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Job Description:

Join the Global Finance AI & Advanced Analytics organization and help shape how Caterpillar builds and deploys AI-powered solutions across Global Finance. As the Senior Manager, Internal Enterprise Analytics & AI Experience Gateway, you will serve as the enterprise architecture and platform owner for the Internal Enterprise Analytics and AI web application gateway solution.

This leader will be accountable for defining the end-to-end application, data, platform, and target architecture across the Azure cloud environment. The role will lead architecture strategy, technical design standards, roadmap development, and cross-functional alignment to ensure the solution delivers scalable, reliable, secure, and user-backed capabilities for the enterprise.

You'll partner with IT, business functions and product teams to ensure we're building an AI-enabled solution that is architecturally sound, scalable and aligned with where Global Finance is heading.   This role will have a direct impact on Caterpillar's Finance AI & Analytics strategy and the opportunity to drive impactful results.

What You Will Do:

• Lead and develop the platform team, setting direction and driving execution across strategic initiatives
• Lead architecture execution across initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery, effective stakeholder partnership, and strong resource coordination, including security access, compliance, and governance needs
• Design the application’s technical infrastructure, including orchestration layers, tool integrations, data retrieval patterns, testing approaches, and platform reliability
• Build a framework and execution plan to onboard segment- and division-specific applications into the platform
• Deliver self-service report and application management capabilities that improve usability and scalability for enterprise users
• Enable a reusable, report-and application-agnostic AI semantic layer to support analytics and AI solution deployment
• Improve enterprise platform CI/CD, maintainability, and long-term platform operability
• Modernize insight delivery by enabling the transition of key reporting workloads from traditional BI tools to AI-first experiences

Skills You Will Have:

• Effective Communication: Strong effective communication and the ability to effectively interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Organizational Leadership: Ability to lead teams through change, set clear direction, align work to business priorities, and create an environment of accountability, collaboration, and strong execution.
  • Makes sound decisions by bringing the right people together, weighing tradeoffs, and moving the team forward with clarity.
  • Builds team effectiveness through coaching, feedback, and support while maintaining a high bar for performance.
  • Turns strategy into clear priorities, plans, and deliverables for the team.
  • Clarifies roles, sets expectations, and drives accountability for results.

• Application Design: 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to design enterprise portal and self-service application experiences by combining strong technical architecture with user-centered design principles, including information architecture, intuitive navigation, role-based access workflows, and scalable experiences that improve usability, adoption, and governance alignment.
  • Ability to analyze system requirements and translate them into detailed design specifications.
  • Capability to troubleshoot complex design issues and provide innovative solutions, particularly related to data usage, application performance, and user experience.

• Architecture Optimization: Knowledge of Azure cloud architecture and deployment practices, including containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, security, and scalable platform operations that support enterprise applications and analytics experiences

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Deep experience designing and deploying AI-enabled enterprise reporting platforms or shared enablement capabilities, with strong architecture optimization using modern AI solution patterns such as LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), function calling, and orchestration
• Experience shaping user-centered enterprise application and portal experiences, including self-service workflows, intuitive navigation, role-based access experiences, and reusable semantic or shared service layers that improve usability, adoption, and consistency across reports, applications, and business domains
• Demonstrated depth across enterprise software engineering and architecture, with experience integrating complex systems, designing scalable platform patterns, and guiding technical direction across business domains
• Experience modernizing analytics and reporting ecosystems by transitioning from traditional BI delivery models to AI-first insight experiences and scalable enterprise platforms, while building solutions with governance, compliance, secure access, auditability, and enterprise control requirements in mind
• Proven ability to influence architecture direction at the organizational level by translating complex technical concepts into clear business value for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Track record of staying current with the rapidly evolving AI and analytics landscape and bringing practical, high-value recommendations to the organization

Additional Information:

• This position will have the option to be based out of our Global Headquarters in Irving, TX and Peoria, IL offices

Summary Pay Range:

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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