Senior Digital Architect
Caterpillar
Senior Digital Architect
Caterpillar
Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and DataJob 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.
Your Impact 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.
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Senior Digital Architect – (GCC Lead Architect) to join our App Services for DT&D GCIO-CAT IT Division.
This incumbent would be responsible for indirect tax advisory for business queries, projects and technical research to support India indirect tax planning/advisory initiatives. The position requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure accurate tax positions.
The preference for this role is to be based out of Chennai WTC centre or Bangalore PSN office
What you will do
What you will have
Desired Skills:
Skills desired:
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Works with specific development platforms, system and program design tools.
• Participates in the technical design of a specific application.
• Selects and presents design alternatives for applications of small to medium complexity.
• Defines tasks, activities, deliverables and key concerns of technical design.
• Assists in reviewing and documenting technical application designs.
Data Architecture: Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Participates in designing blueprints on how to structure, store and utilize data.
• Follows standards, processes and methodologies to develop each phase of data architecture (e.g. data manipulating processes, database technology generating processes).
• Selects criteria used to support data processing operations, data flow and the flow control system.
• Addresses stakeholder concerns by utilizing business data modeling, including data entities, attributes and their relationships.
• Performs administrative work and provides technical solutions for routine problems in data architecture projects.
IT Architecture: Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Assists in the investigation of an organization's IT requirements.
• Assesses the functionality of components - hardware, software and telecommunications.
• Adheres to IT architecture guidelines and principles.
• Selects design tools and technologies for IT architecture.
• Documents problems that occur in the IT architecture design process.
Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Designs routine platform architectural roadmaps and relevant solutions for end-users to access interfaces.
• Follows existing processes and standards in developing IT systems for information storing, delivering and optimizing.
• Selects appropriate operating systems, hardware and programming languages to operate platform processing.
• Tests the effectiveness of platform architecture and ensures that business requirements are fully met, while using the platform architecture.
• Solves routine problems in the design process of platform architectural roadmaps; documents these issues.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.
Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Analyzes the future state of IT needed to meet stakeholder requirements; summarizes business objectives into several actionable sub-targets.
• Follows existing processes and standards in the design and development of IT architecture.
• Develops roadmaps for target architecture based on models of business services (e.g. applications, data and systems).
• Reports on progress made in developing the target architecture; tackles obstacles encountered throughout the design process.
• Provides routine solutions to issues and recommendations for projects in target architecture development.
What you will get:
Holistic Development
Health and Wellness
Financial Wellness
Additional Information:
Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, 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
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
Posting Dates:
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines
Caterpillar makes construction and mining machines, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and locomotives for contractors, mines, energy companies and data center builders. It is the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and its yellow Cat bulldozers and excavators work in nearly every country. Customers buy or rent machines through independent Cat dealers, while its engines and turbines generate electricity and push natural gas through pipelines. Caterpillar earns money from equipment sales and from the parts and repairs that dealers supply over a machine's working life. It was formed in 1925 when California's Holt and Best tractor companies merged, and it is based in Irving, Texas.
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