative quality assurance and testing methods.

IT Service Management (ITSM): Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) service; ability to manage IT services and oversee service operations.
 Level Expert: 
•    Oversees the establishment and use of best practices in IT service management.
•    Leads in the development of information technology and personal technical skills.
•    Promotes the use of standard procedures in each function of IT services.
•    Creates criteria to measure professional services; ensures the quality of IT services.
•    Forecasts technological industry trends and potential risks in IT service management.
•    Provides insight into system optimization and development of process-focused IT services.
 

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

March 5, 2026 - March 12, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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