Caterpillar, Inc

Autonomy Portfolio Analyst

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $192K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in portfolio and program analysis across complex digital environments
  • Strong knowledge of planning techniques and capability to link short-term activities with long-term goals
  • Superior ability to evaluate conflicting information and provide decision-relevant options
  • Proficiency in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information into executive insights
  • Experience with project management concepts related to governance and reporting
  • Ability to engage with various stakeholders effectively without direct authority
  • Strong written and visual communication skills for executive-level presentations

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a comprehensive cross-program view of the CI portfolio, tracking various project statuses and contexts.
  • Synthesize roadmap information to identify program interactions, dependencies, and potential gaps.
  • Prepare executive-level artifacts translating complex data into clear implications for decision-making.
  • Develop scenarios and trend analyses that guide prioritization and recommendations.
  • Analyze the impact of partner and supplier performance on portfolio milestones and risks.
  • Support integrated roadmap governance by ensuring traceability among various project elements.
  • Drive alignment on portfolio trade-offs, considering value, capacity, and incoming demands.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and volunteer days
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company contributions
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) options and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs
  • Tuition reimbursement and career development opportunities
  • Incentive bonuses and additional voluntary benefits
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The CI Portfolio Analyst turns fragmented program, roadmap, delivery, partner, supplier, customer-learning, and technical-review information into a coherent cross-program view for Atlas and the broader CI portfolio. This role maintains portfolio intelligence, synthesizes interactions and consequences across programs, develops scenarios and trend analysis, and prepares decision-ready roadmap and executive artifacts. The CI Portfolio Analyst supports the Senior Manager, Portfolio Management and Deputy Portfolio Manager by making cross-program implications visible without replacing authoritative source systems or assuming execution ownership that belongs to Product, TPMs, Mission Leads, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, partners, or the RTE.

What You Will Do:

  • Maintain the cross-program CI portfolio view, including active, planned, proposed, paused, stopped, and unresolved work, with clear source, ownership, milestone, and evidence context.
  • Synthesize portfolio roadmaps across Atlas and the broader CI remit, identifying program interactions, sequencing implications, shared capabilities, dependencies, gaps, and decision points.
  • Prepare concise executive portfolio artifacts that translate complex roadmap, delivery, capacity, risk, dependency, partner, supplier, and customer-learning information into clear implications and decisions.
  • Produce portfolio scenarios, trend analysis, and decision-impact views to support prioritization and start-stop-continue-defer recommendations.
  • Analyze how partner, supplier, procurement, customer-learning, demonstration, and technical-review outcomes affect portfolio milestones, roadmap choices, risks, and executive commitments.
  • Support integrated roadmap governance by maintaining traceability among Objectives, Customer Market Requirements, Epics, Features, Milestones, dependencies, baselines, forecasts, evidence, and controlled changes.
  • Help drive Intake alignment on value, capacity, affordability, and cross-program consequence analysis for incoming demand and portfolio tradeoffs.
  • Identify conflicting, incomplete, stale, or unsupported portfolio claims and preserve source differences until accountable owners resolve them.
  • Develop reusable analytical methods and portfolio to improve the consistency, traceability, and usefulness of executive reporting.
  • Support leadership reviews with clear fact patterns, options, consequences, open assumptions, and recommended areas for decision or deeper validation.

What You Will Have:

  • Planning: Tactical and Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and the ability to connect near-term program activity with multi-year roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, capacity, and business objectives.
  • Program and Portfolio Analysis: Ability to organize and interpret information across multiple complex digital programs, technical domains, workstreams, and source systems.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting information, distinguish fact from assumption, identify consequences, and frame decision-relevant options.
  • Data Analysis and Reporting: Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into credible trends, scenarios, executive insights, and fit-for-purpose reporting products.
  • Project and Portfolio Management: Knowledge of roadmap, milestone, dependency, RAID, change-control, governance, and benefits or value concepts used across complex portfolios.
  • Stakeholder Management: Ability to work across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Procurement, suppliers, partners, and program leadership without direct authority.
  • Written and Visual Communication: Ability to produce concise, structured, traceable, and executive-ready narratives, roadmaps, tables, and presentation materials.
  • Organizational and Systems Thinking: Ability to recognize interactions across programs and control surfaces, identify downstream effects, and avoid creating duplicate or disconnected reporting systems.

Top Candidates Will Have:

  • Experience performing portfolio, program, strategy, roadmap, business, or decision-support analysis across multiple technical programs or interdependent workstreams.
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize roadmap, milestone, capacity, risk, dependency, partner, supplier, and delivery information into clear cross-program implications.
  • Experience preparing executive portfolio reviews, scenarios, recommendations, and visual artifacts that support decisions rather than only summarize status.
  • Ability to preserve traceability to authoritative sources while identifying inconsistencies, gaps, assumptions, and unresolved ownership.
  • Experience with digital, autonomy, AI, connected-machine, software/platform, industrial technology, or similarly complex technical environments.
  • Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Power BI, Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Confluence, PPM, or comparable planning and reporting tools.
  • Experience with roadmap synthesis, portfolio trend analysis, prioritization scenarios, partner or supplier consequence analysis, or customer-learning integration.
  • Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, written communication, and the ability to move comfortably between working-team evidence and executive-level implications.
  • Ability to operate within clear accountability boundaries: the analyst integrates and interprets evidence but does not manufacture status, approve technical content, own source data, or operate the integrated execution plan.

Additional Details:

  • This position requires the candidate towork full-time onsite at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
  • Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
  • Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location,job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

  • 401(k) savings plans*

  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*

  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

  • Health Lifestyle Programs*

  • Employee Assistance Program*

  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

  • Career Development*

  • Incentive bonus*

  • Disability benefits

  • Life Insurance

  • Parental leave

  • Adoption benefits

  • Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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