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.
Enterprise Architect Manager
Job Summary
Creates the strategies, activities and manages staff responsible for emerging IT services architecture and design.
What You Will Do:
- Develop and implement the IT architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards in alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, business leaders, and technical teams to define, design, and document IT solutions that meet emerging business requirements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms to identify opportunities for improvement, innovation, and cost optimization.
- Manage a team of IT architects, providing strategic leadership and guidance to achieve enterprise objectives.
What You Have:
+ Strategy development & execution: Experience leading, developing, socializing, and executing IT strategies and roadmaps in an overly complex environment.
+ Relationship management: Collaborating and managing partner and peer relationships to achieve business outcomes by leading through influence and direct accountability in a matrixed environment.
+ Customer-focused: Strong business and financial acumen with a “customer back” mindset.
+ Software engineering & development: Designing and building digital and technology solutions that strengthen the core business and pioneer the future with expanded offerings that grow services.
+ Data & information enablement: Unleashing the power of data and information to manage the business, improve business results and outcomes.
+ Talent Management: Adept at leading and inspiring global, multi-sourced teams to deliver high quality, transformational capabilities.
+ Enterprise mindset: Demonstrate our values and act on behalf of the entire company.
+ Customer-focused: Build solutions and solve problems by starting with the customer and working backwards.
+ Accountability: Act as an owner of the company with high integrity and transparency.
+ Curious: Seek to understand new opportunities and possibilities.
+ Strategic: Think big and proactively anticipate capability needs.
+ Results-oriented: Have a bias for action and take calculated risks to stay at par with the speed of business.
Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
- Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
- Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Partnering for Customer Success: Knowledge of and insight into customers’ key objectives and ability to work and think alongside clients to achieve customers to achieve current and future aspirations and successes.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Customizes solutions to meet dynamic current and future needs using company’s products, services and capabilities efficiently and effectively.
- Collaborates with internal and external experts and consultants to develop solutions that can add significant value to the enterprise.
- Partners with customers to respond to new business conditions or challenges using one’s own expertise and capabilities with enthusiasm.
- Advises others on best practices to solve problems and improve the effectiveness of outcomes.
- Helps customers to reconstruct their perceptions about their current business to explore alternative solutions and increase success.
- Recommends improvements to current business processes.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
- Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of “big picture” thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Implements the group’s go-to-market strategy.
- Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
- Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
- Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
- Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
Organizational Change Mgmt.: Knowledge of techniques to successfully effect change in an organization and ability to manage the successful and smooth transition from current to desired culture, practices, structure, and overall organizational environment.
Level Expert:
- Coaches others in techniques for implementing change across multiple units or functions.
- Monitors industry for noteworthy changes and for examples of good change management.
- Directs the process of defining desired organizational traits, functions, and services.
- Champions importance of building commitment and allocating resources to make change happen.
- Shapes the design and implementation of transition strategies and communications campaigns.
- Leads in defining the organization’s vision and mission.
Emerging Technologies: Knowledge of emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates best practices of emerging information technologies to learn and understand principles and applications.
- Evaluates business accuracy and productivity levels derived from information technology influences.
- Guides junior-level staff on the effective implementation of new information technologies within the organization.
- Determines long-term, strategic requi
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