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Caterpillar

Makes heavy machinery, engines and gas turbines

Digital Business Analyst

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026Deadline 11/2/26
$89.2k - $133.8k+ Incentive bonus
Mid
Bachelor's
Peoria, IL, USA+2 moreMore locations: Chicago, IL, USA | Irving, TX, USA
In Person
Business & StrategyBusiness Analysis
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Knowledge of business analysis and the tasks, techniques, and tools used to identify business needs and recommend stakeholder-value solutions.
  • Knowledge of decision-making processes, tools, and techniques, with the ability to analyze situations and reach informed decisions.
  • Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques to accurately transmit, receive, and interpret ideas, information, and needs.
  • Knowledge of user acceptance testing activities, tasks, tools, and techniques, with the ability to design, implement, and evaluate end-user acceptance tests.
  • A bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience is considered for top candidates.
  • Experience in technical, product, business analyst, or solution delivery roles, bridging business and technology teams.
  • Strong understanding of application development concepts, system integrations, application programming interfaces, and JSON-based data structures and responses.
  • Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements for software solutions.
  • Experience creating and maintaining functional design documents, process flows, solution documentation, and feature specifications.
  • Ability to decompose complex business requirements into workflows, user stories, epics, and actionable development tasks.
  • Experience defining acceptance criteria and supporting test case development.
  • Experience partnering with Quality Assurance teams and supporting user acceptance testing activities.
  • Experience managing, prioritizing, and maintaining product backlogs in Azure DevOps.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions, service processes, and content authoring or knowledge management environments.
  • Experience creating process maps, workflow diagrams, and solution documentation to communicate business and technical requirements.
  • Proficiency with SharePoint.
  • Experience leveraging artificial intelligence-powered tools to improve productivity, documentation, requirements analysis, content creation, and solution delivery effectiveness.
Responsibilities
  • Engage business stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, pain points, and desired outcomes.
  • Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements from stakeholders, product owners, and user experience designers.
  • Facilitate requirements discussions and translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications in Azure DevOps work-item tracking.
  • Create and use custom agentic artificial intelligence skills to generate structured user stories and acceptance criteria; specify the agent's role, input sources, core processing loop, validation rules, and output format.
  • Identify gaps, conflicting requirements, process dependencies, and impacts to upstream and downstream processes.
  • Maintain traceability between business requirements, solution design, testing, and implementation.
  • Facilitate workshops, interviews, and collaborative sessions with cross-functional teams, including user experience designers, software engineers, Quality Assurance, and DevOps engineers, within an Agile/Scrum delivery model.
  • Support backlog refinement and sprint planning by ensuring stories are well-defined, prioritized, and accompanied by clear acceptance criteria before entering a sprint.
  • Collaborate with frontend React and backend Java/Spring Boot engineers to validate that implemented features meet requirements, including real-time RESTful application programming interface behaviors and JSON responses.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to define test scenarios, participate in user acceptance testing, and verify delivered software against functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Maintain traceability between business requirements, user stories, and test cases throughout the software development life cycle.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence is preferred.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

About the company

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.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Irving, Texas

Founded

1925

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Data centers drive growth: power generation sales jumped 72% in the June 2026 quarter on demand for generators and turbines.
  • Factory hiring is growing: a $1 billion North Carolina plant, announced September 2026, is expected to create 1,950 jobs.
  • Recurring service work adds stability: parts and service brought in $24 billion in 2025, over a third of sales.

What critics are saying

  • Tariffs keep getting costlier: in August 2026, Caterpillar forecast $2.2 billion of 2026 tariff costs, up from 2025's $1.8 billion.
  • Patent fight threatens imports: in December 2025, rival Bobcat asked US trade regulators to ban some Cat loaders and excavators.
  • Expect five office days a week: since June 2025, US office staff must come in daily, and attendance affects reviews.

What makes Caterpillar unique

  • Power, not bulldozers, is its biggest business: engines and turbines brought in $28.6 billion in 2025, topping construction's $25.1 billion.
  • It runs its own lender: Cat Financial's overdue loans fell to 1.31% in June 2026, the lowest since 1998.
  • It also makes gas turbines: San Diego-based Solar Turbines builds 1 to 39 megawatt units for pipelines and power.

