at Caterpillar, Inc. in East Peoria, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Business Technologies, 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.
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 culture-a spirit of accountability-that 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:
Caterpillar IT GCIO SD&D are looking for AWS Technical Architect.
AWS Technical Architect will enable Caterpillar to deliver value to the bottom line by modernizing many of its legacy applications including, Warranty, parts pricing, and inventory management. You will provide solutions for IT and business management on applying modern technology to business opportunities, planning and implementation of cross-functional applications.
You will also provide expertise to solve business challenges and achieve profitable business strategies leveraging Caterpillar’s global footprint.
As AWS technical lead you will interface with product owners, IT architects, stakeholders, senior leadership, technical or non-technical teams, and Program Managers to design scalable technical solutions for many of our modernization projects to meet the future needs of our business partners.
What You Will Do:
+ Define and implement architecture designs that consider functionality, cost, performance, scalability, reusability, security, and extensibility.
+ Enhance our cloud capability by creating and implementing cloud-first patterns.
+ Plays a leadership role in defining systems integration processes and practices.
+ Work closely with Caterpillar IT & Cat Digital architects and SM to create and maintain architecture artifacts, operational documents, and automation playbooks.
+ Provide consulting services to internal business and IT teams on process improvement projects designed to improve business values.
+ Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to facilitate the delivery of solutions that align with business objectives in a cost-efficient manner.
+ Actively seek ways to improve processes and interactions.
+ Answers product owners, stakeholders and downstream application support questions; provides guidance and support for product integration and infrastructure issues.
+ Anticipate complex business problems or process optimization opportunities, identify alternatives, and recommend the best solutions working closely with global functional teams and Enterprise Architecture.
+ Assist SM, Technical lead and development teams to analyze, define and document client’s requirements, and revise existing systems logic challenges, as necessary. Provides insight into developing diverse and multiple requirements analyses.
+ Adapt to diverse business climates.
+ Participate on 2-3 projects concurrently.
Basic qualifications:
+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
+ At least 5+ years of experience in designing solutions using at least three disciplines: cloud architecture (AWS), software development, data platform integration, business processes and capabilities, focusing on scalability, security, performance, and cost to serve.
+ Experience working on large-scale projects and with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as Snowflake, MySQL, …
+ Excellent skills in message brokers such as Kafka, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache ActiveMQ, ..
+ Excellent skills in application architectural patterns such as MVC, Microservices, or Event driven.
+ Experience in writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge or AWS API Gateway
+ Experience in automation testing tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Web driver I/O and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
+ Experience in data storage solutions such as Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake … Demonstrate strong initiative to research and apply new solutions to exceed customer expectations.
+ Have excellent collaboration skills.
Top candidates will have proven experience in the following:
+ Current or prior experience in IA
+ Good effective communications skills being able to explain conclusions to our business partners.
+ Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
+ Utilizing CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps
+ Agile Scrum Master certification or experience with Agile methodology
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 an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Additional Info:
The primary location for this position is East Peoria, IL or Chicago, IL.
Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.
This position may require 20% travel.
Sponsorship is not available.
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.
Posting Dates:
August 7, 2024 – August 8, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals – Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities – are encouraged to apply.
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