IT Solution Specialist

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information Security Technologies: Knowledge of technologies and technology-based solutions dealing with information security issues; ability to protect information security across the organization using encryption technologies and appropriate security software.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Explains how a firewall restricts access to information resources.

- Discusses why both user-IDs and passwords are required to manage access.

- Identifies different types of technology used for information security purposes.

- Describes basic types or groups of security software and hardware.

Additional Details:

Location: Dallas, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; East Peoria, Illinois

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.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. 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:

July 26, 2024 – August 4, 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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