Principal Analytics Architect (ML/AI)

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.
Role Definition
Participates in defining functional design, development and systems architecture for Caterpillar's state-of-the-art digital platform aligning to common department goals in line with CAT Digital Strategy. Principal Digital Architect will assist teams that will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.
Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight for architecture assessment and design for infrastructure, information or integration domains that provide core capabilities for the enterprise.
• Lead Architecture design of end-to-end enterprise integrated systems that serves multiple business functions.
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data model and metadata structures for complex projects.
• Drive architecture and design patterns for various AI and ML related models, and services.
• Passion for applying state-of-the art AI algorithms to real-world problems.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in AI and related fields, evaluate new developments and technologies for potential integration into existing and future architecture. Initiate and deliver technology evaluation and recommendations.
• Develop and maintain current, planned, and future state architecture blueprints. Lead in the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers and requirements that drive the future state architecture.

Skills:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Top Candidates will have:

• Four-year bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a Computer Science or Information Technology, or related field with 10+ years of experience
• Expertise with modern techniques for Language Understanding, Computer Vision, and other Machine Learning and AI technologies
• In-depth understand and expertise in one or more of the following: massive real-time event and message processing, data lakes, Big Data transformations and analytics, complex e-commerce applications, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL, and NoSQL data modeling.
• Architect for enterprise scale solutions in public cloud (AWS, Azure) and hybrid eco-systems for advanced analytics solutions
• Agile SDLC implementation in public cloud eco-system including environments management, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.

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Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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