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Benefits

  • Annual incentive bonus plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
  • 401k savings plan
  • Health savings account (HSA)
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Healthy Lifestyle Programs
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

2%
CNBC
Oct 21st, 2026
Tokenized stock trading surges overseas to $11.31B on Robinhood Chain as Goldman, Microsoft object in US

Tokenized stock trading is growing overseas while major US companies resist it at home, according to Bitwise Asset Management's latest quarterly report. On Robinhood Chain, tokenized stock volume rose from $526 million in July to $2.21 billion in August, then to $11.31 billion in September. Tokenized equities were also the fastest-growing category on Solana. Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald's, Western Digital, and Alphabet have objected to tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKXICE, a venue launched by crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange. Sixteen companies have now objected. The US Securities and Exchange Commission's innovation exemption lets companies opt out. OKXICE co-chairman Andrew Cuomo said many companies would "wait and see" before taking part.

PR Newswire
Oct 14th, 2026
Caterpillar maintains $1.63 quarterly dividend, with record date corrected to October 26

Caterpillar Inc. has kept its quarterly dividend at $1.63 per share of common stock. The board of directors voted to maintain the payout, which is due November 19 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 26. Caterpillar has paid a quarterly dividend since 1933. This payment will mark 33 consecutive years of higher annual dividends, and the company is a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. The company reported 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 13th, 2026
Caterpillar's $72B backlog tests data centre power boom as stock trades at 33.9 times earnings

Caterpillar's shares trade at 33.9 times earnings, against 21.9 for the S&P 500. A concern raised on its August 4, 2026 earnings call is that data centres may slow their orders for its power equipment in a few years. Power generation sales to end users rose 72% in the second quarter, driven by demand for large gensets and turbines. Management said no customer is slowing down. Power & Energy, its largest segment, had $32.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2025, up 11.6%, and $8.2 billion in the latest quarter, up 17%. Some customers are ordering as far out as 2030. Backlog stood at $72 billion, with 59% due for delivery within twelve months. The stock is down 24.8% from its 52-week high but returned 61% over the past year.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 13th, 2026
Analysts favour Caterpillar over Deere, seeing 20% upside versus 10%

Analysts see more upside in Caterpillar than in Deere, based on Wall Street price targets. The average target for Caterpillar is about $971, 20% above its $811 share price. Deere's average target is about $694, roughly 10% above its $633 price. Both stocks have had a strong 2026. Caterpillar is up 41% year to date and Deere about 36%, against 14% for the S&P 500. Caterpillar's second-quarter revenue rose 24% to $20.5 billion, and adjusted earnings per share jumped 73%. Power and energy sales surged 72% on data centre demand, and its order backlog hit $72 billion, up 92% in a year. Deere's third-quarter revenue rose 5% to $12.6 billion, with earnings per share up 7.3% to $5.10. It expects agricultural equipment demand to recover in 2027.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 10th, 2026
Caterpillar hits record $20B quarter while Corning targets $40B by 2030

Investors weighing Caterpillar against Corning are choosing between industrial infrastructure and technological innovation. Caterpillar, a construction and mining equipment manufacturer, generated $67.6 billion in revenue in FY 2025, up 4.3%, though net income fell to $8.9 billion from $10.8 billion the previous year. Corning, a materials science company supplying optical communications and display technologies, posted stronger growth. Its FY 2025 revenue reached $15.6 billion, up 19.1%, whilst net income surged to $1.6 billion from $506 million. The company secured a multi-billion-dollar supply agreement with AT&T extending through 2030. Caterpillar trades at a forward P/E of 30.0x versus Corning's 49.7x, reflecting Corning's faster growth trajectory. Corning's optical communications business grew over 30% year-over-year, driven by AI data centre demand, with ambitious revenue targets of $20 billion by end-2026 and $40 billion by 2030. Despite Caterpillar's record backlog and reliable dividend, Corning's AI infrastructure exposure offers more compelling growth potential for patient investors.