Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

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.

Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Lead Digital Architect to join our App Services for DT&D; GCIO - CAT IT Division.

Location Preference: Bangalore - Caterpillar PSN / Chennai - WTC

Schedule: 5-day work week

Shift Timing: 01:00-10:00 PM IST

Position Title: Lead Architect

Job Location: Chennai or Bangalore

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 creative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

for Lead Architect with 15 Years of ExperienceJob Responsibilities:

- Experience in architecting large scale applications. Responsible for the high- and low-level design.
- Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies.
- Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in a multi-threaded, distributed environment.
- Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns.
- Manage applications source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle - implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions.
- Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines.
- Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
- Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging,



and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure.
- Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output.

Required Skills:

- More than 14 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, Liquibase/Flyway.
- Experience in providing technical solutions and architecture. Understand business requirements and provide high- and low-level designs.
- Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business.
- Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular frameworks.
- Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them.
- Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with a focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience in developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models.
- Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing.

Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.

- Experience with developing applications using Microservices with containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns.
- Ability to quickly learn up-to-date technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective.
- A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
- Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos.
- Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc.
- Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions.
- Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS using AWS Cloudformation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana/Prometheus/Cloudwatch, API Gateway.
- Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development.
- Experience with DevOps/security tools - Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc.
- An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices.
- Understanding of Rest, GraphQL, gRPC.
- Familiarity with two or more Databases - DB2, PostgreSQL etc.




- Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.).

Desired Skills:

- Experience with APIGee is a huge plus.
- Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
- Experience working with corporate security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and remediation activities (Risk Acceptance, Security Configuration Baseline).
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
- Experience in identifying security policies for cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS).
- Experience working with SonarQube, CodeQL, Rapid7, Artifactory/XRay, Fortify tools.

Skill Descriptors: 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.

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.

Application Design, Architecture:

- Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.

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.

IT Architecture:

- Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations.

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.

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.

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.

Posting Dates: Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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