Lead Digital Architect

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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.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Lead Digital Architect to join our App Services for DT&D GCIO - CAT IT Division.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore - Caterpillar PSN / Chennai - WTC

This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule.

Shift Timing: 01:00-10:00PM IST

Position Title: Lead Architect

Job Location: Chennai or Bangalore

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.

Job description for Lead Architect with 15+ Years of Experience

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience in architecting large scale applications. Responsible for the high- and low-level design.
• Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in a multi-threaded, distributed environment.
• Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns.
• Manage applications source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle - implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions.
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure.
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output.

Required skills:

• More than 14 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, Liquibase/Flyway.
• Experience in providing technical solutions and architecture. Understand business requirements and provide high- and low-level designs.
• Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business.
• Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular frameworks.
• Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them.
• Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with a focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience of developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models
• Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing. Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.
• Experience with developing applications using Microservices with containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns.
• Ability to quickly learn modern technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective.
• A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
• Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos.
• Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc.
• Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions.
• Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS using AWS Cloudformation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana/Prometheus/Cloudwatch, API Gateway.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development.
• Experience with DevOps/security tools - Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc.
• An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices.
• Understanding of Rest, GraphQL, gRPC.
• Familiarity with two or more Databases - DB2, PostgreSQL etc.
• Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.).
• undefined Desired Skills: Experience with APIGee is a huge plus.Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.Experience working with corporate security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and remediation activities (Risk Acceptance, Security Configuration Baseline)Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.Experience in identifying security policies for cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS).Experience working with SonarQube, CodeQL, Rapid7, Artifactory/XRay, Fortify tools.

Skill Descriptors

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation. Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Level Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups. Application Design, Architecture: 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. Level Extensive Experience:
• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.
• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.
• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.
• Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.
• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications. Data Architecture: Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support. Level Extensive Experience:
• Monitors data architecture design processes (e.g. interface to data), in accordance with existing processes and standards.
• Recommends improvements to data architecture processes to ensure high quality of data architecture deliverables and consistency.
• Coordinates data architecture project resources to effectively achieve business goals.
• Guides junior data architects on considerations in the design of architecture building blocks.
• Anticipates any obstacles and makes plans accordingly to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully reflected in data architecture outcomes.
• Solves moderately complex issues in target data architecture design processes (e.g. data management process modeling, data entity matrix design). IT Architecture: Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations. Level Extensive Experience:
• Consults on planning, integrating and migrating IT architecture.
• Provides IT architecture solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Creates cohesive IT architecture applications for information and platforms.
• Oversees the compliance of IT architecture principles for an organization.
• Evaluates IT architecture standards and policies to learn its principles and practices.
• Directs the discussion of issues and considerations for adopting an open architecture. Platform Architecture: Knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes. Level Extensive Experience:
• Monitors the compliance of platform architecture processes and standards and alignment with business objectives.
• Guides less experienced platform architects on the techniques and approaches used in design processes.
• Advises others on providing high quality deliverables of platform architectural roadmaps to fully satisfy client needs.
• Recommends improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of platform modeling standard processes.
• Teaches cross-team technology members about their roles and responsibilities associated with allocating resources to various platforms.
• Resolves moderately complex issues that occur in platform modeling and roadmaps design processes. Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. Level Working Knowledge:
• Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis. Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives. Level Extensive Experience:
• Designs each phase in the target architectural process and selects corresponding portfolio of services to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully met.
• Monitors target architectural processes to ensure that they are in line with business strategies and objectives.
• Advises others on implementing quality assurance deliverables and estimated outcomes for target architecture.
• Guides less experienced architects in the processes involved in analyzing target architecture.
• Coordinates architectural resources to ensure that the future state of IT meets client requirements.
• Provides solutions to moderately complex architectural modeling problems and significant barriers encountered in the target architecture design process.

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