Enterprise Architect Manager

Career Area:

Business Technologies, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Enterprise Architect Manager

Job Summary

Creates the strategies, activities and manages staff responsible for emerging IT services architecture and design.

What You Will Do:

• Develop and implement the IT architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards in alignment with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, business leaders, and technical teams to define, design, and document IT solutions that meet emerging business requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms to identify opportunities for improvement, innovation, and cost optimization.
• Manage a team of IT architects, providing strategic leadership and guidance to achieve enterprise objectives.
  
  

What You Have:

• Strategy development & execution: Experience leading, developing, socializing, and executing IT strategies and roadmaps in an overly complex environment.
• Relationship management: Collaborating and managing partner and peer relationships to achieve business outcomes by leading through influence and direct accountability in a matrixed environment.
• Customer-focused: Strong business and financial acumen with a “customer back” mindset.
• Software engineering & development: Designing and building digital and technology solutions that strengthen the core business and pioneer the future with expanded offerings that grow services.
• Data & information enablement: Unleashing the power of data and information to manage the business, improve business results and outcomes.
• Talent Management: Adept at leading and inspiring global, multi-sourced teams to deliver high quality, transformational capabilities.
• Enterprise mindset: Demonstrate our values and act on behalf of the entire company.
• Customer-focused: Build solutions and solve problems by starting with the customer and working backwards.
• Accountability: Act as an owner of the company with high integrity and transparency.
• Curious: Seek to understand new opportunities and possibilities.
• Strategic: Think big and proactively anticipate capability needs.
• Results-oriented: Have a bias for action and take calculated risks to stay at par with the speed of business.
  
  

Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
• Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
• Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
  
  

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
  
  

Partnering for Customer Success: Knowledge of and insight into customers’ key objectives and ability to work and think alongside clients to achieve customers to achieve current and future aspirations and successes.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Customizes solutions to meet dynamic current and future needs using company's products, services and capabilities efficiently and effectively.
• Collaborates with internal and external experts and consultants to develop solutions that can add significant value to the enterprise.
• Partners with customers to respond to new business conditions or challenges using one's own expertise and capabilities with enthusiasm.
• Advises others on best practices to solve problems and improve the effectiveness of outcomes.
• Helps customers to reconstruct their perceptions about their current business to explore alternative solutions and increase success.
• Recommends improvements to current business processes.
  
  

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
  
  

Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
  
  

Organizational Change Mgmt.: Knowledge of techniques to successfully effect change in an organization and ability to manage the successful and smooth transition from current to desired culture, practices, structure, and overall organizational environment.

Level Expert:

• Coaches others in techniques for implementing change across multiple units or functions.
• Monitors industry for noteworthy changes and for examples of good change management.
• Directs the process of defining desired organizational traits, functions, and services.
• Champions importance of building commitment and allocating resources to make change happen.
• Shapes the design and implementation of transition strategies and communications campaigns.
• Leads in defining the organization's vision and mission.
  
  

Emerging Technologies: Knowledge of emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates best practices of emerging information technologies to learn and understand principles and applications.
• Evaluates business accuracy and productivity levels derived from information technology influences.
• Guides junior-level staff on the effective implementation of new information technologies within the organization.
• Determines long-term, strategic requirements for the design of information technologies.
• Monitors information technology users to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
• Resolves all technical and administrative problems that occur in the design, application and evaluation of information technology.
  
  

Enterprise Architecture (EA): Knowledge of enterprise architecture; ability to develop, communicate and control methods and models for business processes, information systems and infrastructure.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Shares experiences with creating or enhancing architectural models for one or more domains.
• Develops models and plans to drive forward the strategy and promote business performance improvement opportunities.
• Directs the discussion of issues and considerations for adopting a specific enterprise architecture.
• Discusses leading frameworks or providers of methods and tools for developing an enterprise architecture.
• Assesses and communicates the business costs, benefits, risks and issues for alternative architectural strategies.
• Consults on architectural integration and implementation issues, and their business implications.
  
  

Education:

• Degree or equivalent experience desired
  
  

What You Will Get -

• 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 benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.
• All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
  
  

Additional Info :

• The primary locations for this position are Peoria, IL, Dallas, TX or Nashville, TN
• This position requires you to work in the office three times a week, with some flexibility.
• Sponsorship is not available.
• Travel up to 25%.
  
  

About Caterpillar -

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Posting Dates:

July 22, 2024 - July 30, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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