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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.

We are seeking a skilled Lead Data Engineer (Lead Data Scientist) to join our Pricing Analytics – Enterprise Strategy - Global Financial Division Team . You will lead the design and delivery of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and cloud solutions that power global pricing decisions. You will provide technical leadership to the team, solve complex data challenges, and ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and maintainable. Working with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders, you will set technical direction, develop engineering talent, and drive the delivery of high-impact data and AI solutions.

Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and data products.

Own delivery of complex data engineering initiatives from design through production.

Mentor engineers and help develop technical capabilities across the team.

Establish best practices for Python, Git, CI/CD, testing, data quality, and observability.

Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, performance issues, and production challenges.

Experience leading technical teams, projects, or major engineering initiatives.

Data Engineering:



Extensive experience designing and building scalable production data platforms and pipelines.

Software Engineering: Strong Python development skills and modern software engineering practices.

Cloud Engineering: Experience architecting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions.

Extensive experience in designing and developing software applications in Python.

Experience with AI assisted software development (ex. Extensive experience working with Git version control

Extensive experience deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Github Actions, Azure Devops etc.

Experience with AWS components such as Bedrock, Lambda, Fargate, S3, Sagemaker, IAM and RDS

Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, etc.

Demonstrated architecture experience

Experience leading teams

The position requires the candidate to work a 5-a day -week schedule in the office

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

Relocation assistance is available for this position

Generates and interprets basic statistical data.

Level Extensive Experience:

Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; to disclose meaningful data patterns.

Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Machine Learning: Knowledge of principles, technologies and algorithms of machine learning; Completes specific tasks and initiatives utilizing machine learning technologies, such as search engine optimization.

Applies specific computing languages and tools in machine learning, such as R and Python.

Explores to use machine learning in one own areas to make business improvements.

Conducts data mining and cleaning initiatives.

Programming Languages: Knowledge of basic concepts and capabilities of programming; ability to use tools,



techniques and platforms in order to write and modify programming languages.

Participates in the implementation and support of specialized programming languages.

Conducts basic reviews on writing a specific programming language within a specific platform.

Assists with the design and development of specialized programming languages.

Follows an organization's standards, policies and guidelines for structured programming specifications.

Diagnoses and reports minor or routine programming language problems.

Query and Database Access Tools: Knowledge of data management systems; ability to use, support and access facilities for searching, extracting and formatting data for further use.

Defines, creates and tests straightforward queries by using associated command language in a specific environment.

Applies appropriate query tools used to connect to the data warehouse.

Works with advanced features and functions including sorting, filtering and making simple calculations.

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.

Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.

Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.

Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.Work Life Harmony

Earned and medical leave.

Relocation assistance

Personal and professional development through Caterpillar 's employee resource groups across the globe

Career developments opportunities with global prospects

Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage

Employee mental wellness assistance program

Financial Wellness

Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

S. which can be found through our employment website at

All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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