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:
Global Information Services (GIS) Pricing and Merchandising Applications team is looking for a Senior IS Specialist who is a highly motivated, experienced, and disciplined individual to play a vital role in taking our solutions to the next level. This individual will be responsible for providing architect governance over Merchandising and Pricing solutions, interfaces, and infrastructure relating to pricing. Develop cohesive solutions that directly align to our technical roadmap while collaborating with the business partners to advance the Pricing and Merchandising business. Design (Requirements Definition, Functional Specs, and Test Scenarios), and vendor management of 3rd Party solution delivery, and Level 4 Support for the following applications: Pricing and Merchandising Data Lake, GCSS, WTCS, CPS, CPL and other interfacing applications.
Description:

• Define continuous improvement initiatives to drive operational excellence in system performance, data governance and excel in implementing analytic solutions.
• Maintain an integrated technical roadmap for Pricing and Merchandising applications.
• Provide proactive thought leadership and drive adoption of data technologies.
• Performing validation and sign-off of 3rd Party deliverables (i.e. coding, testing, documentation)
• Assist incoming business partner demand to maintain cohesive and proactive solutions.
• Provides project leadership, expert advice, and counsel to IT personnel, management, and project teams on the most complex aspects of applications programming and development methods that will be integrated with other systems (internally developed and/or purchased)
• Staying current on industry trends across data warehouse, cloud, and data analytic technologies.

• Provide leadership to team to drive clear functional/technical specifications and data requirements for solution development.
• Representing solution design in integrated design reviews prior to development hand-off
• Providing direction and clarity to resolve issues encountered with solution delivery
• Providing process / deep technical support to facilitate resolution of production incidents
• Ensuring change requests are appropriate and consistent with Pricing and Merchandising application roadmaps.
• Readily engage with Cat partners, GIS peers, and 3rd Party providers
• Providing weekly updates regarding status, risk, issues to BU and GIS leadership

Basic Requirements:

• 12+ years equivalent IT experience including time in data warehouse, cloud technologies, application development, data analytics and architecture roles.
• Strong communication skills with a team dynamic focus.
• Ability to drive results independently in a dynamic environment while collaborating across a matrixed organization.
• Knowledge of digital solutions, data architect standards and advance analytic technologies.

Top Candidate Will Also Have:

• Knowledge of digital solutions, data architect standards and advance analytic technologies.
• 5+ years' experience in corporate data warehouse including Snowflake, AWS, Azure platforms.
• 5+ years' experience data analytics including Tableau, Power BI
• 5+ years' experience in Program/Project Management or Agile methodologies working across cross functional teams on a global scale.

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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