JOB DESCRIPTION

Description

The selected candidate for this position will be a valuable team member accountable for the design, development, implementation, and support of new functionality within Caterpillar’s Global Warranty administration solutions. With Caterpillar’s growing focus on aftermarket services, the sale, management, and reporting of warranty services is playing an increasing role in meeting our aftermarket services goals, and in the design of high-quality products. 

This position will be responsible for evaluating and implementing proposed program changes or additions to Caterpillar’s warranty systems and programs. It will be assisting more experienced system development and support personnel in developing solutions to customer related requests and/or system problems. It will require the development of related program logic or integrating solutions into the systems or infrastructure after testing functions of developed programs or purchased software.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, code, test, and debug programs of varying degrees of complexity.

• Configuration or customization of purchased software solutions.

• Evaluates recommended software and/or program changes and their potential impact on the environment and execution results.

• Work on application/technical problem identification and resolution.

• Work independently on complex programs/subroutines under the direction of more experienced staff and assists in the development or configuration of major system modules and programs.

• Fully qualified to perform most programming assignments without close management.

• Fully knowledgeable of programming languages, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, testing, debugging and documentation.

• May perform integration tasks for in-house developed systems and/or purchased software solutions.

• Improves development and support processes.

Qualifications

 Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field or 5+ years of software development experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as an application developer using Java and JavaScript and ideally with multiple languages

 Top Candidates will also have:

• A strong understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Experience utilizing application programming interfaces for application integration such as SOAP
• Basic knowledge of cloud-based development processes (Amazon Web Services, Azure, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply to real world situations
• Ability to effectively and tactfully communicate orally and in writing
• Excellent planning and organization skills
• Strong analytical skills with ability to identify multiple approaches to problem solving and recommend the best solution
• Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects of different sizes
• Ability to work collaboratively in a complex, rapidly changing, and culturally diverse environment.
• Experience supporting IT-related business processes, security processes, etc.
• Basic web development skills including use of JQuery
• A working knowledge of java frames such as Hibernate and Spring

This is a remote working opportunity!

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant.  

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, 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