Career Area:
Information Technology
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
At Caterpillar, a brand recognized the world over, your office could be closer than you ever realized. Caterpillar's highly flexible work environment fosters a culture to inspire unconventional ideas to accomplish remarkable results. With life demands ever-changing, Caterpillar provides employees the autonomy to choose their work location based on their daily commitments and how/where they work most efficiently and effectively. It's time to start building what matters most, your career!
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Job Purpose:
The Innovation and Emerging Technology Enterprise Architect will be accountable for managing the Emerging Technology incubation process for Enterprise Architecture (EA) as well as help improve the IT enabled innovation process across Caterpillar.
Description:
Job duties will be adapted to the recommendations of the currently ongoing Emerging Technology Workstream as part of the IT Strategy work. Employee may also be responsible for performing other job duties occasionally as assigned. Responsibilities of the job are:

• Manage the EA Emerging Technology process

• Conduct research to identify emerging technologies that have potential to unlock new value-added capabilities at Caterpillar
  • General research such as Gartner hype cycles, CEB emerging tech maturity spider diagram
  • Understand where Caterpillar is already internally experimenting with emerging technologies and for what business purpose
• Identify highest priority emerging technologies to focus on
  • Conduct Proof of Concepts or Proof of Technology experiments with a business partner on selected technologies to demonstrate business value and buy in to invest (typically Q2-Q3)
  • Secure funding for following year to pilot

• Improve the IT enabled innovation process
  • Manage and be the SME/trainer of effective innovation
    • Continuous improvement of the innovation handbook
    • Create additional accelerators that allow Caterpillar to innovate faster and better in IT enabled capabilities
    • Train key partners like Matrix Architects, Business Innovation Leaders or other targeted communities in best practices around innovation
• Effectively partner with Business, Federated IT and fellow EAs in the EA Emerging Technology incubation and innovation process

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in information technology.
• High intellectual curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and new business processes quickly.
• Solution design capability across the architecture stack (Solution Architecture experience)
  • Business/Process
  • Application
  • Information & integration (Data)
  • Technology (compute, storage, network, security, ...)

Top Candidate Will Also Have:

• Understanding of architecture stack across Caterpillar's diverse businesses.

• Team leadership, management preferred (employee or external/consultant). This does not need to be formal people leadership experience such as project Management where one has to lead people outside of their chain of command.
• Demonstrated excellent planning and organizational skills with an established track record of positively influencing change.
• Solid verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills. Ability to communicate to senior leaders as well as individual contributors of all levels.

Additional Details:

• Location: Dallas, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; East Peoria, Illinois
• Relocation is offered

Employee benefit details:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary, because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits [medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401(k)] along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details:
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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers
Relocation is available for this position.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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